2026 Miles J. Padgett: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	134	492	474	49	47	690	71543

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Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Rumford Medal, Royal Society (UK) for world leading research on optical orbital momentum including an angular form of the Einstein-Padolsky-Rosen paradox
2017 - Max Born Award, Optical Society
2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
2013 - SPIE Fellow
2012 - OSA Fellows For experimental and theoretical advances in the interplay of orbital and spin angular momentum of light and its interaction with matter.
2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Miles J. Padgett is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily within the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering. Within these main domains, their work focuses on subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Acoustics and Ultrasonics, Biomedical Engineering, Instrumentation, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's topics of research include diverse areas related to optical science and technologies. These topics are:

Random lasers and scattering media
Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies
Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
Digital Holography and Microscopy
Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
Quantum Information and Cryptography

Miles J. Padgett has contributed to numerous publications, with several frequent co-authors collaborating on their work:

Simon Peter Mekhail (22 collaborations)
Graham M. Gibson (16 collaborations)
Osian Wolley (15 collaborations)
Thomas Gregory (15 collaborations)
Steven Johnson (11 collaborations)

Their work appears in a variety of scientific venues, with the most frequent publication outlets including:

Scientific Reports (11 publications)
arXiv (Cornell University) (10 publications)
Optics Express (8 publications)
Research Square (5 publications)
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (4 publications)

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Miles J. Padgett include:

Single-pixel imaging 12 years on: a review, 2020, Optics Express
Time-of-flight 3D imaging through multimode optical fibers, 2021, Science
Roadmap on structured waves, 2023, Journal of Optics
Quantum imaging with a photon counting camera, 2022, Scientific Reports
How many photons does it take to form an image?, 2020, Applied Physics Letters

Awards and honors received by Miles J. Padgett include:

Rumford Medal, Royal Society (UK), 2019, for world leading research on optical orbital momentum including an angular form of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox
Max Born Award, Optical Society, 2017
Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2014
SPIE Fellow, 2013
OSA Fellow, 2012, for experimental and theoretical advances in the interplay of orbital and spin angular momentum of light and its interaction with matter
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2001

Best Publications

Orbital angular momentum: origins, behavior and applications

Alison M. Yao;Miles J. Padgett

3254
Citations
Free-space information transfer using light beams carrying orbital angular momentum

Graham Gibson;Johannes Courtial;Miles J. Padgett;Mikhail Vasnetsov

2961
Citations
Tweezers with a twist

Miles J. Padgett;Richard Bowman

2079
Citations
High-capacity millimetre-wave communications with orbital angular momentum multiplexing

Yan Yan;Guodong Xie;Martin P. J. Lavery;Hao Huang

1484
Citations
Measuring the orbital angular momentum of a single photon.

Jonathan Leach;Miles J. Padgett;Stephen M. Barnett;Sonja Franke-Arnold

1367
Citations
Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner.

N. B. Simpson;K. Dholakia;L. Allen;M. J. Padgett

1367
Citations
Roadmap on structured light

Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop;Andrew Forbes;Michael V Berry;Mark R Dennis

1366
Citations
IV The Orbital Angular Momentum of Light

L. Allen;L. Allen;M.J. Padgett;M. Babiker

1310
Citations
Efficient sorting of orbital angular momentum states of light.

Gregorius C. G. Berkhout;Martin P. J. Lavery;Johannes Courtial;Marco W. Beijersbergen

1152
Citations
Intrinsic and extrinsic nature of the orbital angular momentum of a light beam.

A. T. O'Neil;I. MacVicar;L. Allen;M. J. Padgett

1140
Citations
Optical Angular Momentum

L. Allen;Stephen M. Barnett;Miles J. Padgett

1094
Citations
Advances in optical angular momentum

Sonja Franke-Arnold;Les Allen;Miles Padgett

1044
Citations
Detection of a Spinning Object Using Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum

Martin P. J. Lavery;Fiona C. Speirits;Stephen M. Barnett;Miles J. Padgett

972
Citations
3D computational imaging with single-pixel detectors.

B. Sun;M. P. Edgar;R. Bowman;R. Bowman;L. E. Vittert

917
Citations
Singular optics: optical vortices and polarization singularities

Mark R. Dennis;Kevin O'Holleran;Miles J. Padgett

877
Citations
Orbital angular momentum 25 years on [Invited]

Miles J. Padgett

862
Citations
Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum

Miles Padgett;Johannes Courtial;Les Allen

783
Citations
Real-time imaging of methane gas leaks using a single-pixel camera.

Graham M. Gibson;Baoqing Sun;Matthew P. Edgar;David B. Phillips

220
Citations
Detection of a spinning object using lights orbital angular momentum

Martin P.J. Lavery;Fiona C. Speirits;Stephen M. Barnett;Miles J. Padgett

9
Citations
Electromagnetic Force and Momentum

Masud Mansuripur

0
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