PhD Candidates
Rajesh Pillai
Rajesh develops integrated frequency combs that shrink LiDAR systems onto a single chip. His end-to-end design-to-packaging skill set is well matched to a photonics startup productizing solid-state LiDAR.
Details
- Advisor
- Dr. Eli Yablonovitch
- Field
- Photonics
- Institution
- University of California, Berkeley
- Skills
- Photonic Design (Lumerical)Cleanroom FabricationOptical CharacterizationPythonVerilog-APackaging
- Thesis
- Silicon nitride frequency combs for chip-scale LiDAR
- Transition Signals
- Internship at Voyant PhotonicsFiled first patent on comb stabilizationCo-authored with industry photonics engineers