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SA Photonics (United States)

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Research works
61
▲ 23% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.1k
18.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
35%
world 40%
International
19%
world 18%
SA Photonics (United States)

Not ranked overall: SA Photonics (United States) is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does SA Photonics (United States) work in?

In all years, 85% of research at SA Photonics (United States) is in Physical Sciences, 6% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (45%), Physics and Astronomy (22%), Computer Science (6%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 52 fractional works · 85.4% of its workEngineering: 28 fractional works · 45.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 20 fractional works · 32.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 14 fractional works · 22.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9 fractional works · 15.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInstrumentation: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 5.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBioengineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 3.9% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.0% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStructural Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSA Photonics(United States)61fractional works, all years
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences85%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences4%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering2845.5%
    2. Physics and Astronomy1422.5%
    3. Computer Science45.9%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences23.7%
    5. Chemistry23.6%
    6. Environmental Science11.6%
    7. Materials Science11.5%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.7%
    9. Mathematics00.5%
    1. Medicine23.9%
    2. Health Professions11.8%
    3. Nursing00.2%
    4. Veterinary00.2%
    1. Neuroscience12.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.5%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.8%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.3%
    1. Psychology23.5%
    2. Social Sciences00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.68× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.95× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.46× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.93× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.89× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 3.06× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.58× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.64× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 8.04× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.55× its world share, 2 worksMedicineSocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 8.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy8.04×3 works
  2. Engineering3.06×7 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.89×1 works
  4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.46×0 works
  5. Neuroscience0.95×0 works
  6. Computer Science0.93×1 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology0.68×0 works
  8. Materials Science0.64×0 works
  9. Environmental Science0.58×0 works
  10. Medicine0.55×2 works
  11. Chemistry0.52×0 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.45×0 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.43×0 works
  14. Health Professions0.16×0 works
  15. Social Sciences0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at SA Photonics (United States)?

Ranked on the quality score, Michael P. Browne and Kirk W. Moffitt lead among researchers whose main affiliation is SA Photonics (United States).

  1. 1 Michael P. Browne United States · #4,462,179 worldwide 116 citations · 18 works
  2. 2 Kirk W. Moffitt United States · #4,468,710 worldwide 190 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at SA Photonics (United States)

What are the most cited papers from SA Photonics (United States)?

The most cited paper from SA Photonics (United States) is "Mode instability in high power fiber amplifiers" (Arlee V. Smith, Jesse Joshua Smith, 2011), with 478 citations. Next come "40-nm-wide tunable fiber ring laser with single-mode operation using a highly stretchable FBG" (174) and "Increasing mode instability thresholds of fiber amplifiers by gain saturation" (156).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mode instability in high power fiber amplifiers Arlee V. Smith, Jesse Joshua Smith · Optics Express Open access 9 May 2011 478
2 40-nm-wide tunable fiber ring laser with single-mode operation using a highly stretchable FBG Yong‐Won Song, S.A. Havstad, Dmitry S. Starodubov et al. · IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Nov 2001 174
3 Increasing mode instability thresholds of fiber amplifiers by gain saturation Arlee V. Smith, Jesse Joshua Smith · Optics Express Open access 18 Jun 2013 156
4 Sub-femtosecond precision measurement of relative X-ray arrival time for free-electron lasers N. Hartmann, Wolfram Helml, Andreas Galler et al. · Nature Photonics Open access 25 Jul 2014 117
5 Optical Damage Limits to Pulse Energy From Fibers Arlee V. Smith, T. Binh, George Ronald Hadley et al. · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 2009 102
All 73 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at SA Photonics (United States)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Nonlinear Optics, Fiber Lasers, Optical Fiber, Microwave Photonics, Biosensors, Microresonators, Structural Health Monitoring and Fiber Optic Sensors.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Nonlinear Optics8▲ 73×4 topics
  2. Fiber Lasers7▲ 78×3 topics
  3. Optical Fiber7▲ 84×2 topics
  4. Microwave Photonics5▲ 64×2 topics
  5. Biosensors4▲ 13×5 topics
  6. Microresonators4▲ 58×3 topics
  7. Structural Health Monitoring4▲ 71×2 topics
  8. Fiber Optic Sensors4▲ 123×1 topic
  9. Sensor Technology4▲ 123×1 topic
  10. Optical Modulators4▲ 31×2 topics
  11. Silicon Photonics4▲ 41×2 topics
  12. Gas Sensing4▲ 78×2 topics
  13. Integrated Circuits4▲ 27×2 topics
  14. Optical Frequency Combs4▲ 78×1 topic
  15. Raman Lasers4▲ 35×2 topics
  16. Ultrafast Lasers4▲ 78×1 topic
  17. Microcavities4▲ 36×1 topic
  18. Nanophotonic Waveguides4▲ 40×1 topic
  19. High-Power Laser3▲ 226×1 topic
  20. Supercontinuum Generation3▲ 226×1 topic
  21. Coherent Detection2▲ 61×1 topic
  22. Digital Signal Processing2▲ 52×1 topic
  23. Semiconductor Lasers2▲ 30×2 topics
  24. Optical Interconnects2▲ 30×1 topic
  25. Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs)2▲ 30×1 topic
  26. Detection1▲ 7.8×2 topics
  27. Frequency Conversion1▲ 24×3 topics
  28. Spectroscopy1▲ 7.3×4 topics
  29. Infrared1▲ 73×1 topic
  30. Small Target1▲ 73×1 topic
  31. Thin Films1▲ 8.2×2 topics
  32. Tomography1▲ 7.5×3 topics
  33. Color Psychology1▲ 56×1 topic
  34. Kansei Engineering1▲ 56×1 topic
  35. Electronic Structure1▲ 8.4×2 topics
  36. Photon Counting1▲ 23×2 topics
  37. Cancer Detection1▲ 24×2 topics
  38. Grid Computing1▲ 25×1 topic
  39. Neural Processing1▲ 17×1 topic
  40. Nursing Home1▲ 45×1 topic

Which research topics does SA Photonics (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Photonic and Optical Devices, Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies and Advanced Photonic Communication Systems.

Photonic and Optical Dev…2Photonic and Optical Devices: 2 fractional worksAdvanced Fiber Optic Sen…1Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Fiber Laser Tec…1Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Photonic Communication Systems: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Computational Techniques and Applications: 0 fractional worksSemiconductor Lasers and…0Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices: 0 fractional worksMechanical and Optical Resonators: 0 fractional worksPhotorefractive and Nonlinear Optics: 0 fractional worksFood Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research: 0 fractional worksRespiratory and Cough-Related Research: 0 fractional works
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringAtomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsArtificial IntelligenceImmunology and Allergy1 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2 works
  2. 2 Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  4. 4 Advanced Photonic Communication Systems Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1 works
  5. 5 Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  6. 6 Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Mechanical and Optical Resonators Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 0 works
  8. 8 Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 0 works
  9. 9 Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research Immunology and Allergy 0 works
  10. 10 Respiratory and Cough-Related Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available34.7%not open65.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.2%domestic only80.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has SA Photonics (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is SA Photonics (United States) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000050% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%SA Photonics (United States)0.00011% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of SA Photonics (United States) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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