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Tobias J. Kippenberg 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 Tobias J. Kippenberg sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 833 publications — 86th percentile

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

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

Tobias J. Kippenberg 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 Tobias J. Kippenberg sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 126 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% 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

  • 2018 - OSA Fellows Tobias Kippenberg École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland For pioneering fundamental and applied research on microresonator frequency combs and cavity optomechanics.
  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to the science and application of high Q optical microresonators in cavity quantum optomechanics and optical frequency metrology

Overview

Tobias J. Kippenberg is affiliated with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. The scientist's research primarily focuses on the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering, with significant contributions in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Additional subfields include Artificial Intelligence, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main research topics pursued by Tobias J. Kippenberg cover Photonic and Optical Devices, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications, Advanced Photonic Communication Systems, Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors, and Optical Network Technologies.

Significant recent publications include:

  • "Massively parallel coherent laser ranging using a soliton microcomb", 2020, Nature
  • "Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs", 2020, Nature
  • "Photonic microwave generation in the X- and K-band using integrated soliton microcombs", 2020, Nature Photonics
  • "A photonic integrated circuit-based erbium-doped amplifier", 2022, Science
  • "Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics", 2023, Nature

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Riemensberger, Grigory Lihachev, and Wenle Weng.

Tobias J. Kippenberg has published extensively in various venues, with a pronounced number of papers appearing in arXiv (Cornell University), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Nature Communications, and Nature.

Awards received include being named an OSA Fellow in 2018, recognizing research on microresonator frequency combs and cavity optomechanics. In 2016, the scientist was also elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for contributions relating to high Q optical microresonators in cavity quantum optomechanics and optical frequency metrology.

Best Publications

  • Cavity Optomechanics

    Markus Aspelmeyer;Tobias J. Kippenberg;Florian Marquardt

  • Ultra-high-Q toroid microcavities on a chip

    T.J. Kippenberg;D.K. Armani;S.M. Spillane;K.J. Vahala

  • Optical frequency comb generation from a monolithic microresonator

    P. Del’Haye;A. Schliesser;O. Arcizet;T. Wilken

  • Microresonator-Based Optical Frequency Combs

    Tobias J. Kippenberg;Ronald Holzwarth;S. A. Diddams

  • Cavity Optomechanics: Back-Action at the Mesoscale

    Tobias J. Kippenberg;Kerry J. Vahala

  • Temporal solitons in optical microresonators

    T. Herr;V. Brasch;J. D. Jost;C. Y. Wang

  • Dissipative Kerr Solitons in Optical Microresonators

    Tobias J. Kippenberg;Alexander L. Gaeta;Michal Lipson;Michael L. Gorodetsky

  • Optomechanically Induced Transparency

    Stefan Weis;Rémi Rivière;Samuel Deléglise;Emanuel Gavartin

  • Parallel convolutional processing using an integrated photonic tensor core.

    J. Feldmann;N. Youngblood;N. Youngblood;M. Karpov;H. Gehring

  • Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications

    Pablo Marin-Palomo;Juned N. Kemal;Maxim Karpov;Arne Kordts

  • Ultralow-threshold Raman laser using a spherical dielectric microcavity

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

  • Theory of ground state cooling of a mechanical oscillator using dynamical backaction.

    I. Wilson-Rae;Nima Nooshi;W. Zwerger;Tobias J. Kippenberg

  • Observation of strong coupling between one atom and a monolithic microresonator

    Takao Aoki;Barak Dayan;E. Wilcut;W. P. Bowen;W. P. Bowen

  • Photonic-chip-based frequency combs

    Alexander L. Gaeta;Michal Lipson;Tobias J. Kippenberg

  • Quantum-coherent coupling of a mechanical oscillator to an optical cavity mode

    E. Verhagen;S. Deléglise;S. Weis;S. Weis;A. Schliesser;A. Schliesser

  • Cavity Opto-Mechanics

    Tobias J. Kippenberg;Kerry J. Vahala

  • An optical-frequency synthesizer using integrated photonics

    Daryl T. Spencer;Tara E. Drake;Travis C. Briles;Travis C. Briles;Jordan R. Stone;Jordan R. Stone

  • Analysis of Radiation-Pressure Induced Mechanical Oscillation of an Optical Microcavity

    T. J. Kippenberg;H. Rokhsari;T. Carmon;Axel Scherer

  • Photonic chip–based optical frequency comb using soliton Cherenkov radiation

    V. Brasch;M. Geiselmann;T. Herr;G. Lihachev

  • Optomechanically Induced Transparency

    S. Weis;S. Deléglise;R. Rivière;E. Gavartin

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerry J. Vahala
Kerry J. Vahala California Institute of Technology
Alan E. Willner
Alan E. Willner University of Southern California
Ronald Holzwarth
Ronald Holzwarth Max Planck Society
Christian Koos
Christian Koos Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Moshe Tur
Moshe Tur Tel Aviv University
Wolfgang Freude
Wolfgang Freude Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Lin Zhang
Lin Zhang Tianjin University
John E. Bowers
John E. Bowers University of California, Santa Barbara
Juerg Leuthold
Juerg Leuthold ETH Zurich
Scott A. Diddams
Scott A. Diddams University of Colorado Boulder

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