2026 Barry Luther-Davies: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	95	1938	1841	51	50	850	31136

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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

1557
Citations
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

1114
Citations
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

760
Citations
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

718
Citations
Producing air-stable monolayers of phosphorene and their defect engineering

Jiajie Pei;Xin Gai;Jiong Yang;Xinbin Wang

557
Citations
Laser-induced microexplosion confined in the bulk of a sapphire crystal: evidence of multimegabar pressures

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

529
Citations
On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering

Ravi Pant;Christopher Poulton;Hannah MacFarlane;Luc Thevenaz

525
Citations
Laser-matter interaction in the bulk of a transparent solid: confined microexplosion and void formation

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

446
Citations
Ultrafast all-optical chalcogenide glass photonic circuits

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

429
Citations
Low-power, chip-based stimulated Brillouin scattering microwave photonic filter with ultrahigh selectivity

David Marpaung;Blair Morrison;Mattia Pagani;Ravi Pant

418
Citations
Materials for Spatial Solitons

Barry Luther-Davies;George I. Stegeman

346
Citations
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

340
Citations
Unconventional Magnetism in All-Carbon Nanofoam

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

340
Citations
Three dimensional bright spatial soliton collision and fusion in a saturable Nonlinear Medium.

Vladimir Tikhonenko;Jason Christou;Barry Luther-Davies

318
Citations
Ultrafast ablation with high-pulse-rate lasers. Part I: Theoretical considerations

Eugene G Gamaly;Andrei Rode;Barry Luther-Davies

298
Citations
Nonlinear light generation in topological nanostructures

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

278
Citations
Long, low loss etched As(2)S(3) chalcogenide waveguides for all-optical signal regeneration.

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

273
Citations
Photonic-chip-based radio-frequency spectrum analyser with terahertz bandwidth

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

258
Citations
Waveguides and Y junctions formed in bulk media by using dark spatial solitons.

Barry Luther-Davies;Yang Xiaoping

251
Citations
On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering

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

8
Citations