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95
Citations
31136
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1938
National Ranking
51

Barry Luther-Davies publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barry Luther-Davies sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 850 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Barry Luther-Davies D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barry Luther-Davies sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 95 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - OSA Fellows For outstanding pioneering contributions to laser physics and nonlinear optical materials, including nonlinear optics, laser material processing, and laser-produced plasmas and plasma diagnostics.
  • 1986 - Pawsey Medal, Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Barry Luther-Davies is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research spans significant contributions in the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering, and General Health Professions.

The core topics of their work include:

  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications

Their recent papers showcase research in advanced photonics and nonlinear optics, including:

  • "High-Harmonic Generation from Resonant Dielectric Metasurfaces Empowered by Bound States in the Continuum" (2022), ACS Photonics
  • "Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a low-loss germanium-on-silicon waveguide" (2021), APL Photonics
  • "Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in silicon-germanium all-normal dispersion waveguides" (2020), Optics Letters
  • "Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a varying dispersion waveguide for multi-species gas spectroscopy" (2022), IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
  • "High-Harmonic Generation in Dielectric Metasurfaces Empowered by Bound States in the Continuum" (2020), Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Frequent collaborators in these research efforts include Christelle Monat, Christian Grillet, Alberto Della Torre, Milan Sinobad, and Rémi Armand.

The primary venues for their publications are:

  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2020 (IPR, NP, NOMA, Networks, PVLED, PSC, SPPCom, SOF)
  • ACS Photonics
  • APL Photonics
  • Optics Letters

Barry Luther-Davies has been recognized with awards including the OSA Fellows honor in 2006 for contributions to laser physics, nonlinear optical materials, and plasma diagnostics. They also received the Pawsey Medal from the Australian Academy of Science in 1986.

Best Publications

  • Dark optical solitons: physics and applications

    Yuri S. Kivshar;Barry Luther-Davies

  • Ablation of solids by femtosecond lasers: ablation mechanism and ablation thresholds for metals and dielectrics

    Eugene G Gamaly;Andrei Rode;Barry Luther-Davies;Vladimir T Tikhonchuk

  • Ablation of solids by femtosecond lasers: ablation mechanism and ablation thresholds for metals and dielectrics

    E. G. Gamaly;A. V. Rode;V. T. Tikhonchuk;B. Luther-Davies

  • Generation of 5-fs pulses and octave-spanning spectra directly from a Ti:sapphire laser

    R. Ell;U. Morgner;F. X. Kärtner;J. G. Fujimoto

  • Producing air-stable monolayers of phosphorene and their defect engineering

    Jiajie Pei;Xin Gai;Jiong Yang;Xinbin Wang

  • Laser-induced microexplosion confined in the bulk of a sapphire crystal: evidence of multimegabar pressures

    S. Juodkazis;K. Nishimura;S. Tanaka;H. Misawa

  • On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering

    Ravi Pant;Christopher Poulton;Hannah MacFarlane;Luc Thevenaz

  • Laser-matter interaction in the bulk of a transparent solid: confined microexplosion and void formation

    Eugene G. Gamaly;Saulius Juodkazis;Koichi Nishimura;Hiroaki Misawa

  • Ultrafast all-optical chalcogenide glass photonic circuits

    Vahid G. Ta’eed;Neil J. Baker;Libin Fu;Klaus Finsterbusch

  • Low-power, chip-based stimulated Brillouin scattering microwave photonic filter with ultrahigh selectivity

    David Marpaung;Blair Morrison;Mattia Pagani;Ravi Pant

  • Materials for Spatial Solitons

    Barry Luther-Davies;George I. Stegeman

  • Supercontinuum generation in dispersion engineered highly nonlinear (γ = 10 /W/m) As_2S_3 chalcogenide planar waveguide

    Michael R E Lamont;Barry Luther-Davies;Duk-Yong Choi;Steve Madden

  • Unconventional Magnetism in All-Carbon Nanofoam

    Andrei Rode;Eugene G Gamaly;Andrew Christy;John Fitz Gerald

  • Three dimensional bright spatial soliton collision and fusion in a saturable Nonlinear Medium.

    Vladimir Tikhonenko;Jason Christou;Barry Luther-Davies

  • Ultrafast ablation with high-pulse-rate lasers. Part I: Theoretical considerations

    Eugene G Gamaly;Andrei Rode;Barry Luther-Davies

  • Nonlinear light generation in topological nanostructures

    Sergey Kruk;Alexander Poddubny;Alexander Poddubny;Alexander Poddubny;Daria Smirnova;Daria Smirnova;Lei Wang

  • Long, low loss etched As(2)S(3) chalcogenide waveguides for all-optical signal regeneration.

    Steve Madden;Duk-Yong Choi;Douglas Bulla;Andrei Rode

  • Photonic-chip-based radio-frequency spectrum analyser with terahertz bandwidth

    Mark Pelusi;Feng Luan;Trung D. Vo;Michael R. E. Lamont

  • Waveguides and Y junctions formed in bulk media by using dark spatial solitons.

    Barry Luther-Davies;Yang Xiaoping

  • On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering

    Ravi Pant;Christopher G. Poulton;Duk-Yong Choi;Enbang Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Steve Madden
Steve Madden Australian National University
Benjamin J. Eggleton
Benjamin J. Eggleton University of Sydney
Andrei Rode
Andrei Rode Australian National University
Marek Samoc
Marek Samoc Wrocław University of Science and Technology
David J. Moss
David J. Moss Swinburne University of Technology
Mark Pelusi
Mark Pelusi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Wieslaw Krolikowski
Wieslaw Krolikowski Australian National University
Mark G. Humphrey
Mark G. Humphrey Australian National University
Yuri S. Kivshar
Yuri S. Kivshar Australian National University
Christelle Monat
Christelle Monat École Centrale de Lyon

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