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Researcher · Finisar (United States) · United States

William A. Ling

William A. Ling publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics, on topics such as Optical Network Technologies, Photonic and Optical Devices and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,432,099
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,183,190
of 1,627,098
Works
20
Citations
318
Citations per work
15.9
h-index
8
i10-index 8Top 66% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
William A. Ling

What does William A. Ling research?

William A. Ling's work is mostly in Engineering (88%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (3%), Computer Science (3%).

Physical Sciences: 19 works · 94.9% of their workEngineering: 18 works · 88.3% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 16 works · 78.3% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 8.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 0 works · 1.7% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 3.3% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 works · 3.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 works · 3.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 works · 3.3% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 3.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 works · 3.3% of their workBiophysics: 1 works · 3.3% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam A. Ling20works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences95%

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. Engineering1888.3%
    2. Computer Science13.3%
    3. Physics and Astronomy13.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13.3%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering78% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering8% of their works
  3. 3Biophysics3% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics3% of their works
  5. 5Computer Networks and Communications3% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William A. Ling's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Integrated Circuits, Coherent Detection, Optical Fiber, Optical Interconnects, Optical Modulators, Semiconductor Lasers, Silicon Photonics and Frequency Synthesizer.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Integrated Circuits112 topics
  2. Coherent Detection101 topic
  3. Optical Fiber101 topic
  4. Optical Interconnects81 topic
  5. Optical Modulators81 topic
  6. Semiconductor Lasers81 topic
  7. Silicon Photonics81 topic
  8. Frequency Synthesizer72 topics
  9. Microwave Photonics41 topic
  10. Phase-Locked Loops41 topic
  11. Photonic Signal Processing41 topic
  12. Time-to-Digital Converter41 topic
  13. CMOS31 topic
  14. Oscillators31 topic
  15. Fluorescent Proteins21 topic
  16. Photoacoustic Imaging21 topic
  17. Super-Resolution Imaging21 topic
  18. Tomography21 topic

Where does William A. Ling work?

William A. Ling's main affiliation in the publication record is Finisar (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does William A. Ling have?

OpenAlex counts 20 works and 318 citations for William A. Ling, an h-index of 8, ranking #4,432,099 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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