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Researcher · Ascom (Switzerland) · Switzerland

Bernd Valk

Bernd Valk publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, Photonic and Optical Devices and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,697,107
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#76,994
of 80,918
Works
34
Citations
305
Citations per work
9.0
h-index
11
i10-index 13Top 47% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Bernd Valk

What does Bernd Valk research?

Bernd Valk's work is mostly in Engineering (74%), Physics and Astronomy (19%), Materials Science (2%).

Physical Sciences: 33 works · 95.8% of their workEngineering: 25 works · 73.7% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 21 works · 62.1% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 3 works · 8.4% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 3.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 6 works · 18.9% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 6 works · 18.9% of their workMaterials Science: 1 works · 2.1% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 1 works · 2.1% of their workComputer Science: 0 works · 1.1% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 works · 1.1% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKBernd Valk34works
Physical Sciences96%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering2573.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy618.9%
    3. Materials Science12.1%
    4. Computer Science01.1%
  2. Everything else14.2%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering62% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics19% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry2% of their works
  6. 6Computer Networks and Communications1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bernd Valk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Raman Lasers, Optical Interconnects, Semiconductor Lasers, Nonlinear Optics, Frequency Conversion, Optical Modulators, Silicon Photonics and Optical Frequency Combs.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Raman Lasers152 topics
  2. Optical Interconnects141 topic
  3. Semiconductor Lasers141 topic
  4. Nonlinear Optics132 topics
  5. Frequency Conversion102 topics
  6. Optical Modulators91 topic
  7. Silicon Photonics91 topic
  8. Optical Frequency Combs71 topic
  9. Ultrafast Lasers71 topic
  10. Attosecond Physics61 topic
  11. Coherent Detection61 topic
  12. High-Harmonic Generation61 topic
  13. Optical Fiber61 topic
  14. Solid-State Lasers61 topic
  15. Ytterbium61 topic
  16. Electric Discharge41 topic
  17. Laser Oscillation41 topic
  18. MEMS41 topic
  19. Silicon41 topic

Where does Bernd Valk work?

Bernd Valk's main affiliation in the publication record is Ascom (Switzerland), Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Bernd Valk have?

OpenAlex counts 34 works and 305 citations for Bernd Valk, an h-index of 11, ranking #6,697,107 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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