2026 Frank W. Wise: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	103	1484	1406	779	726	610	42552

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Research.com Recognitions

2010 - OSA Fellows For pioneering contribution to ultrafast nonlinear waves, the first observation of solitons that are trapped in both time and space, and self-similar pulses in lasers.
2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to nonlinear optical wave propagation, including the demonstration of selfsimilar pulse evolution in a laser and the generation of spacetime solitons and also for leading the development of leadchalcogenide semiconductor nanocrystals

Overview

Frank W. Wise is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their primary research domains include physics and astronomy, with significant contributions to engineering as well. The scientist's work spans several subfields such as atomic and molecular physics, optics, electrical and electronic engineering, biophysics, biomedical engineering, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

The main research topics covered by their publications include:

Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
Optical Network Technologies
Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
Nonlinear Photonic Systems

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

Optics Letters
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of the Optical Society of America B
Biomedical Optics Express

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Frank W. Wise include:

"Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields" (2023), Journal of Optics
"Direct observations of thermalization to a Rayleigh-Jeans distribution in multimode optical fibres" (2022), Nature Physics
"Physics of highly multimode nonlinear optical systems" (2022), Nature Physics
"Nonlinear multimode photonics: nonlinear optics with many degrees of freedom" (2022), Optica
"Generation of 1 µJ and 40 fs pulses from a large mode area gain-managed nonlinear amplifier" (2020), Optics Letters

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers including:

Pavel Sidorenko
Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Yihao Chen
Henry Haig
Nicholas Bender

Frank W. Wise has received recognition through awards such as:

Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) in 2010, for contributions to nonlinear optical wave propagation including the demonstration of self-similar pulse evolution and the generation of spacetime solitons as well as for work on lead-chalcogenide semiconductor nanocrystals
OSA Fellow in 2010, for pioneering contributions to ultrafast nonlinear waves, observation of solitons trapped in time and space, and self-similar pulses in lasers

Best Publications

Water-Soluble Quantum Dots for Multiphoton Fluorescence Imaging in Vivo

Daniel R. Larson;Warren R. Zipfel;Rebecca M. Williams;Stephen W. Clark

3001
Citations
In vivo three-photon microscopy of subcortical structures within an intact mouse brain

Nicholas G. Horton;Ke Wang;Demirhan Kobat;Catharine G. Clark

1645
Citations
Lead Salt Quantum Dots: the Limit of Strong Quantum Confinement

Frank W. Wise

1501
Citations
Self-similar evolution of parabolic pulses in a laser.

F. Ö. Ilday;J. R. Buckley;W. G. Clark;F. W. Wise

1073
Citations
Spatiotemporal optical solitons

Boris A Malomed;Dumitru Mihalache;Frank Wise;Lluis Torner

1053
Citations
All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser

Chin Yu Chong;Joel Buckley;Frank Wise

1044
Citations
Electronic structure and optical properties of PbS and PbSe quantum dots

Inuk Kang;Frank W. Wise

957
Citations
Airy–Bessel wave packets as versatile linear light bullets

Andy Chong;William H. Renninger;Demetrios N. Christodoulides;Frank W. Wise

707
Citations
Electron injection from colloidal PbS quantum dots into titanium dioxide nanoparticles.

Byung-Ryool Hyun;Yu-Wu. Zhong;Adam C. Bartnik;Liangfeng Sun

677
Citations
High-energy femtosecond fiber lasers based on pulse propagation at normal dispersion

Frank W. Wise;Andy Chong;William H. Renninger

658
Citations
Optical Properties of Colloidal PbSe Nanocrystals

Hui Du;Chialing Chen;Rishikesh Krishnan;Todd D. Krauss

616
Citations
Recent advances in fibre lasers for nonlinear microscopy

C. Xu;F. W. Wise

586
Citations
Bright infrared quantum-dot light-emitting diodes through inter-dot spacing control

Liangfeng Sun;Joshua J. Choi;David Stachnik;Adam C. Bartnik

557
Citations
All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser with pulse energy above 20 nJ.

Andy Chong;William H Renninger;Frank W Wise

553
Citations
Dissipative solitons in normal-dispersion fiber lasers

W. H. Renninger;A. Chong;F. W. Wise

545
Citations
Highly nonlinear As-S-Se glasses for all-optical switching.

J. M. Harbold;F. Ö. Ilday;F. W. Wise;J. S. Sanghera

521
Citations
Properties of normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber lasers

Andy Chong;William H. Renninger;Frank W. Wise

488
Citations
PbSe nanocrystal excitonic solar cells.

Joshua J. Choi;Yee-Fun Lim;Mitk’El B. Santiago-Berrios;Matthew Oh

485
Citations
Generation of Optical Spatiotemporal Solitons

X. Liu;L. J. Qian;F. W. Wise

440
Citations
All-Normal-Dispersion Femtosecond Fiber Laser

Andy Chong;Joel R. Buckley;Will H. Renninger;Frank W. Wise

418
Citations