2026 Mark A. Foster: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	48	3021	2897	1135	1058	259	13140

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Mark A. Foster is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Biomedical Engineering as key subfields.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, such as:

Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
Photonic and Optical Devices
Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies
Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
Mechanical and Optical Resonators
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security

Mark A. Foster has contributed to a range of recent publications, including:

"Lidar Light Scattering Augmentation (LISA): Physics-based Simulation of Adverse Weather Conditions for 3D Object Detection," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Unclonable photonic keys hardened against machine learning attacks," 2020, APL Photonics
"Compressed sensing in photonics: tutorial," 2022, Journal of the Optical Society of America B
"Uncertainty-aware Mean Teacher for Source-free Unsupervised Domain Adaptive 3D Object Detection," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Niobium-tantalum oxide as a material platform for linear and nonlinear integrated photonics," 2022, Optics Express

The frequent co-authors in their research include:

Velat Kilic
Amy C. Foster
Neil MacFarlane
Milad Alemohammad
Jasper R. Stroud

They have published repeatedly in key venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Optics Express
Review of Scientific Instruments
Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics 2020 (Translational, Microscopy, OCT, OTS, BRAIN)

Mark A. Foster received the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award in 2014, recognizing contributions during their career.

Best Publications

CMOS-compatible multiple-wavelength oscillator for on-chip optical interconnects

Jacob S. Levy;Alexander Gondarenko;Mark A. Foster;Amy C. Turner-Foster

1355
Citations
Broad-band optical parametric gain on a silicon photonic chip

Mark A. Foster;Amy C. Turner;Jay E. Sharping;Bradley S. Schmidt

1188
Citations
Silicon-chip-based ultrafast optical oscilloscope.

Mark A. Foster;Reza Salem;David F. Geraghty;Amy C. Turner-Foster

588
Citations
Signal regeneration using low-power four-wave mixing on silicon chip

Reza Salem;Mark A. Foster;Amy C. Turner;David F. Geraghty

512
Citations
Nonlinear optics in photonic nanowires

Mark A. Foster;Amy C. Turner;Michal Lipson;Alexander L. Gaeta

509
Citations
Tailored anomalous group-velocity dispersion in silicon channel waveguides

Amy C. Turner;Christina Manolatou;Bradley S. Schmidt;Michal Lipson

490
Citations
Generation of correlated photons in nanoscale silicon waveguides.

Jay E. Sharping;Kim Fook Lee;Mark A. Foster;Amy C. Turner

463
Citations
Broad-band continuous-wave parametric wavelength conversion in silicon nanowaveguides

Mark A. Foster;Amy C. Turner;Reza Salem;Michal Lipson

441
Citations
Harmonic generation in silicon nitride ring resonators.

Jacob S. Levy;Mark A. Foster;Alexander L. Gaeta;Michal Lipson

380
Citations
Ultra-low power parametric frequency conversion in a silicon microring resonator

Amy C Turner;Mark A Foster;Alexander L Gaeta;Michal Lipson

363
Citations
Application of space–time duality to ultrahigh-speed optical signal processing

Reza Salem;Mark A. Foster;Alexander L. Gaeta

325
Citations
Second-Harmonic Generation in Silicon Nitride Ring Resonators

Jacob S. Levy;Mark A. Foster;Alexander L. Gaeta;Michal Lipson

311
Citations
Modelocking and femtosecond pulse generation in chip-based frequency combs.

Kasturi Saha;Yoshitomo Okawachi;Bonggu Shim;Jacob S. Levy

309
Citations
All-optical switching on a silicon chip.

Vilson R. Almeida;Carlos A. Barrios;Roberto R. Panepucci;Michal Lipson

290
Citations
Optimal waveguide dimensions for nonlinear interactions.

M. A. Foster;K. D. Moll;Alexander L. Gaeta

280
Citations
Ultrashort free-carrier lifetime in low-loss silicon nanowaveguides

Amy C. Turner-Foster;Mark A. Foster;Jacob S. Levy;Carl B. Poitras

266
Citations
Ultrabroadband supercontinuum generation in a CMOS-compatible platform

R. Halir;Y. Okawachi;J. S. Levy;M. A. Foster

255
Citations
Silicon-based monolithic optical frequency comb source.

Mark A. Foster;Jacob S. Levy;Onur Kuzucu;Kasturi Saha

250
Citations
Optical time lens based on four-wave mixing on a silicon chip

Reza Salem;Mark A Foster;Amy C Turner;David F Geraghty

244
Citations
A Silicon-Based Monolithic Optical Frequency Comb Source

Mark A. Foster;Jacob S. Levy;Onur Kuzucu;Kasturi Saha

225
Citations
All-optical slow-light on a photonic chip

Yoshitomo Okawachi;Mark A. Foster;Jay E. Sharping;Alexander L. Gaeta

217
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michal Lipson Columbia University

Keren Bergman Columbia University

Alexei P. Sokolov University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Jacob B. Khurgin Johns Hopkins University

Benjamin G. Lee Nvidia (United States)

Roderic P. Quirk University of Akron

Charles F. Majkrzak National Institute of Standards and Technology

Timothy J. Bunning United States Air Force Research Laboratory

K.T. Ramesh Johns Hopkins University

Ian Manners University of Victoria

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