Sergio Pinna

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Sergio Pinna is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Sergio Pinna has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 32 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 8 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Sergio Pinna's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (57 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (55 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (49 papers). Sergio Pinna is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (57 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (55 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (49 papers). Sergio Pinna collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Sergio Pinna's co-authors include Antonella Bogoni, Paolo Ghelfi, Filippo Scotti, Francesco Laghezza, Giovanni Serafino, Daniel Onori, Emma Lazzeri, Claudio Porzi, Mirco Scaffardi and Valeria Vercesi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nano Energy and Optics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Sergio Pinna

78 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

A fully photonics-based coherent radar system 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 250 500 750
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.

  1. A fully photonics-based coherent radar system
    2014 791 citations Paolo Ghelfi, Francesco Laghezza et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sergio Pinna Italy 17 1.6k 1.1k 179 94 87 84 1.7k
Jonathan Klamkin United States 22 1.8k 1.1× 970 0.9× 60 0.3× 112 1.2× 30 0.3× 197 1.9k
P.R. Herczfeld United States 18 1.3k 0.8× 768 0.7× 42 0.2× 39 0.4× 130 1.5× 202 1.5k
Feifei Yin China 23 1.5k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 60 0.3× 40 0.4× 85 1.0× 182 1.6k
Peng Yao United States 16 959 0.6× 650 0.6× 21 0.1× 30 0.3× 84 1.0× 61 1.1k
Yi‐Jen Chiu Taiwan 21 1.2k 0.7× 662 0.6× 23 0.1× 31 0.3× 23 0.3× 179 1.3k
Mial E. Warren United States 19 845 0.5× 609 0.5× 57 0.3× 23 0.2× 28 0.3× 69 1.0k
Mirco Scaffardi Italy 16 1.5k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 144 0.8× 54 0.6× 73 0.8× 111 1.6k
Duanni Huang United States 22 1.9k 1.2× 1.1k 1.0× 35 0.2× 285 3.0× 7 0.1× 72 2.0k
Leif Johansson United States 24 2.5k 1.6× 1.4k 1.2× 43 0.2× 87 0.9× 11 0.1× 213 2.6k
P Juodawlkis United States 21 1.5k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 49 0.3× 61 0.6× 7 0.1× 141 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sergio Pinna

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sergio Pinna

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sergio Pinna. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sergio Pinna based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sergio Pinna. Sergio Pinna is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pintus, Paolo, Leonardo Ranzani, Sergio Pinna, et al.. (2022). An integrated magneto-optic modulator for cryogenic applications. Nature Electronics. 5(9). 604–610. 41 indexed citations
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Pinna, Sergio, et al.. (2020). Analysis and Monolithic Implementation of Differential Transimpedance Amplifiers. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 38(16). 4409–4418. 8 indexed citations
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Pinna, Sergio, Junqian Liu, Thomas Meißner, et al.. (2020). Analog Coherent Detection for Energy Efficient Intra-Data Center Links at 200 Gbps Per Wavelength. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 39(2). 520–531. 54 indexed citations
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Pinna, Sergio, et al.. (2019). High-Power Integrated Indium Phosphide Transmitter for Free-Space Optical Communications. 2 indexed citations
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Pintus, Paolo, Zeyu Zhang, Sergio Pinna, et al.. (2019). Characterization of heterogeneous InP-on-Si optical modulators operating between 77 K and room temperature. APL Photonics. 4(10). 12 indexed citations
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Dwivedi, Sarvagya, Sergio Pinna, Renan Moreira, et al.. (2018). Multicore Fiber Link With SiN Integrated Fan-Out and InP Photodiode Array. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 30(22). 1921–1924. 12 indexed citations
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Zhao, Hongwei, et al.. (2018). Indium Phosphide Photonic Integrated Circuits for Free Space Optical Links. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 24(6). 1–6. 54 indexed citations
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Zhao, Hongwei, et al.. (2018). Integrated Indium Phosphide Transmitter for Free Space Optical Link. Advanced Photonics 2018 (BGPP, IPR, NP, NOMA, Sensors, Networks, SPPCom, SOF). ITu4B.6–ITu4B.6. 4 indexed citations
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Song, Bowen, Cristian Stagarescu, Sergio Pinna, et al.. (2015). 3D integrated hybrid silicon laser. 1–3. 7 indexed citations
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Ghelfi, Paolo, Francesco Laghezza, Filippo Scotti, et al.. (2015). Fully photonics-based radar demonstrator: concept and field trials. Optical Fiber Communication Conference. M3E.6–M3E.6. 4 indexed citations
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Ghelfi, Paolo, Francesco Laghezza, Filippo Scotti, et al.. (2014). A fully photonics-based coherent radar system. Nature. 507(7492). 341–345. 791 indexed citations breakdown →
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Scotti, Filippo, Francesco Laghezza, Giovanni Serafino, et al.. (2014). In-Field Experiments of the First Photonics-Based Software-Defined Coherent Radar. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 32(20). 3365–3372. 36 indexed citations
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Parca, Giorgia, Sergio Pinna, Giannis Giannoulis, et al.. (2014). Experimental Analysis of an All-Optical Packet Router. Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. 6(7). 629–629. 5 indexed citations
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Bogoni, Antonella, et al.. (2013). Optical switching matrix as time domain demultiplexer in photonic ADC. CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies). 41–44. 4 indexed citations
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Porzi, Claudio, Giovanni Serafino, Sergio Pinna, et al.. (2013). Review on SOA-MZI-based photonic add/drop and switching operations. Frontiers of Optoelectronics. 6(1). 67–77.
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Ghelfi, Paolo, Francesco Laghezza, Filippo Scotti, et al.. (2013). Photonic generation and independent steering of multiple RF signals for software defined radars. Optics Express. 21(19). 22905–22905. 19 indexed citations
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Bogoni, Antonella, Paolo Ghelfi, Francesco Laghezza, et al.. (2013). PHODIR: Photonics-based fully digital radar system. CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies). 25–28. 4 indexed citations
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Pinna, Sergio, Claudio Porzi, G. Contestabile, & Antonella Bogoni. (2012). Broadband Operation of High-Speed All-Optical Gated Wavelength Shifter. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 24(17). 1546–1548. 2 indexed citations
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Amaya, N., Georgios Zervas, Reza Nejabati, et al.. (2012). Defragmentation and grooming on 85.4 Gb/s by simultaneous format and wavelength conversion in an integrated quad SOA-MZI. CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies). 13. 1–6. 4 indexed citations

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