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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. 9.8% 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%
8.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies

Which countries lead Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (5.3k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 5.3k works
  2. 2 United States 1.3k works
  3. 3 Germany 622 works
  4. 4 Russia 522 works
  5. 5 France 495 works
  6. 6 Japan 476 works
  7. 7 India 439 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 335 works
  9. 9 Canada 237 works
  10. 10 Italy 215 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: 53.1%United States: 13.5%Germany: 6.2%Russia: 5.2%6 others listed: 22.0%53%largest
China5,305 · 53.1%United States1,349 · 13.5%Germany622 · 6.2%Russia522 · 5.2%6 others listed2,197 · 22.0%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 508 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 231 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 186 works
  4. 4 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 144 works
  5. 5 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 135 works
  6. 6 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 123 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 119 works
  8. 8 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 107 works
  9. 9 Shandong UniversityChina 100 works
  10. 10 Tianjin UniversityChina 96 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies include Kostya S. Novoselov, Yury G. Gogotsi and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  2. 2 Yury G. Gogotsi United States 313k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  5. 5 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  6. 6 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  7. 7 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  8. 8 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  9. 9 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  10. 10 L. Li France 211k citations

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

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies is "Sensitive measurement of optical nonlinearities using a single beam" (Mansoor Sheik‐Bahae, A. A. Said, Tai‐Huei Wei et al., 1990), with 9,073 citations. Next come "Nonlinear Fiber Optics" (9,064) and "Attosecond physics" (5,432).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Sensitive measurement of optical nonlinearities using a single beam Mansoor Sheik‐Bahae, A. A. Said, Tai‐Huei Wei et al. · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics Open access Apr 1990 9,073
2 Nonlinear Fiber Optics Govind Prasad Agrawal · Lecture notes in physics Book chapter 24 Jun 2007 9,064
3 Attosecond physics Ferenc Krausz, Misha Ivanov · Reviews of Modern Physics 2 Feb 2009 5,432
4 Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber John M. Dudley, Goëry Genty, Stéphane Coen · Reviews of Modern Physics 4 Oct 2006 4,374
5 Theory of high-harmonic generation by low-frequency laser fields Maciej Lewenstein, Ph. Balcou, Misha Ivanov et al. · Physical Review A Open access Mar 1994 4,153
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Wuhan (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jinan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1.1k works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 430 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 301 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 253 works
  5. 5 TianjinChina 224 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 222 works
  7. 7 ShenzhenChina 219 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 217 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 215 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 214 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Jinan21.1 works31×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Zhejiang A & F University, Higher Institute of Engineering and Taibah University score highest, combining citation 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%mean 24.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang A & F Unive…Higher Institute of …Taibah UniversityEl Shorouk Academy
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Zhejiang A & F UniversityChina 67.944.0%11.3×19 +205.0%
2Higher Institute of EngineeringEgypt 67.636.1%14.2×10 +270.9%
3Taibah UniversitySaudi Arabia 67.234.7%8.0×13 +58.3%
4El Shorouk AcademyEgypt 64.334.5%84.8×11 +633.0%
5Biruni UniversityTürkiye 61.828.3%35.2×19 +868.5%
6University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 59.69.2%8.2×144 +45.9%
7Zhejiang UniversityChina 59.618.1%3.3×95 +28.6%
8California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 56.118.7%12.0×46 +1.4%
9Shenzhen UniversityChina 55.912.8%10.8×86 -7.4%
10ETH ZurichSwitzerland 54.912.6%8.1×60 -3.0%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, country by country

Is Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.053% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies0.041% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies9.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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