Quantum electronics, electro-optics, electronic devices, radio and optic
communication. Interest includes experimental and theoretical research
work.
Development of a high average power (1kW) Electrostatic Accelerator
Free Electron Laser operating at mm wavelengths. Presently funded by the
Israeli Ministries of Science and Security.
Application of high power Microwave and mm-IR radiation for industrial
processing and energy related use. Presently funded by the Ministry of
Science.
Experimental and theoretical study of mode competition, coherence
development and efficiency enhancement in a Free Electron Maser oscillator.
Presently funded by the Ministry of Defence.
Radiative energy beaming to atmospheric platforms (generators, transmission,
rectenas). Applications in communication.
Study of super-radiance and amplified spontaneous emission in FEL.
Electron beam interaction with electromagnetic waves, free electron
lasers, Cerenkov - Smith-Purcell free electron lasers, Stimulated Compton
Scattering, trapping of particles by laser beams.
Biological effects of THz-Radiation, funded by the EU ( in cooperation
with Prof. Rafi Korenstein).
Professor Avraham Gover has received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in
Physics from the Tel-Aviv University in Israel in 1968 and 1971 respectively.
He received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics (with minor in Electrical
Engineering) from Caltech in California, U.S.A. in 1975. Since 1977 he
has been a member of the Faculty of Engineering at Tel-Aviv University,
where he served in 1984-85 as the head of the Kranzberg Institute Electron
Devices research. He worked as a research assistant at Caltech during 1976
and as a guest Professor at Stanford Univ. (1983), U.C., Santa Barbara
(1985), and Brookhaven National Lab. (1985/86). He was a consultant to
Heliotech (Spectralab) in Sylmar (1972), Meret Electrooptics in Santa Monica
(1972-75) (both in California) and to the Naval Research Lab. in Washington,
DC through JAYCOR and S.A.I.C. (1978- 1986). In the years 1986/87 he worked
in Brookhaven Nat. Lab. Light Source, U.C., Santa Barbara and Science Application
International Corp. (SAIC). In July-Aug. 1990, he was hosted as an exchange
scholar in Japan by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and
the Institute of Laser Engineering of University of Osaka.
Professor Gover is a leading researcher in the field of Free Electron
Lasers, member of the International FEL executive committee, senior member
of IEEE and member of OSA. He is heading the Israeli Tandem FEL consortium
which demonstrated first FEL lasing on the Weizmann Institute Tandem electrostatic
accelerator. He is presently the head of the Israeli FEL Radiation user
