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Laser Design and Applications

Laser Design and Applications is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 39k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and application of electric discharge pumped lasers, particularly emphasizing the use of atomic iodine and singlet oxygen generation for continuous wave operation and gain measurement. The research also covers topics such as copper vapor lasers, frequency conversion, and high power laser technology.

  • Electric Discharge
  • Laser Oscillation
  • Atomic Iodine
  • Singlet Oxygen Generation
  • Oxygen-Iodine Laser
  • Gain Measurement
  • Continuous Wave Operation
  • Copper Vapor Laser
  • High Power Laser
  • Frequency Conversion
Research works
39k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Laser Design and Applications

Which countries lead Laser Design and Applications research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (664 and 461 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 664 works
  2. 2 Russia 461 works
  3. 3 United States 417 works
  4. 4 Germany 152 works
  5. 5 France 142 works
  6. 6 Japan 102 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 66 works
  8. 8 India 54 works
  9. 9 Czechia 42 works
  10. 10 Italy 37 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: 31.1%Russia: 21.6%United States: 19.5%Germany: 7.1%6 others listed: 20.7%31%largest
China664 · 31.1%Russia461 · 21.6%United States417 · 19.5%Germany152 · 7.1%6 others listed443 · 20.7%

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

Which institutions lead Laser Design and Applications research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 237 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 116 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 54 works
  4. 4 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 27 works
  5. 5 Lawrence Livermore National SecurityUnited States 25 works
  6. 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 23 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 22 works
  8. 8 Leibniz AssociationGermany 19 works
  9. 9 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 18 works
  10. 10 Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryUnited States 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Laser Design and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Laser Design and Applications include Kenji Watanabe, Donald G. Truhlar and Takashi Taniguchi.

  1. 1 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  2. 2 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  3. 3 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Edward Hartley Sargent Canada 185k 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 Laser Design and Applications?

The most cited paper in Laser Design and Applications is "Laser Electron Accelerator" (T. Tajima, J. M. Dawson, 1979), with 4,718 citations. Next come "Development of the indirect-drive approach to inertial confinement fusion and the target physics basis for ignition and gain" (2,556) and "Laser Compression of Matter to Super-High Densities: Thermonuclear (CTR) Applications" (1,948).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Laser Electron Accelerator T. Tajima, J. M. Dawson · Physical Review Letters 23 Jul 1979 4,718
2 Development of the indirect-drive approach to inertial confinement fusion and the target physics basis for ignition and gain John D. Lindl · Physics of Plasmas Nov 1995 2,556
3 Laser Compression of Matter to Super-High Densities: Thermonuclear (CTR) Applications John H. Nuckolls, Lowell T. Wood, A.R. Thiessen et al. · Nature Sep 1972 1,948
4 Colloquium : Aligning molecules with strong laser pulses Henrik Stapelfeldt, Tamar Seideman · Reviews of Modern Physics 17 Apr 2003 1,790
5 Studies of multiphoton production of vacuum-ultraviolet radiation in the rare gases A. McPherson, George N. Gibson, Hernan J. Jara et al. · Journal of the Optical Society of America B Apr 1987 1,772
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Where is Laser Design and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Laser Design and Applications research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Tomsk (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Livermore, Tomsk and Nizhny Novgorod.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 188 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 176 works
  3. 3 Saint PetersburgRussia 63 works
  4. 4 TomskRussia 56 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 49 works
  6. 6 LivermoreUnited States 45 works
  7. 7 NovosibirskRussia 40 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 39 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 37 works
  10. 10 HefeiChina 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LivermoreUS · 44.9 works74×
  2. TomskRU · 56.0 works47×
  3. Nizhny NovgorodRU · 31.7 works28×
  4. NovosibirskRU · 39.6 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Laser Design and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Laser Design and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shandong University and Harbin Institute of Technology 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%mean 16.99%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shandong UniversityUniversity of Chines…Harbin Institute of …ETH Zurich
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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
1University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 77.019.3%7.7×27 +28.8%
2Shandong UniversityChina 69.923.4%4.7×13 +85.4%
3Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 66.617.7%6.5×23 +2.9%
4ETH ZurichSwitzerland 60.38.6%9.9×15 -0.8%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 59.718.0%3.3×11 -2.4%
6Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 57.120.5%3.5×14 +116.0%
7University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 52.014.4%5.2×14 +130.8%
8Tsinghua UniversityChina 47.814.7%2.5×13 +49.9%
9National University of Defense TechnologyChina 46.120.8%7.0×12 +50.5%
10University of RochesterUnited States 45.312.5%9.6×9 +28.3%

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 Laser Design and Applications, country by country

Is Laser Design and Applications research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2005. The fastest-growing topics are Laser Design and Applications.

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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 Laser Design and Applications as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Laser Design and Applications 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%Laser Design and Applications9.8% 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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Who leads laser research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Laser Design and Applications research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. By volume, China and Russia publish the most (664 and 461 works in 2022-now).

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