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D-Index
64
Citations
14815
World Ranking
1649
National Ranking
49

Wolfgang Osten publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang Osten sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 770 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Wolfgang Osten D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang Osten sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - OSA Fellows Wolfgang Osten University of Stuttgart, Germany For numerous significant contributions to optical metrology and information processing including areas such digital holography, phase retrieval and display, and micro-and nano-optics.
  • 2002 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Wolfgang Osten is affiliated with the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and physics, with a notable focus on optical measurement and interference techniques, advanced optical imaging technologies, and digital holography and microscopy.

The main fields of study associated with Wolfgang Osten include Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. Their research extends into several specialized subfields, such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Media Technology, Biomedical Engineering, and Acoustics and Ultrasonics.

Wolfgang Osten has contributed to a variety of topics throughout their career. These include:

  • Optical measurement and interference techniques
  • Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies
  • Digital Holography and Microscopy
  • Random lasers and scattering media
  • Advanced Measurement and Metrology Techniques
  • Surface Roughness and Optical Measurements
  • Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies

Their publication record features papers in prominent venues such as Light Advanced Manufacturing, Optics Letters, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Optical Engineering, and Light Science & Applications. Frequent co-authors include Giancarlo Pedrini, Tobias Haist, Simon Hartlieb, Karsten Frenner, and Michael Ringkowski.

Representative recent papers authored by Wolfgang Osten include:

  • Phase imaging with an untrained neural network, 2020, Light Science & Applications
  • Lensless light-field imaging through diffuser encoding, 2020, Light Science & Applications
  • Contributions of holography to the advancement of interferometric measurements of surface topography, 2022, Light Advanced Manufacturing
  • Roadmap on chaos-inspired imaging technologies (CI2-Tech), 2022, Applied Physics B
  • Structured-light-field 3D imaging without phase unwrapping, 2020, Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Wolfgang Osten has been recognized by professional organizations, receiving the OSA Fellows award in 2014 for contributions to optical metrology and information processing, including areas such as digital holography, phase retrieval and display, and micro- and nano-optics. They were also named an SPIE Fellow in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Phase imaging with an untrained neural network.

    Fei Wang;Yaoming Bian;Haichao Wang;Meng Lyu

  • Wave-front reconstruction from a sequence of interferograms recorded at different planes.

    Giancarlo Pedrini;Wolfgang Osten;Yan Zhang

  • Direct shape measurement by digital wavefront reconstruction and multi-wavelength contouring

    Christophe Wagner;Wolfgang Osten;Soenke Seebacher

  • Digital recording and numerical reconstruction of lensless Fourier holograms in optical metrology

    Christoph Wagner;Sönke Seebacher;Wolfgang Osten;Werner Jüptner

  • Recent advances in digital holography [Invited]

    Wolfgang Osten;Ahmad Faridian;Peng Gao;Klaus Körner

  • High-speed digital holographic interferometry for vibration measurement

    Giancarlo Pedrini;Wolfgang Osten;Mikhail E. Gusev

  • Complete wavefront reconstruction using sequential intensity measurements of a volume speckle field

    Percival Almoro;Giancarlo Pedrini;Wolfgang Osten

  • Phase retrieval using multiple illumination wavelengths.

    Peng Bao;Fucai Zhang;Giancarlo Pedrini;Wolfgang Osten

  • Phase retrieval of arbitrary complex-valued fields through aperture-plane modulation

    Fucai Zhang;Giancarlo Pedrini;Wolfgang Osten

  • Optical Inspection of Microsystems

    Wolfgang Osten

  • Normal vector method for convergence improvement using the RCWA for crossed gratings.

    Thomas Schuster;Johannes Ruoff;Norbert Kerwien;Stephan Rafler

  • Whole optical wave field reconstruction from double or multi in-line holograms by phase retrieval algorithm.

    Yan Zhang;Giancarlo Pedrini;Wolfgang Osten;Hans J. Tiziani

  • Spiral phase filtering and orientation-selective edge detection/enhancement

    Guohai Situ;Giancarlo Pedrini;Wolfgang Osten

  • Comparative digital holography

    Wolfgang Osten;Torsten Baumbach;Werner Jüptner

  • Structured illumination for resolution enhancement and autofocusing in digital holographic microscopy

    Peng Gao;Giancarlo Pedrini;Wolfgang Osten

  • Method and arrangement for a rapid and robust chromatic confocal 3d measurement technique

    Klaus Körner;Christian Kohler;Wolfgang Osten;Evangelos Papastathopoulos

  • Reverse engineering by fringe projection

    Jan Burke;Thorsten Bothe;Wolfgang Osten;Cecil F. Hess

  • Interferometer for precise and flexible asphere testing

    Eugenio Garbusi;Christof Pruss;Wolfgang Osten

  • Vibration measurement by temporal Fourier analyses of a digital hologram sequence.

    Yu Fu;Giancarlo Pedrini;Wolfgang Osten

  • The determination of material parameters of microcomponents using digital holography

    S Seebacher;W Osten;T Baumbach;W Jüptner

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiang Peng
Xiang Peng Shenzhen University
Guohai Situ
Guohai Situ Chinese Academy of Sciences
Harald Giessen
Harald Giessen University of Stuttgart
Bahram Javidi
Bahram Javidi University of Connecticut
Anand Asundi
Anand Asundi d'Optron Pte
Oliver Sawodny
Oliver Sawodny University of Stuttgart
Siegfried Schmauder
Siegfried Schmauder University of Stuttgart
Oliver Paul
Oliver Paul University of Freiburg
Christof Schulz
Christof Schulz University of Duisburg-Essen
Boris N. Chichkov
Boris N. Chichkov University of Hannover

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