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R. C. Alferness

R. C. Alferness publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Photonic and Optical Devices, Optical Network Technologies and Advanced Photonic Communication Systems.

World rank
#19,040
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#9,059
of 358,040
Works
50
Citations
445
Citations per work
8.9

What does R. C. Alferness research?

Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 80.4%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 19.6%80%top field
Electrical and Electronic Engineering80.4%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics19.6%

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 Engineering80% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics20% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. C. Alferness's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Microwave Photonics, Optical Modulators, Microcavities, Optical Fiber, Silicon Photonics, Coherent Detection, Digital Signal Processing and Microresonators.

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. Microwave Photonics172 topics
  2. Optical Modulators172 topics
  3. Microcavities131 topic
  4. Optical Fiber132 topics
  5. Silicon Photonics131 topic
  6. Coherent Detection111 topic
  7. Digital Signal Processing111 topic
  8. Microresonators112 topics
  9. Nonlinear Optics112 topics
  10. Optical Access Networks101 topic
  11. Photonic Signal Processing101 topic
  12. Optical Frequency Combs71 topic
  13. Ultrafast Lasers71 topic
  14. Optical Interconnects51 topic
  15. Semiconductor Lasers51 topic
  16. Elastic Optical Networks41 topic
  17. Lithium Niobate41 topic
  18. Optical Networks41 topic
  19. Photonics41 topic
  20. Fiber Optic Sensors21 topic
  21. Sensor Technology21 topic

Where does R. C. Alferness work?

R. C. Alferness's main affiliation in the publication record is AT&T (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does R. C. Alferness have?

Science Explorer counts 50 works and 445 citations for R. C. Alferness, ranking #19,040 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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