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L.E. Nelson

L.E. Nelson

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
45
Citations
12759
World Ranking
3458
National Ranking
1276

L.E. Nelson publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where L.E. Nelson sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 200 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

L.E. Nelson D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where L.E. Nelson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Best Publications

  • Space-division multiplexing in optical fibres

    D. J. Richardson;J. M. Fini;L. E. Nelson

  • 77-fs pulse generation from a stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber ring laser

    K Tamura;E P Ippen;H A Haus;L E Nelson

  • Ultrashort-pulse fiber ring lasers

    L.E. Nelson;D.J. Jones;K. Tamura;H.A. Haus

  • Stretched-pulse additive pulse mode-locking in fiber ring lasers: theory and experiment

    H.A. Haus;K. Tamura;L.E. Nelson;E.P. Ippen

  • Polarization-Mode Dispersion

    Herwig Kogelnik;Robert M. Jopson;Lynn E. Nelson

  • Broadly tunable sub‐500 fs pulses from an additive‐pulse mode‐locked thulium‐doped fiber ring laser

    L. E. Nelson;E. P. Ippen;H. A. Haus

  • Measurement of second-order polarization-mode dispersion vectors in optical fibers

    R.M. Jopson;L.E. Nelson;H. Kogelnik

  • Soliton versus nonsoliton operation of fiber ring lasers

    K. Tamura;L. E. Nelson;H. A Haus;E. P. Ippen

  • Technique for obtaining high-energy ultrashort pulses from an additive-pulse mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser.

    K. Tamura;C. R. Doerr;L. E. Nelson;H. A. Haus

  • 64-Tb/s, 8 b/s/Hz, PDM-36QAM Transmission Over 320 km Using Both Pre- and Post-Transmission Digital Signal Processing

    Xiang Zhou;Jianjun Yu;Ming-Fang Huang;Yin Shao

  • Probability densities of second-order polarization mode dispersion including polarization dependent chromatic fiber dispersion

    G.J. Foschini;L.E. Nelson;R.M. Jopson;H. Kogelnik

  • High Spectral Efficiency 400 Gb/s Transmission Using PDM Time-Domain Hybrid 32–64 QAM and Training-Assisted Carrier Recovery

    Xiang Zhou;L. E. Nelson;P. Magill;R. Isaac

  • Joint Digital Signal Processing Receivers for Spatial Superchannels

    M. D. Feuer;L. E. Nelson;X. Zhou;S. L. Woodward

  • Efficient frequency doubling of a femtosecond fiber laser.

    L E Nelson;S B Fleischer;G Lenz;E P Ippen

  • Spatial Superchannel Routing in a Two-Span ROADM System for Space Division Multiplexing

    L. E. Nelson;M. D. Feuer;K. Abedin;X. Zhou

  • Rate-adaptable optics for next generation long-haul transport networks

    Xiang Zhou;L. E. Nelson;P. Magill

  • 64-Tb/s (640×107-Gb/s) PDM-36QAM transmission over 320km using both pre- and post-transmission digital equalization

    Xiang Zhou;Jianjun Yu;Ming-Fang Huang;Yin Shao

  • 32Tb/s (320×114Gb/s) PDM-RZ-8QAM transmission over 580km of SMF-28 ultra-low-loss fiber

    Xiang Zhou;Jianjun Yu;Ming-Fang Huang;Yin Shao

  • The statistics of PMD-induced chromatic fiber dispersion

    G.J. Foschini;R.M. Jopson;L.E. Nelson;H. Kogelnik

  • 8 450-Gb/s, 50-GHz-spaced, PDM-32QAM transmission over 400km and one 50GHz-grid ROADM

    X. Zhou;L. Nelson;P. Magill;R. Isaac

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Jopson
Robert M. Jopson Nokia (United States)
Peter J. Winzer
Peter J. Winzer Nokia (United States)
Hoon Kim
Hoon Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Lars Gruner-Nielsen
Lars Gruner-Nielsen Technical University of Denmark
Kavita Ramanan
Kavita Ramanan Brown University

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