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20132025
most citedOutlook for inverse design in nanophotonics

1.7k citations · 3.9k across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

physics.optics2025

Coherent lidar for ride-hailing autonomous vehicles

Alexander Y. Piggott, Cathy Yunshan Jiang, John Lam +2

Coherent lidars promise a number of advantages over traditional time-of-flight lidars for autonomous vehicles. These include the direct measurement of target approach velocities vi…

physics.app-ph2020★ 1 cited

Understanding the physics of coherent LiDAR

Alexander Y. Piggott

Coherent LiDAR (Light Detecting And Ranging) is a promising 3D imaging technology that provides significant advantages over more traditional LiDAR systems. In addition to being imm…

physics.app-ph2020★ 397 cited

A universal 3D imaging sensor on a silicon photonics platform

Christopher Rogers, Alexander Y. Piggott, David J. Thomson +9

Accurate 3D imaging is essential for machines to map and interact with the physical world. While numerous 3D imaging technologies exist, each addressing niche applications with var…

physics.optics2020★ 1 cited

On the fundamental limitations of imaging with evanescent waves

Alexander Y. Piggott, Logan Su, Jan Petykiewicz +1

There has been significant interest in imaging and focusing schemes that use evanescent waves to beat the diffraction limit, such as those employing negative refractive index mater…

physics.app-ph2019

Inverse-designed photonics for semiconductor foundries

Alexander Y. Piggott, Eric Y. Ma, Logan Su +7

Silicon photonics is becoming a leading technology in photonics, displacing traditional fiber optic transceivers in long-haul and intra-data-center links and enabling new applicati…

physics.app-ph2018★ 167 cited

Inverse-Designed Diamond Photonics

Constantin Dory, Dries Vercruysse, Ki Youl Yang +10

Diamond hosts optically active color centers with great promise in quantum computation, networking, and sensing. Realization of such applications is contingent upon the integration…