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D-Index
103
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43641
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1482
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777

Oskar Painter publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Oskar Painter sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 376 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Oskar Painter D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Oskar Painter sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - OSA Fellows Oskar Painter California Institute of Technology, USA For pioneering contributions to integrated quantum-optical and optomechanical devices and application to quantum information systems

Overview

Oskar Painter is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research concentrates on fields including Physics and Astronomy, Engineering, and Computer Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics of Painter's work include Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Quantum Information and Cryptography, Photonic and Optical Devices, Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies, Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture, Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, and Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing.

Painter has published extensively, with prominent venues featuring their work including arXiv (Cornell University) with 17 publications, Physical Review X and the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics each with 4, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 4, and PRX Quantum with 2 publications.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Painter include:

  • Building a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer Using Concatenated Cat Codes, 2022, PRX Quantum
  • Nano-acoustic resonator with ultralong phonon lifetime, 2020, Science
  • Quantum Electrodynamics in a Topological Waveguide, 2021, Physical Review X
  • Two-dimensional optomechanical crystal cavity with high quantum cooperativity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A superconducting quantum simulator based on a photonic-bandgap metamaterial, 2023, Science

Frequent collaborators in Painter's research include Srujan Meesala, Hengjiang Ren, David P. Lake, Harald Putterman, and Liang Jiang.

Painter has received recognition from the Optical Society of America (OSA) as an OSA Fellow in 2021 for pioneering contributions to integrated quantum-optical and optomechanical devices and their applications to quantum information systems.

Best Publications

  • Two-Dimensional Photonic Band-Gap Defect Mode Laser

    Oskar Painter;R. K. Lee;Axel Scherer;A. Yariv

  • Laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator into its quantum ground state

    Jasper Chan;T. P. Mayer Alegre;T. P. Mayer Alegre;Amir H. Safavi-Naeini;Jeff T. Hill

  • Electromagnetically induced transparency and slow light with optomechanics

    A. H. Safavi-Naeini;T. P. Mayer Alegre;J. Chan;M. Eichenfield

  • Optomechanical Crystals

    Matt Eichenfield;Jasper Chan;Ryan M. Camacho;Kerry J. Vahala

  • Observation of critical coupling in a fiber taper to a silica-microsphere whispering-gallery mode system

    Ming Cai;Oskar Painter;Kerry J. Vahala

  • Nonlinear optical phenomena in silicon waveguides: Modeling and applications

    Q. Lin;Oskar J. Painter;Govind P. Agrawal

  • Ideality in a fiber-taper-coupled microresonator system for application to cavity quantum electrodynamics.

    S. M. Spillane;T. J. Kippenberg;O. J. Painter;K. J. Vahala

  • A picogram- and nanometre-scale photonic-crystal optomechanical cavity

    Matt Eichenfield;Ryan Camacho;Jasper Chan;Kerry J. Vahala

  • Chemically etched ultrahigh-Q wedge-resonator on a silicon chip

    Hansuek Lee;Tong Chen;Jiang Li;Ki Youl Yang

  • A high-resolution microchip optomechanical accelerometer

    Alexander G. Krause;Martin Winger;Tim D. Blasius;Qiang Lin

  • Cavity opto-mechanics using an optically levitated nanosphere

    D. E. Chang;C. A. Regal;S. B. Papp;D. J. Wilson

  • Squeezed light from a silicon micromechanical resonator

    Amir H. Safavi-Naeini;Simon Gröblacher;Jeff T. Hill;Jasper Chan

  • Defect Modes of a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal in an Optically Thin Dielectric Slab

    Oskar Painter;Jelena Vuckovic;Axel Scherer

  • Beyond the Rayleigh scattering limit in high-Q silicon microdisks: theory and experiment.

    Matthew Borselli;Thomas J. Johnson;Oskar Painter

  • Phonon laser action in a tunable, two-level system

    Ivan S. Grudinin;Hansuek Lee;O. Painter;Kerry J. Vahala

  • Superradiance for Atoms Trapped along a Photonic Crystal Waveguide.

    A. Goban;C.-L. Hung;J. D. Hood;S.-P. Yu

  • Atom-Light Interactions in Photonic Crystals

    A. Goban;C.-L. Hung;S.-P. Yu;J. D. Hood

  • Observation of quantum motion of a nanomechanical resonator.

    Amir H. Safavi-Naeini;Jasper Chan;Jeff T. Hill;Thiago P. Mayer Alegre

  • Linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of a strongly coupled microdisk–quantum dot system

    Kartik Srinivasan;Oskar Painter

  • Coherent optical wavelength conversion via cavity-optomechanics

    Jeff Hill;Amir Safavi-Naeini;Jasper Chan;Oskar Painter

Frequent Co-Authors

Kartik Srinivasan
Kartik Srinivasan University of Maryland, College Park
Axel Scherer
Axel Scherer California Institute of Technology
Paul E. Barclay
Paul E. Barclay University of Calgary
Kerry J. Vahala
Kerry J. Vahala California Institute of Technology
Amnon Yariv
Amnon Yariv California Institute of Technology
Qiang Lin
Qiang Lin University of Rochester
Raffaele Colombelli
Raffaele Colombelli University of Paris-Saclay
Jelena Vuckovic
Jelena Vuckovic Stanford University
Sanjay Krishna
Sanjay Krishna The Ohio State University
Marko Loncar
Marko Loncar Harvard University

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