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Optica

2334-2536

Published by: Optical Society of America

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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 22 154 292 51

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 604
Documents by Best Scientists*: 650
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 29
SCIMAGO H-index: 159
SCIMAGO SJR: 3.08
Impact Factor: 8.5

Top Publications

  • Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability

    Mian Zhang;Cheng Wang;Prashanta Kharel;Di Zhu

    (2021)
    415 Citations
  • Toward the next-generation VR/AR optics: a review of holographic near-eye displays from a human-centric perspective.

    Chenliang Chang;Kiseung Bang;Gordon Wetzstein;Byoungho Lee

    (2020)
    410 Citations
  • Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with 98% system detection efficiency at 1550 nm

    Dileep V. Reddy;Robert R. Nerem;Sae Woo Nam;Richard P. Mirin

    (2020)
    351 Citations
  • Freeform optics for imaging

    Jannick P. Rolland;Matthew A. Davies;Thomas J. Suleski;Chris Evans

    (2021)
    344 Citations
  • Ultrabroadband nonlinear optics in nanophotonic periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides

    Marc Jankowski;Carsten Langrock;Boris Desiatov;Alireza Marandi

    (2020)
    322 Citations
  • Hybrid integration methods for on-chip quantum photonics

    Je-Hyung Kim;Shahriar Aghaeimeibodi;Jacques Carolan;Dirk Englund

    (2020)
    261 Citations
  • Large-scale optical phased array using a low-power multi-pass silicon photonic platform

    Steven A. Miller;You Chia Chang;Christopher T. Phare;Min Chul Shin

    (2020)
    260 Citations
  • Electrically injected GeSn lasers on Si operating up to 100 K

    Yiyin Zhou;Yuanhao Miao;Solomon Ojo;Huong Tran

    (2020)
    204 Citations
  • Antireflection temporal coatings

    Victor Pacheco-Peña;Nader Engheta

    (2020)
    173 Citations
  • Single-photon imaging over 200 km

    Zheng-Ping Li;Jun-Tian Ye;Xin Huang;Peng-Yu Jiang

    (2021)
    151 Citations

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