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Engineering and Technology
Denmark
2026

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Engineering and Technology

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87
Citations
24455
World Ranking
341
National Ranking
6

Physics

D-Index
87
Citations
24521
World Ranking
2481
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2016 - OSA Fellows Ole Bang Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark For outstanding contributions to the understanding of nonlocal solitons and supercontinuum generation, as well as for seminal contributions to polymer optical fibers and their application in sensing.

Overview

Ole Bang is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark and has a research background primarily in engineering and physics and astronomy. Their work crosses multiple specialized subfields, including electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, spectroscopy, and computational mechanics.

The scientist's research focuses heavily on topics related to photonic crystal and fiber optics, advanced fiber laser technologies, and advanced fiber optic sensors. Additional areas of interest include photonic and optical devices, semiconductor lasers and optical devices, optical network technologies, and spectroscopy and laser applications.

Ole Bang has published extensively, with some of the frequent publication venues being Optics Letters, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Sensors, Optics Express, and Scientific Reports. These venues reflect a focus on laser technology, optics, sensing technologies, and applied physics.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Ole Bang are:

  • Recent advances in supercontinuum generation in specialty optical fibers [Invited], 2021, Journal of the Optical Society of America B
  • Shot-noise limited, supercontinuum-based optical coherence tomography, 2021, Light Science & Applications
  • Fourier transform spectrometer based on high-repetition-rate mid-infrared supercontinuum sources for trace gas detection, 2021, Optics Express
  • All-fibre supercontinuum laser for in vivo multispectral photoacoustic microscopy of lipids in the extended near-infrared region, 2020, Photoacoustics
  • High pulse energy and quantum efficiency mid-infrared gas Raman fiber laser targeting CO2 absorption at 4.2  µm, 2020, Optics Letters

Frequent collaborators of Ole Bang include Getinet Woyessa, Christian Petersen, Christos Markos, Abubakar I. Adamu, and Niels Møller Israelsen, each having contributed to multiple publications in partnership with Ole Bang.

In recognition of their work, Ole Bang received the OSA Fellows award in 2016 for contributions to the understanding of nonlocal solitons and supercontinuum generation, as well as research on polymer optical fibers and their applications in sensing.

Best Publications

  • Mid-infrared supercontinuum covering the 1.4–13.3 μm molecular fingerprint region using ultra-high NA chalcogenide step-index fibre

    Christian Rosenberg Petersen;Uffe Visbech Møller;Irnis Kubat;Binbin Zhou

  • Collapse arrest and soliton stabilization in nonlocal nonlinear media.

    Ole Bang;Wieslaw Krolikowski;John Wyller;Jens Juul Rasmussen

  • Bendable, low-loss Topas fibers for the terahertz frequency range

    Kristian Nielsen;Henrik K. Rasmussen;Aurèle J. L. Adam;Paul C. M. Planken

  • Modulational instability in nonlocal nonlinear Kerr media.

    Wieslaw Krolikowski;Ole Bang;Jens Juul Rasmussen;John Wyller

  • Modulational instability, solitons and beam propagation in spatially nonlocal nonlinear media

    W Królikowski;O Bang;N I Nikolov;D Neshev

  • Photonic crystal fiber long-period gratings for biochemical sensing.

    Lars Rindorf;Jesper B Jensen;Martin Dufva;Lars Hagsholm Pedersen

  • Solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media: Exact solutions

    Wiesław Królikowski;Ole Bang

  • Selective detection of antibodies in microstructured polymer optical fibers

    Jesper B. Jensen;Poul E. Hoiby;Grigoriy Emiliyanov;Ole Bang

  • Observation of attraction between dark solitons.

    Alexander Dreischuh;Alexander Dreischuh;Dragomir N. Neshev;Dan E. Petersen;Ole Bang

  • Hybrid photonic-crystal fiber

    Christos Markos;John C. Travers;Amir Abdolvand;Benjamin J. Eggleton

  • Ring vortex solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media

    D. Briedis;D.E. Petersen;W. Krolikowski;D. Edmundson

  • Real-time high-resolution mid-infrared optical coherence tomography.

    Niels M. Israelsen;Christian R. Petersen;Ajanta Barh;Deepak Jain

  • Humidity insensitive TOPAS polymer fiber Bragg grating sensor

    Wu Yuan;Lutful Khan;David J. Webb;Kyriacos Kalli

  • Hollow-core fibers for high power pulse delivery

    Mattia Michieletto;Jens K. Lyngsø;Christian Jakobsen;Jesper Lægsgaard

  • Highly sensitive refractometer with a photonic-crystal-fiber long-period grating

    Lars Henning Rindorf;Ole Bang

  • Temperature insensitive hysteresis free highly sensitive polymer optical fiber Bragg grating humidity sensor

    Getinet Woyessa;Kristian Nielsen;Alessio Stefani;Christos Markos

  • Attraction of nonlocal dark optical solitons

    Nikola I. Nikolov;Dragomir Neshev;Wieslaw Królikowski;Ole Bang

  • Highly sensitive refractometer with photonic crystal fiber long-period grating

    Lars Rindorf;Ole Bang

  • Localized Biosensing with Topas Microstructured Polymer Optical Fiber

    Grigoriy Andreev Emiliyanov;Jesper Bo Jensen;Ole Bang;Poul Erik Hoiby

  • Multi-milliwatt mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a suspended core chalcogenide fiber

    Uffe Visbech Møller;Yi Yu;Irnis Kubat;Christian Rosenberg Petersen

  • Generic features of modulational instability in nonlocal Kerr media.

    John Wyller;Wieslaw Krolikowski;Ole Bang;Jens Juul Rasmussen

Frequent Co-Authors

Wieslaw Krolikowski
Wieslaw Krolikowski Australian National University
Christos Markos
Christos Markos Technical University of Denmark
Kristian Fog Nielsen
Kristian Fog Nielsen Technical University of Denmark
Henrik Koblitz Rasmussen
Henrik Koblitz Rasmussen University College Absalon
David J. Webb
David J. Webb Aston University
Anders Bjarklev
Anders Bjarklev Technical University of Denmark
Adrian Gh. Podoleanu
Adrian Gh. Podoleanu University of Kent
Carlos Marques
Carlos Marques University of Aveiro
Dragomir N. Neshev
Dragomir N. Neshev Australian National University
Jesper Lægsgaard
Jesper Lægsgaard Technical University of Denmark

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