2026 Christophe Dorrer: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	50	4145	3984	1187	1092	359	8128

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2015 - OSA Fellows Christophe Dorrer University of Rochester, USA For the invention of methods and devices for the control and characterization of ultrafast optical pulses, with significant impact across a wide range of applications, from telecommunications to high-energy lasers.

Overview

Christophe Dorrer is affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States. Their research spans multiple topics primarily within the fields of Physics and Astronomy and Engineering.

The main fields of study include:

Physics and Astronomy
Engineering

Within these fields, subfields of study cover:

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Computational Mechanics
Mechanics of Materials

The research topics Christophe Dorrer focuses on are:

Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
Laser Material Processing Techniques
Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma
Solid State Laser Technologies
Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics

The scientist has a record of publications in various prominent venues, frequently contributing to:

Optics Express
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Optical Materials Express
Physics of Plasmas
Laser Congress 2021 (ASSL,LAC)

Among recent papers authored by or involving Christophe Dorrer are:

High-energy parametric amplification of spectrally incoherent broadband pulses, 2020, Optics Express
Broadband sum-frequency generation of spectrally incoherent pulses, 2021, Optics Express
Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields, 2023, Journal of Optics
MTW-OPAL: a technology development platform for ultra-intense optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification systems, 2021, High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Direct-drive laser fusion: status, plans and future, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Christophe Dorrer include:

J. Bromage
M. Spilatro
S.-W. Bahk
Jie Qiao
I. A. Begishev

The scientist received the OSA Fellows award in 2015, with a citation recognizing their invention of methods and devices for the control and characterization of ultrafast optical pulses, which have applications ranging from telecommunications to high-energy lasers.

Best Publications

Spectral resolution and sampling issues in Fourier-transform spectral interferometry

Christophe Dorrer;Nadia Belabas;Jean-Pierre Likforman;Manuel Joffre

679
Citations
Characterization of ultrashort electromagnetic pulses

Ian A. Walmsley;Christophe Dorrer

508
Citations
The role of dispersion in ultrafast optics

Ian Walmsley;Leon Waxer;Christophe Dorrer

280
Citations
Simultaneous temporal characterization of telecommunication optical pulses and modulators by use of spectrograms

Christophe Dorrer;Inuk Kang

196
Citations
Linear optical sampling

C. Dorrer;D.C. Kilper;H.R. Stuart;G. Raybon

179
Citations
Influence of the calibration of the detector on spectral interferometry

Christophe Dorrer

177
Citations
Technology development for ultraintense all-OPCPA systems

J. Bromage;S.-W. Bahk;I. A. Begishev;C. Dorrer

154
Citations
Interferometric technique for measuring broadband ultrashort pulses at the sampling limit

Ellen M. Kosik;Aleksander S. Radunsky;Ian A. Walmsley;Christophe Dorrer

149
Citations
High-contrast optical-parametric amplifier as a front end of high-power laser systems

C. Dorrer;I. A. Begishev;A. V. Okishev;J. D. Zuegel

147
Citations
Measurement of eye diagrams and constellation diagrams of optical sources using linear optics and waveguide technology

C. Dorrer;C.R. Doerr;I. Kang;R. Ryf

145
Citations
Single-shot real-time characterization of chirped-pulse amplification systems by spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction

C. Dorrer;B. de Beauvoir;C. Le Blanc;S. Ranc

143
Citations
Initial cone-in-shell fast-ignition experiments on OMEGAa)

W. Theobald;A. A. Solodov;C. Stoeckl;K. S. Anderson

136
Citations
Design and analysis of binary beam shapers using error diffusion

Christophe Dorrer;Jonathan D. Zuegel

129
Citations
RF spectrum analysis of optical signals using nonlinear optics

C. Dorrer;D.N. Maywar

125
Citations
Direct space–time characterization of the electric fields of ultrashort optical pulses

C. Dorrer;E. M. Kosik;I. A. Walmsley

122
Citations
Spatio-temporal characterization of the electric field of ultrashort optical pulses using two-dimensional shearing interferometry

C. Dorrer;E.M. Kosik;I.A. Walmsley

120
Citations
OMEGA EP high-energy petawatt laser: progress and prospects

D N Maywar;J H Kelly;L J Waxer;S F B Morse

119
Citations
Design, analysis and test of a microdots apodizer for the Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraph

P. Martinez;C. Dorrer;E. Aller Carpentier;M. Kasper

114
Citations
Accuracy criterion for ultrashort pulse characterization techniques: application to spectral phase interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction

Christophe Dorrer;Ian A. Walmsley

112
Citations
Design, analysis, and testing of a microdot apodizer for the Apodized Pupil Lyot Coronagraph

P. Martinez;P. Martinez;C. Dorrer;E. Aller Carpentier;M. Kasper

106
Citations