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Researcher · Fibertek (United States) · United States

Walter Koechner

Walter Koechner publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Solid State Laser Technologies, Laser Design and Applications and Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,486,883
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#466,564
of 1,627,098
Works
124
Citations
7.2k
Citations per work
57.7
h-index
20
i10-index 27Top 18% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Walter Koechner

What does Walter Koechner research?

Walter Koechner's work is mostly in Engineering (55%), Physics and Astronomy (32%), Materials Science (3%).

Physical Sciences: 111 works · 89.9% of their workEngineering: 69 works · 55.3% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 60 works · 48.1% of their workComputational Mechanics: 7 works · 5.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 1.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 39 works · 31.7% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 39 works · 31.7% of their workMaterials Science: 4 works · 2.9% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 4 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 8.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 1.7% of their workMedicine: 2 works · 1.7% of their workOphthalmology: 2 works · 1.7% of their workTHEIR WORKWalter Koechner124works
Physical Sciences90%Health Sciences2%

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. Engineering6955.3%
    2. Physics and Astronomy3931.7%
    3. Materials Science42.9%
  2. Everything else108.4%
    1. Medicine21.7%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering48% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics32% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics6% of their works
  4. 4Materials Chemistry3% of their works
  5. 5Ophthalmology2% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter Koechner's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Frequency Conversion, Raman Lasers, Nonlinear Optics, Solid-State Lasers, Ytterbium, Microresonators, Optical Modulators and Electric Discharge.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Frequency Conversion1613 topics
  2. Raman Lasers922 topics
  3. Nonlinear Optics893 topics
  4. Solid-State Lasers781 topic
  5. Ytterbium781 topic
  6. Microresonators702 topics
  7. Optical Modulators492 topics
  8. Electric Discharge481 topic
  9. Laser Oscillation481 topic
  10. Lithium Niobate351 topic
  11. Optical Frequency Combs351 topic
  12. Photonics351 topic
  13. Ultrafast Lasers351 topic
  14. Optical Interconnects211 topic
  15. Semiconductor Lasers211 topic
  16. Attosecond Physics191 topic
  17. High-Harmonic Generation191 topic
  18. Femtosecond Laser151 topic
  19. Micromachining151 topic
  20. Microcavities141 topic
  21. Silicon Photonics141 topic

Where does Walter Koechner work?

Walter Koechner's main affiliation in the publication record is Fibertek (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Walter Koechner have?

OpenAlex counts 124 works and 7,155 citations for Walter Koechner, an h-index of 20, ranking #1,486,883 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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