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53
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10117
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3421
National Ranking
19

Liam O'Faolain publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Liam O'Faolain sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 332 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Liam O'Faolain D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Liam O'Faolain sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Liam O'Faolain is affiliated with the Tyndall National Institute in Ireland. Their research activity spans multiple fields, particularly engineering and physics and astronomy, with a significant emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering as well as atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

The scientist's work is concentrated on topics including photonic and optical devices, photonic crystals and their applications, spectroscopy and laser applications, advanced fiber laser technologies, semiconductor lasers and optical devices, advanced fiber optic sensors, and mechanical and optical resonators.

Frequent publication venues for Liam O'Faolain include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications
  • Sensors
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nanophotonics

Among recent papers, some notable titles are:

  • "Unlocking the monolithic integration scenario: optical coupling between GaSb diode lasers epitaxially grown on patterned Si substrates and passive SiN waveguides," 2023, Light Science & Applications
  • "High-Q asymmetrically cladded silicon nitride 1D photonic crystals cavities and hybrid external cavity lasers for sensing in air and liquids," 2022, Nanophotonics
  • "Integration of Edge-Emitting Quantum Dot Lasers with Different Waveguide Platforms using Micro-Transfer Printing," 2023, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
  • "Tuning of Graphene-Based Optical Devices Operating in the Near-Infrared," 2021, Applied Sciences
  • "A dual-functionality metalens to shape a circularly polarized optical vortex or a second-order cylindrical vector beam," 2021, Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications

Liam O'Faolain frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including:

  • Simone Iadanza
  • Bernhard Lendl
  • Artem S. Vorobev
  • Marco Grande
  • Maria V. Kotlyar

Best Publications

  • Green light emission in silicon through slow-light enhanced third-harmonic generation in photonic-crystal waveguides

    Bill Corcoran;Christelle Monat;Christian Grillet;David J Moss

  • Systematic design of flat band slow light in photonic crystal waveguides.

    Juntao Li;Thomas P. White;Liam O'Faolain;Alvaro Gomez-Iglesias

  • Compact Focusing Grating Couplers for Silicon-on-Insulator Integrated Circuits

    F. Van Laere;T. Claes;J. Schrauwen;S. Scheerlinck

  • Chemical sensing in slotted photonic crystal heterostructure cavities

    A. Di Falco;L. O’Faolain;T. F. Krauss

  • Slow light enhancement of nonlinear effects in silicon engineered photonic crystal waveguides

    Christelle Monat;Bill Corcoran;Majid Ebnali-Heidari;Christian Grillet

  • Light scattering and Fano resonances in high-Q photonic crystal nanocavities

    M. Galli;S. L. Portalupi;M. Belotti;L. C. Andreani

  • Ultracompact and low-power optical switch based on silicon photonic crystals

    Daryl M. Beggs;Thomas P. White;Liam O'Faolain;Thomas F. Krauss

  • Dispersion engineered slow light in photonic crystals: A comparison

    S.A. Schulz;Liam O'Faolain;Daryl M. Beggs;Thomas White

  • Optical signal processing on a silicon chip at 640Gb/s using slow-light

    Bill Corcoran;Christelle Monat;Mark Pelusi;Christian Grillet

  • Tunable Delay Lines in Silicon Photonics: Coupled Resonators and Photonic Crystals, a Comparison

    A. Melloni;A. Canciamilla;C. Ferrari;F. Morichetti

  • Self-collimating photonic crystal polarization beam splitter

    V Zabelin;L A Dunbar;N Le Thomas;R Houdré

  • Loss engineered slow light waveguides

    Liam O'Faolain;Sebastian Andreas Schulz;Daryl Matthew Beggs;Tom P White

  • High-speed modulation of a compact silicon ring resonator based on a reverse-biased pn diode.

    FY Gardes;A Brimont;P Sanchis;G Rasigade

  • Slow Light Enhanced Nonlinear Optics in Silicon Photonic Crystal Waveguides

    C. Monat;B. Corcoran;D. Pudo;M. Ebnali-Heidari

  • Planar photonic crystal cavities with far-field optimization for high coupling efficiency and quality factor.

    Simone L. Portalupi;Matteo Galli;Christopher Reardon;Thomas Krauss

  • Dependence of extrinsic loss on group velocity in photonic crystal waveguides.

    Liam O’Faolain;Thomas P. White;David O’Brien;Xiaodong Yuan

  • Four-wave mixing in slow light engineered silicon photonic crystal waveguides

    C Monat;M Ebnali-Heidari;C Grillet;B Corcoran

  • Slow-light enhanced correlated photon pair generation in a silicon photonic crystal waveguide.

    C. Xiong;Christelle Monat;Alex S. Clark;Christian Grillet

  • Dispersion control and slow light in slotted photonic crystal waveguides

    A. Di Falco;L. O’Faolain;T. F. Krauss

  • Integrated optical auto-correlator based on third-harmonic generation in a silicon photonic crystal waveguide

    Christelle Monat;Christelle Monat;Christian Grillet;Christian Grillet;Matthew Collins;Alex Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas F. Krauss
Thomas F. Krauss University of York
Thomas P. White
Thomas P. White Australian National University
Benjamin J. Eggleton
Benjamin J. Eggleton University of Sydney
Christelle Monat
Christelle Monat École Centrale de Lyon
Bill Corcoran
Bill Corcoran Monash University
David J. Moss
David J. Moss Swinburne University of Technology
Lucio Claudio Andreani
Lucio Claudio Andreani University of Pavia
Graham T. Reed
Graham T. Reed University of Southampton
Frederic Y. Gardes
Frederic Y. Gardes University of Southampton
David J. Thomson
David J. Thomson University of Southampton

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