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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, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-13%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Laser Design and Applications research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (610 and 444 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 610 works
  2. 2 Russia 444 works
  3. 3 United States 391 works
  4. 4 Germany 138 works
  5. 5 France 133 works
  6. 6 Japan 97 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 62 works
  8. 8 India 50 works
  9. 9 Czechia 40 works
  10. 10 Italy 34 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: 30.5%Russia: 22.2%United States: 19.6%Germany: 6.9%6 others listed: 20.8%31%largest
China610 · 30.5%Russia444 · 22.2%United States391 · 19.6%Germany138 · 6.9%6 others listed416 · 20.8%

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

Which institutions lead Laser Design and Applications research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Laser Design and Applications research, followed by P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Sciences China 35 works
  2. 2 P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russia 32 works
  3. 3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China 25 works
  4. 4 Lawrence Livermore National Security United States 25 works
  5. 5 Harbin Institute of Technology China 22 works
  6. 6 V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics Russia 21 works
  7. 7 Prokhorov General Physics Institute Russia 20 works
  8. 8 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory United States 18 works
  9. 9 Ioffe Institute Russia 18 works
  10. 10 Changchun University of Science and Technology China 17 works

Where is Laser Design and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Laser Design and Applications research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Moscow Russia 181 works
  2. 2 Beijing China 164 works
  3. 3 Saint Petersburg Russia 61 works
  4. 4 Tomsk Russia 52 works
  5. 5 Shanghai China 46 works
  6. 6 Livermore United States 44 works
  7. 7 Novosibirsk Russia 39 works
  8. 8 Xi'an China 37 works
  9. 9 Paris France 35 works
  10. 10 Hefei China 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LivermoreUS · 44.0 works73×
  2. TomskRU · 51.9 works44×
  3. Nizhny NovgorodRU · 30.4 works29×
  4. NovosibirskRU · 39.0 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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 Rochester, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and ETH Zurich 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%5%10%15%mean 3.43%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Rochester: 9, 12.0%University of Chinese Academy of Sciences: 25, 6.5%ETH Zurich: 15, 1.1%National Research Nuclear University MEPhI: 10, 0.0%ITMO University: 8, 0.0%Czech Technical University in Prague: 14, 1.1%National Research Tomsk State University: 10, 1.6%National University of Defense Technology: 11, 9.9%Lomonosov Moscow State University: 14, 2.1%University of Central Florida: 9, 0.0%University of Roches…University of Chines…ETH ZurichNational Research Nu…
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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
1University of Rochester United States 63.712.0%13.3×9 +15.5%
2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China 51.56.5%6.7×25 -15.0%
3ETH Zurich Switzerland 47.51.1%9.5×15 +12.9%
4National Research Nuclear University MEPhI Russia 44.90.0%34.6×10 +328.1%
5ITMO University Russia 44.20.0%21.4×8 +229.3%
6Czech Technical University in Prague Czechia 43.81.1%26.5×14 -1.7%
7National Research Tomsk State University Russia 43.61.6%23.8×10 +66.2%
8National University of Defense Technology China 42.59.9%6.3×11 -55.3%
9Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia 39.62.1%7.3×14 -1.9%
10University of Central Florida United States 39.60.0%10.4×9 +112.8%

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 Laser Design and Applications research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 13% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2005.

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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.