World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
120
Citations
61006
World Ranking
804
National Ranking
436

Overview

Kerry J. Vahala is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. The scientist's research predominantly spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering, with significant contributions in the subfields of Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, alongside Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their work covers several key topics, including advanced fiber laser technologies, photonic and optical devices, mechanical and optical resonators, advanced fiber optic sensors, advanced photonic communication systems, semiconductor lasers and optical devices, and laser-matter interactions and applications.

Recent publications by Kerry J. Vahala include:

  • Optical frequency combs: Coherently uniting the electromagnetic spectrum, 2020, Science
  • Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs, 2020, Nature
  • Ultra-efficient frequency comb generation in AlGaAs-on-insulator microresonators, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Earth rotation measured by a chip-scale ring laser gyroscope, 2020, Nature Photonics
  • Petermann-factor sensitivity limit near an exceptional point in a Brillouin ring laser gyroscope, 2020, Nature Communications

Kerry J. Vahala frequently collaborates with several researchers including:

  • Lue Wu
  • John E. Bowers
  • Heming Wang
  • Boqiang Shen
  • Warren Jin

The scientist has published extensively in notable venues such as:

  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Optica
  • Nature Photonics

Best Publications

  • Ultra-high-Q toroid microcavities on a chip

    T.J. Kippenberg;D.K. Armani;S.M. Spillane;K.J. Vahala

  • Optical microcavities : Photonic technologies

    Kerry J. Vahala

  • Cavity Optomechanics: Back-Action at the Mesoscale

    Tobias J. Kippenberg;Kerry J. Vahala

  • Optomechanical Crystals

    Matt Eichenfield;Jasper Chan;Ryan M. Camacho;Kerry J. Vahala

  • Label-Free, Single-Molecule Detection with Optical Microcavities

    Andrea M. Armani;Rajan P. Kulkarni;Scott E. Fraser;Richard C. Flagan

  • Ultralow-threshold Raman laser using a spherical dielectric microcavity

    S. M. Spillane;T. J. Kippenberg;K. J. Vahala

  • Observation of critical coupling in a fiber taper to a silica-microsphere whispering-gallery mode system

    Ming Cai;Oskar Painter;Kerry J. Vahala

  • Dynamical thermal behavior and thermal self-stability of microcavities

    T. Carmon;Lan Yang;K.J. Vahala

  • Observation of strong coupling between one atom and a monolithic microresonator

    Takao Aoki;Barak Dayan;E. Wilcut;W. P. Bowen;W. P. Bowen

  • Cavity Opto-Mechanics

    Tobias J. Kippenberg;Kerry J. Vahala

  • An optical-frequency synthesizer using integrated photonics

    Daryl T. Spencer;Tara E. Drake;Travis C. Briles;Travis C. Briles;Jordan R. Stone;Jordan R. Stone

  • Analysis of Radiation-Pressure Induced Mechanical Oscillation of an Optical Microcavity

    T. J. Kippenberg;H. Rokhsari;T. Carmon;Axel Scherer

  • Microresonator soliton dual-comb spectroscopy

    Myoung-Gyun Suh;Qi-Fan Yang;Ki Youl Yang;Xu Yi

  • Ideality in a fiber-taper-coupled microresonator system for application to cavity quantum electrodynamics.

    S. M. Spillane;T. J. Kippenberg;O. J. Painter;K. J. Vahala

  • Kerr-nonlinearity optical parametric oscillation in an ultrahigh-Q toroid microcavity

    T. J. Kippenberg;S. M. Spillane;K. J. Vahala

  • A picogram- and nanometre-scale photonic-crystal optomechanical cavity

    Matt Eichenfield;Ryan Camacho;Jasper Chan;Kerry J. Vahala

  • Chemically etched ultrahigh-Q wedge-resonator on a silicon chip

    Hansuek Lee;Tong Chen;Jiang Li;Ki Youl Yang

  • Radiation pressure cooling of a micromechanical oscillator using dynamical backaction.

    Albert Schliesser;Pascal Del'Haye;Nima Nooshi;K. J. Vahala

  • Optical microcavities

    K.J. Vahala

  • Handbook of stochastic methods for physics, chemistry and the natural sciences

    K. Vahala

Frequent Co-Authors

Tobias J. Kippenberg
Tobias J. Kippenberg École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Scott A. Diddams
Scott A. Diddams University of Colorado Boulder
Scott B. Papp
Scott B. Papp National Institute of Standards and Technology
Amnon Yariv
Amnon Yariv California Institute of Technology
Namkyoo Park
Namkyoo Park Seoul National University
Roberto Paiella
Roberto Paiella Boston University
Lan Yang
Lan Yang Washington University in St. Louis
Oskar Painter
Oskar Painter California Institute of Technology
Harry A. Atwater
Harry A. Atwater California Institute of Technology
Richard C. Flagan
Richard C. Flagan California Institute of Technology

External Links

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Kerry J. Vahala

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles