Christopher V. Poulton
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About
Christopher V. Poulton is a pioneering researcher in the field of integrated silicon photonics, with a primary focus on developing compact, high-performance coherent LiDAR systems for autonomous vehicles and robotics. His most significant contribution is the demonstration of the first fully integrated coherent LiDAR system, achieved through a novel 3D integration of silicon photonics with 65nm CMOS technology. This breakthrough, published in 2019 and garnering 53 citations, successfully combined a high-performance optical phased array with custom electronics on a single chip, enabling eye-safe 1550nm ranging demonstrations. Poulton’s work directly addresses the critical need for tiny, reliable, and affordable LiDAR sensors, as highlighted in his 2023 article that frames the technology’s potential to reduce the 1.3 million annual traffic deaths worldwide. By proving that coherent LiDAR can be miniaturized onto a chip using wafer-scale manufacturing, he has laid the foundation for next-generation sensing in self-driving cars and robots, moving the field from bulky, expensive systems toward practical, mass-producible solutions.
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- 1Fully Integrated Coherent LiDAR in 3D-Integrated Silicon Photonics/65nm CMOS53 citations · 2019
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