Peter Bienstman

17.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
277 papers, 12.4k citations indexed

About

Peter Bienstman is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Bienstman has authored 277 papers receiving a total of 12.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 262 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 131 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 98 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Peter Bienstman's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (203 papers), Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (96 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (78 papers). Peter Bienstman is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (203 papers), Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (96 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (78 papers). Peter Bienstman collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and United Kingdom. Peter Bienstman's co-authors include Roel Baets, Wim Bogaerts, Dirk Taillaert, Dries Van Thourhout, Katrien De Vos, Tom Claes, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Pieter Dumon, Joni Dambre and Roel Baets and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Peter Bienstman

258 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Silicon microring resonators

2011 1.8k citations Wim Bogaerts, Katrien De Vos et al. profile →
Nanophotonic waveguides in silicon-on-insulator fabricated with CMOS technology

2005 657 citations Wim Bogaerts, Pieter Dumon et al. Journal of Lightwave Technology profile →
Silicon-on-Insulator microring resonator for sensitive and label-free biosensing

2007 640 citations Katrien De Vos, Peter Bienstman et al. Optics Express profile →
Experimental demonstration of reservoir computing on a silicon photonics chip

2014 561 citations Joni Dambre, Peter Bienstman et al. profile →
Grating Couplers for Coupling between Optical Fibers and Nanophotonic Waveguides

2006 533 citations Dirk Taillaert, Frederik Van Laere et al. profile →
An out-of-plane grating coupler for efficient butt-coupling between compact planar waveguides and single-mode fibers

2002 453 citations Dirk Taillaert, Wim Bogaerts et al. profile →
Emerging opportunities and challenges for the future of reservoir computing

2024 125 citations Peter Bienstman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Bienstman Belgium	51	11.2k	6.4k	2.8k	2.1k	1.5k	277	12.4k
Roel Baets Belgium	67	19.0k 1.7×	12.2k 1.9×	1.4k 0.5×	3.5k 1.7×	2.3k 1.5×	735	20.9k
Wim Bogaerts Belgium	60	15.4k 1.4×	9.2k 1.4×	2.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	398	16.4k
Tom Baehr‐Jones United States	42	8.2k 0.7×	3.8k 0.6×	3.2k 1.1×	929 0.4×	384 0.3×	134	9.0k
Oskar Painter United States	71	15.4k 1.4×	19.2k 3.0×	3.8k 1.4×	3.2k 1.5×	1.3k 0.8×	194	21.3k
Valerio Pruneri Spain	49	4.8k 0.4×	3.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	2.0k 1.0×	244 0.2×	238	8.4k
Dries Van Thourhout Belgium	70	17.9k 1.6×	10.9k 1.7×	1.5k 0.5×	3.3k 1.6×	1.9k 1.2×	604	19.3k
Masaya Notomi Japan	59	11.1k 1.0×	11.8k 1.8×	1.2k 0.4×	4.0k 1.9×	1.8k 1.2×	351	14.2k
Ali Adibi United States	45	4.2k 0.4×	3.6k 0.6×	398 0.1×	2.7k 1.3×	403 0.3×	351	7.0k
Yikai Su China	43	6.3k 0.6×	4.1k 0.6×	609 0.2×	1000 0.5×	301 0.2×	517	7.8k
Volker J. Sorger United States	40	6.6k 0.6×	4.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	6.1k 2.9×	865 0.6×	268	9.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Bienstman

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Vrielinck, Henk, Hannes Rijckaert, Klaartje De Buysser, et al.. (2025). A Pathway for the Integration of Novel Ferroelectric Thin Films on Non-Planar Photonic Integrated Circuits. Micromachines. 16(3). 334–334. 1 indexed citations

Biasi, Stefano, et al.. (2025). Reservoir Computing with All‐Optical Non‐Fading Memory in a Self‐Pulsing Microresonator Network. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(11). 2 indexed citations

Sackey, Isaac, et al.. (2024). Neuromorphic reservoir for nonlinear optical signal equalization. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 35–35. 1 indexed citations

Bienstman, Peter, et al.. (2024). Surrogate gradient learning in spiking networks trained on event-based cytometry dataset. Optics Express. 32(9). 16260–16260. 1 indexed citations

Bienstman, Peter, et al.. (2024). Use of a Simple Passive Hardware Mask to Replace the Digital Masking Procedure in Photonic Delay-Based Reservoir Computing. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 31(3: AI/ML Integrated Opto). 1–12.

Dambre, Joni, et al.. (2023). Improving the Classification Accuracy in Label-Free Flow Cytometry Using Event-Based Vision and Simple Logistic Regression. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 29(2: Optical Computing). 1–8. 8 indexed citations

Bienstman, Peter, et al.. (2022). Transfer learning for photonic delay‐based reservoir computing to compensate parameter drift. Nanophotonics. 12(5). 949–961. 4 indexed citations

Bogris, Adonis, et al.. (2022). High-speed photonic neuromorphic computing using recurrent optical spectrum slicing neural networks. Communications Engineering. 1(1). 32 indexed citations

Carrillo, Santiago, Emanuele Gemo, Peter Bienstman, et al.. (2021). System-Level Simulation for Integrated Phase-Change Photonics. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 39(20). 6392–6402. 11 indexed citations

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Katumba, Andrew, Xin Yin, Joni Dambre, & Peter Bienstman. (2019). A Neuromorphic Silicon Photonics Nonlinear Equalizer For Optical Communications With Intensity Modulation and Direct Detection. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 37(10). 2232–2239. 46 indexed citations

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Sciamanna, Marc, Andrew Katumba, Matthias Freiberger, et al.. (2018). All-Optical Reservoir Computing on a Photonic Chip Using Silicon-Based Ring Resonators. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 24(6). 1–8. 81 indexed citations

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Martens, Dries S., Ayssar A. Elamin, Ana Belén González‐Guerrero, et al.. (2018). A low-cost integrated biosensing platform based on SiN nanophotonics for biomarker detection in urine. Analytical Methods. 10(25). 3066–3073. 40 indexed citations

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Freiberger, Matthias, Andrew Katumba, Peter Bienstman, & Joni Dambre. (2018). Training Passive Photonic Reservoirs With Integrated Optical Readout. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 30(7). 1943–1953. 26 indexed citations

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Katumba, Andrew, et al.. (2018). Neuromorphic Computing Based on Silicon Photonics and Reservoir Computing. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 24(6). 1–10. 35 indexed citations

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Vanderleyden, Els, et al.. (2014). Functionalization of nanophotonic silicon-on-insulator biosensor chips for real-time DNA detection. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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Baets, Roel, Pieter Dumon, Wim Bogaerts, et al.. (2007). Silicon Photonics. 2 indexed citations

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Bienstman, Peter, et al.. (2006). Extensions of the complex Jacobi iteration to simulate photonic wavelength scale components. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 533. 1 indexed citations

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Bienstman, Peter, Bert Luyssaert, & Roel Baets. (2004). Analytic expressions for transmission and reflection from semi-infinite photonic crystal waveguides. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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Bogaerts, Wim, Peter Bienstman, & Roel Baets. (2002). Out-of-plane scattering at sidewall roughness in photonic crystal slabs.. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 79–82. 1 indexed citations

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Taillaert, Dirk, Wim Bogaerts, Peter Bienstman, D. De Zutter, & Roel Baets. (2001). Design of an out-of-plane coupler for efficient butt-coupling from photonic crystal waveguides to single-mode fibers. Third in a series of Workshops on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures (PECS 3), Edited by Thomas F Krauss, 9-14 June 2001, St. Andrews, UK.. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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