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Akira Shirakawa

Akira Shirakawa publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Acoustics and Ultrasonics, on topics such as Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Solid State Laser Technologies and Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics.

World rank
#142,533
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#3,328
of 114,622
Works
61
Citations
223
Citations per work
3.7

What does Akira Shirakawa research?

Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 52.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 39.2%Acoustics and Ultrasonics: 1.4%Ceramics and Composites: 1.4%other fields: 5.3%53%top field
Electrical and Electronic Engineering52.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics39.2%Acoustics and Ultrasonics1.4%Ceramics and Composites1.4%other fields5.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering53% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics39% of their works
  3. 3Acoustics and Ultrasonics1% of their works
  4. 4Ceramics and Composites1% of their works
  5. 5Civil and Structural Engineering1% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Akira Shirakawa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nonlinear Optics, Fiber Lasers, Microresonators, Frequency Conversion, Optical Frequency Combs, Ultrafast Lasers, Optical Fiber and Solid-State Lasers.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Nonlinear Optics394 topics
  2. Fiber Lasers292 topics
  3. Microresonators252 topics
  4. Frequency Conversion223 topics
  5. Optical Frequency Combs181 topic
  6. Ultrafast Lasers181 topic
  7. Optical Fiber122 topics
  8. Solid-State Lasers121 topic
  9. Ytterbium121 topic
  10. High-Power Laser111 topic
  11. Supercontinuum Generation111 topic
  12. Fiber Optic Sensors71 topic
  13. Lithium Niobate71 topic
  14. Photonics71 topic
  15. Sensor Technology71 topic
  16. Coherent Detection51 topic
  17. Digital Signal Processing51 topic
  18. Attosecond Physics31 topic
  19. Electric Discharge31 topic
  20. High-Harmonic Generation31 topic
  21. Laser Oscillation31 topic

Where does Akira Shirakawa work?

Akira Shirakawa's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Electro-Communications, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Akira Shirakawa have?

Science Explorer counts 61 works and 223 citations for Akira Shirakawa, ranking #142,533 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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