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Advanced Photonic Communication Systems

Advanced Photonic Communication Systems is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 46k 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 intersection of microwave photonics and optical access networks, covering topics such as photonic signal processing, radio over fiber, passive optical networks, millimeter-wave generation, photonic integrated circuits, dynamic bandwidth allocation, fiber-wireless networks, and analog-to-digital converters.

  • Microwave Photonics
  • Photonic Signal Processing
  • Optical Access Networks
  • Radio Over Fiber
  • Passive Optical Network
  • Millimeter-Wave Generation
  • Photonic Integrated Circuits
  • Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation
  • Fiber-Wireless Networks
  • Analog-to-Digital Converters
Research works
46k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Photonic Communication Systems

Which countries lead Advanced Photonic Communication Systems research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3k and 637 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3k works
  2. 2 United States 637 works
  3. 3 India 629 works
  4. 4 Japan 548 works
  5. 5 Germany 252 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 242 works
  7. 7 Italy 196 works
  8. 8 Canada 185 works
  9. 9 France 163 works
  10. 10 South Korea 132 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: 50.3%United States: 10.6%India: 10.5%Japan: 9.1%6 others listed: 19.5%50%largest
China3,018 · 50.3%United States637 · 10.6%India629 · 10.5%Japan548 · 9.1%6 others listed1,171 · 19.5%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Photonic Communication Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications publishes the most Advanced Photonic Communication Systems research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and NTT (Japan).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 256 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 170 works
  3. 3 NTT (Japan)Japan 101 works
  4. 4 Fudan UniversityChina 99 works
  5. 5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 95 works
  6. 6 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 91 works
  7. 7 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 77 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 69 works
  9. 9 Peng Cheng LaboratoryChina 63 works
  10. 10 Nokia (Finland)Finland 61 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Photonic Communication Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Photonic Communication Systems include Wei Huang, Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  3. 3 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  6. 6 Jiaguo Yu China 207k citations
  7. 7 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  8. 8 Edward Hartley Sargent Canada 185k citations
  9. 9 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  10. 10 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k 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 Photonic Communication Systems?

The most cited paper in Advanced Photonic Communication Systems is "Space-division multiplexing in optical fibres" (David John Richardson, John M. Fini, Lynn E. Nelson, 2013), with 3,390 citations. Next come "Wireless infrared communications" (3,364) and "Microwave photonics combines two worlds" (3,004).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Space-division multiplexing in optical fibres David John Richardson, John M. Fini, Lynn E. Nelson · Nature Photonics Open access 29 Apr 2013 3,390
2 Wireless infrared communications Joseph M. Kahn, John R. Barry · Proceedings of the IEEE 1997 3,364
3 Microwave photonics combines two worlds J. Capmany, Dalma Novak · Nature Photonics Jun 2007 3,004
4 Capacity Limits of Optical Fiber Networks René-Jean Essiambre, Gerhard G. Kramer, Peter J. Winzer et al. · Journal of Lightwave Technology Open access Feb 2010 2,362
5 OFDM for Optical Communications Jean Armstrong · Journal of Lightwave Technology Feb 2009 2,115
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Photonic Communication Systems research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Photonic Communication Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Coppell and Fujimino.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 809 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 303 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 276 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 227 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 199 works
  6. 6 ChengduChina 157 works
  7. 7 ShenzhenChina 143 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 135 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 132 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 123 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CoppellUS · 24.4 works221×
  2. FujiminoJP · 21.1 works122×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Photonic Communication Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Photonic Communication Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Fudan University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Zhejiang 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%10%20%30%mean 17.96%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Cambri…Fudan UniversityHong Kong Polytechni…Zhejiang University
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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.

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
1Fudan UniversityChina 77.922.9%9.5×99 +100.3%
2Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 61.617.1%4.4×25 +37.0%
3Zhejiang UniversityChina 60.615.6%3.9×68 +46.7%
4University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 57.327.8%1.8×14 +12.4%
5Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 54.86.6%60.5×256 +1.2%
6Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 54.015.0%7.0×35 +24.3%
7Chandigarh UniversityIndia 53.919.1%5.5×20 +424.3%
8Southeast UniversityChina 53.413.4%5.2×51 +56.1%
9Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 53.418.9%3.0×33 +94.5%
10China University of GeosciencesChina 52.923.2%3.4×10 +204.5%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Photonic Communication Systems, country by country

Is Advanced Photonic Communication Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Photonic Communication Systems.

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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 Photonic Communication Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Advanced Photonic Communication Systems0.031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Photonic Communication Systems 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%15%Advanced Photonic Communication Systems9.6% 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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