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Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies

Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies is a research topic within Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Science Explorer counts 84k research works in it since 1950. 15.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the generation, control, and applications of optical frequency combs and ultrafast lasers. It includes research on mode-locking, microresonators, saturable absorbers, fiber lasers, nonlinear optics, frequency synthesis, photonic chip-based combs, and their applications in microwave photonics.

  • Optical Frequency Combs
  • Ultrafast Lasers
  • Mode-Locking
  • Microresonators
  • Saturable Absorbers
  • Fiber Lasers
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Frequency Synthesis
  • Photonic Chip
  • Microwave Photonics
Research works
84k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
13k
per year above
Top-10% rate
15.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+12%
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Which countries lead Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (4.9k and 1.3k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 4.9k works
  2. 2 United States 1.3k works
  3. 3 Germany 594 works
  4. 4 Russia 510 works
  5. 5 France 476 works
  6. 6 Japan 455 works
  7. 7 India 414 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 316 works
  9. 9 Canada 227 works
  10. 10 Italy 204 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 52.0%United States: 13.8%Germany: 6.4%Russia: 5.5%6 others listed: 22.4%52%largest
China4,850 · 52.0%United States1,283 · 13.8%Germany594 · 6.4%Russia510 · 5.5%6 others listed2,093 · 22.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies research, followed by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and National University of Defense Technology.

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies include M. Lefebvre, Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi.

  1. 1 M. Lefebvre United States 6.8k citations
  2. 2 Kenji Watanabe Japan 6.4k citations
  3. 3 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 6.2k citations
  4. 4 K. Liu France 5.4k citations
  5. 5 R. Ulrich Germany 4.3k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Wuhan (China) and Nanjing (China).

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 1.1k works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 402 works
  3. 3 Wuhan China 275 works
  4. 4 Nanjing China 239 works
  5. 5 Moscow Russia 212 works
  6. 6 Tianjin China 210 works
  7. 7 Shenzhen China 203 works
  8. 8 Tokyo Japan 203 works
  9. 9 Xi'an China 203 works
  10. 10 Guangzhou China 201 works
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Where is the best place to study Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Shenzhen University, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Zhejiang A & F University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%60%mean 31.88%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Shenzhen University: 79, 15.8%École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: 56, 23.7%Zhejiang A & F University: 18, 54.7%El Shorouk Academy: 10, 45.9%Higher Institute of Engineering: 10, 44.2%University of Chinese Academy of Sciences: 135, 12.3%Shenzhen Technology University: 26, 18.0%Biruni University: 18, 34.6%Taibah University: 12, 48.4%National Research Nuclear University MEPhI: 16, 21.2%Zhejiang A & F Unive…El Shorouk AcademyÉcole Polytechnique …Shenzhen University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Shenzhen UniversityChina 64.915.8%9.3×79 +213.1%
2 École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland 64.623.7%11.9×56 +91.9%
3 Zhejiang A & F UniversityChina 61.754.7%9.9×18 -49.9%
4 El Shorouk AcademyEgypt 60.945.9%74.2×10
5 Higher Institute of EngineeringEgypt 60.544.2%12.9×10
6 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 60.012.3%7.2×135 +321.3%
7 Shenzhen Technology UniversityChina 59.218.0%16.4×26 +177.7%
8 Biruni UniversityTürkiye 58.734.6%31.1×18
9 Taibah UniversitySaudi Arabia 58.348.4%7.0×12
10 National Research Nuclear University MEPhIRussia 57.321.2%11.3×16 +574.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 12% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.