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D-Index
69
Citations
17360
World Ranking
967
National Ranking
26

Luc Thévenaz 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 Luc Thévenaz sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 530 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Luc Thévenaz 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 Luc Thévenaz sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 69 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to Brillouin-based fiber-optic sensors
  • 2011 - OSA Fellows For pioneering contributions to slow-light research and devices based on stimulated Brillouin scattering and for outstanding leadership and contributions to education.

Overview

Luc Thévenaz is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and physics, with significant contributions in electrical and electronic engineering, as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Thevenaz's work encompasses advanced fiber optic sensors, photonic and optical devices, and advanced fiber laser technologies. Other notable topics include mechanical and optical resonators, photonic crystal and fiber optics, semiconductor lasers and optical devices, and advanced optical sensing technologies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Optics Express
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • 27th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Nature Communications

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope of their research activity:

  • Observation of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Silicon Nitride Integrated Waveguides, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Genetic-optimised aperiodic code for distributed optical fibre sensors, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Study on the signal-to-noise ratio of Brillouin optical-time domain analyzers, 2020, Optics Express
  • Distributed optomechanical fiber sensing based on serrodyne analysis, 2021, Optica
  • On the 2D Post-Processing of Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis, 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology

Thevenaz has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Zhisheng Yang, Marcelo A. Soto, Fan Yang, Simon Zaslawski, and Malak Galal.

They have received several awards recognizing their contributions to their field:

  • IEEE Fellow, 2017, for contributions to Brillouin-based fiber-optic sensors
  • OSA Fellow, 2011, for pioneering contributions to slow-light research and devices based on stimulated Brillouin scattering and for leadership in education

Best Publications

  • Brillouin gain spectrum characterization in single-mode optical fibers

    M. Nikles;L. Thevenaz;P.A. Robert

  • Distributed fiber-optic temperature sensing for hydrologic systems

    John S. Selker;John S. Selker;Luc Thévenaz;Hendrik Huwald;Alfred Mallet

  • Observation of pulse delaying and advancement in optical fibers using stimulated Brillouin scattering

    Kwang Yong Song;Miguel González Herráez;Luc Thévenaz

  • Simple distributed fiber sensor based on Brillouin gain spectrum analysis

    Marc Niklès;Luc Thévenaz;Philippe A. Robert

  • On-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering

    Ravi Pant;Christopher Poulton;Hannah MacFarlane;Luc Thevenaz

  • Slow and fast light in optical fibres

    Luc Thévenaz

  • Modeling and evaluating the performance of Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensors

    Marcelo A. Soto;Luc Thévenaz

  • Wavelength modulation spectroscopy: combined frequency and intensity laser modulation

    Stéphane Schilt;Luc Thévenaz;Philippe Robert

  • Arbitrary-bandwidth Brillouin slow light in optical fibers

    Miguel González Herráez;Kwang Yong Song;Luc Thévenaz

  • Intensifying the response of distributed optical fibre sensors using 2D and 3D image restoration

    Marcelo A. Soto;Jaime A. Ramírez;Luc Thévenaz

  • Optically controlled slow and fast light in optical fibers using stimulated Brillouin scattering

    Miguel González-Herráez;Kwang-Yong Song;Luc Thévenaz

  • Simplex-coded BOTDA fiber sensor with 1 m spatial resolution over a 50 km range

    Marcelo A. Soto;Gabriele Bolognini;Fabrizio Di Pasquale;Luc Thévenaz

  • Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses of exceptional quality

    Marcelo A. Soto;Mehdi Alem;Mohammad Amin Shoaie;Armand Vedadi

  • Vector analysis of stimulated Brillouin scattering amplification in standard single-mode fibers

    Avi Zadok;Elad Zilka;Avishay Eyal;Luc Thévenaz

  • Effect of pulse depletion in a Brillouin optical time-domain analysis system.

    Luc Thévenaz;Stella Foaleng Mafang;Jie Lin

  • High Spatial and Spectral Resolution Long-Range Sensing Using Brillouin Echoes

    Stella M Foaleng;Moshe Tur;Jean-Charles Beugnot;Luc Thevenaz

  • Distributed sensing using stimulated Brillouin scattering : towards ultimate resolution

    A. Fellay;Luc Thévenaz;M. Facchini;M. Niklès

  • Going beyond 1000000 resolved points in a Brillouin distributed fiber sensor: theoretical analysis and experimental demonstration

    Andrey Denisov;Marcelo A Soto;Luc Thévenaz

  • Distributed shape sensing using Brillouin scattering in multi-core fibers

    Zhiyong Zhao;Marcelo A. Soto;Ming Tang;Luc Thévenaz

  • Long optically controlled delays in optical fibers.

    Kwang Yong Song;Miguel González Herráez;Luc Thévenaz

  • Highly efficient Brillouin slow and fast light using As(2)Se(3) chalcogenide fiber.

    Kwang Yong Song;Kazi S. Abedin;Kazuo Hotate;Miguel González Herráez

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcelo A. Soto
Marcelo A. Soto Federico Santa María Technical University
Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez
Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez University of Alcalá
Kwang Yong Song
Kwang Yong Song Chung-Ang University
Moshe Tur
Moshe Tur Tel Aviv University
Thibaut Sylvestre
Thibaut Sylvestre Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Salvador Sales
Salvador Sales Universitat Politècnica de València
Avi Zadok
Avi Zadok Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Sonia Martin-Lopez
Sonia Martin-Lopez University of Alcalá
José Capmany
José Capmany Universitat Politècnica de València
Fritz Vollrath
Fritz Vollrath University of Oxford

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