Topic · Photonic and Optical Devices
Most cited papers in Photonic and Optical Devices
What are the most cited papers in Photonic and Optical Devices?
The most cited paper in Photonic and Optical Devices is "Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations" (Hendrik J. Monkhorst, J.D. Pack, 1976), with 71,952 citations. Next come "Surface plasmon subwavelength optics" (11,670) and "Improved tetrahedron method for Brillouin-zone integrations" (7,345).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,559 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations Hendrik J. Monkhorst, J.D. Pack · Physical review. B, Solid state | 15 Jun 1976 | 71,952 |
| 2 | Surface plasmon subwavelength optics William L. Barnes, Alain Dereux, Thomas W. Ebbesen · Nature | Aug 2003 | 11,670 |
| 3 | Improved tetrahedron method for Brillouin-zone integrations Peter E. Blöchl, Ove Jepsen, O. K. Andersen · Physical review. B, Condensed matter | 15 Jun 1994 | 7,345 |
| 4 | Cavity optomechanics Markus Aspelmeyer, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Florian Marquardt · Reviews of Modern Physics | 30 Dec 2014 | 5,796 |
| 5 | Surface plasmon resonance sensors: review Jiřı́ Homola, Sinclair S. Yee, Günter Gauglitz · Sensors and Actuators B Chemical | 25 Jan 1999 | 5,472 |
| 6 | Optical microcavities Kerry J. Vahala · Nature | Aug 2003 | 4,795 |
| 7 | Plasmonics: Merging Photonics and Electronics at Nanoscale Dimensions Ekmel Özbay · Science | 12 Jan 2006 | 4,572 |
| 8 | Plasmonics for extreme light concentration and manipulation Jon A. Schuller, Edward S. Barnard, Wenshan Cai et al. · Nature Materials | 19 Feb 2010 | 4,388 |
| 9 | Interspecimen Comparison of the Refractive Index of Fused Silica*,† Irving H. Malitson · Journal of the Optical Society of America | Oct 1965 | 4,228 |
| 10 | The Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence Roy J. Glauber · Physical Review | 15 Jun 1963 | 4,088 |
| 11 | Plasmonics beyond the diffraction limit Dmitri K. Gramotnev, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi · Nature Photonics | 29 Jan 2010 | 3,922 |
| 12 | Fundamentals of Photonics Brian Culshaw, Jose Miguel López-Higuera | 18 Dec 2012 | 3,739 |
| 13 | Topological photonics Tomoki Ozawa, Hannah M. Price, Alberto Amo et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics | 25 Mar 2019 | 3,735 |
| 14 | On the performance of artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm Derviş Karaboğa, B. Basturk · Applied Soft Computing | 4 Jun 2007 | 3,691 |
| 15 | Topological photonics Ling Lü, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić · Nature Photonics | 24 Oct 2014 | 3,674 |
| 16 | Fiber grating sensors Alan D. Kersey, Michael A. Davis, H.J. Patrick et al. · Journal of Lightwave Technology | 1997 | 3,599 |
| 17 | A graphene-based broadband optical modulator Ming Liu, Xiaobo Yin, Erick Ulin-Avila et al. · Nature | 6 May 2011 | 3,419 |
| 18 | Fiber grating spectra T. Erdoğan · Journal of Lightwave Technology | 1997 | 3,364 |
| 19 | Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits Yichen Shen, Nicholas C. Harris, Scott A. Skirlo et al. · Nature Photonics | 12 Jun 2017 | 3,218 |
| 20 | Photonic crystals: putting a new twist on light John D. Joannopoulos, Pierre R. Villeneuve, Shanhui Fan · Nature | 13 Mar 1997 | 3,153 |
| 21 | A Dielectric Resonator Method of Measuring Inductive Capacities in the Millimeter Range Basil W. Hakki, Paul D. Coleman · IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques | Jul 1960 | 3,112 |
| 22 | Fiber Bragg grating technology fundamentals and overview K. O. Hill, G. Meltz · Journal of Lightwave Technology | 1997 | 3,060 |
| 23 | Transparent, Conductive Carbon Nanotube Films Zhuangchun Wu, Zhihong Chen, Xu Sheng Du et al. · Science | 26 Aug 2004 | 2,962 |
| 24 | All-silica single-mode optical fiber with photonic crystal cladding J. C. Knight, T. A. Birks, Philip St.J. Russell et al. · Optics Letters | Oct 1996 | 2,961 |
| 25 | Possible Realization of Directional Optical Waveguides in Photonic Crystals with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry F. D. M. Haldane, S. Raghu · Physical Review Letters | 10 Jan 2008 | 2,824 |
| 26 | External optical feedback effects on semiconductor injection laser properties Roy Lang, Kenichi P. KOBAYASHI · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics | Mar 1980 | 2,815 |
| 27 | High-Q photonic nanocavity in a two-dimensional photonic crystal Yoshihiro Akahane, Takashi Asano, Bong-Shik Song et al. · Nature | Oct 2003 | 2,749 |
| 28 | Terahertz semiconductor-heterostructure laser Rüdeger Köhler, Alessandro Tredicucci, Fabio Beltram et al. · Nature | May 2002 | 2,723 |
| 29 | Optical multi-mode interference devices based on self-imaging: principles and applications L.B. Soldano, E.C.M. Pennings · Journal of Lightwave Technology | Apr 1995 | 2,677 |
| 30 | Silicon microring resonators Wim Bogaerts, Peter De Heyn, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh et al. · Laser & Photonics Review | 13 Sep 2011 | 2,632 |
| 31 | Exact solutions for nondiffracting beams I The scalar theory J. Durnin · Journal of the Optical Society of America A | Apr 1987 | 2,630 |
| 32 | Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators operating at CMOS-compatible voltages Cheng Wang, Mian Zhang, Xi Chen et al. · Nature | 21 Sep 2018 | 2,626 |
| 33 | All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks Xing Lin, Yair Rivenson, Nezih Tolga Yardimci et al. · Science | 26 Jul 2018 | 2,588 |
| 34 | Graphene photodetectors for high-speed optical communications Thomas Mueller, Fengnian Xia, Phaedon Avouris · Nature Photonics | 28 Mar 2010 | 2,483 |
| 35 | Silicon optical modulators Graham T. Reed, Goran Z. Mashanovich, Frédéric Y. Gardes et al. · Nature Photonics | 30 Jul 2010 | 2,473 |
| 36 | Theory of the linewidth of semiconductor lasers CHARLES H. HENRY · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics | Feb 1982 | 2,457 |
| 37 | Plasmon lasers at deep subwavelength scale Rupert F. Oulton, Volker J. Sorger, Thomas Zentgraf et al. · Nature | 30 Aug 2009 | 2,451 |
| 38 | Micrometre-scale silicon electro-optic modulator Qianfan Xu, Bradley S. Schmidt, Sameer Pradhan et al. · Nature | May 2005 | 2,396 |
| 39 | Existence of a photonic gap in periodic dielectric structures Kin Ming Ho, Che Ting Chan, C. M. Soukoulis · Physical Review Letters | 17 Dec 1990 | 2,395 |
| 40 | Two-Dimensional Photonic Band-Gap Defect Mode Laser Oskar J. Painter, R. K. Lee, A. Scherer et al. · Science | 11 Jun 1999 | 2,364 |
| 41 | From metamaterials to metadevices Nikolay I. Zheludev, Yuri S. Kivshar · Nature Materials | 23 Oct 2012 | 2,333 |
| 42 | Laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator into its quantum ground state Jasper Fuk‐Woo Chan, Thiago P. Mayer Alegre, Amir H. Safavi‐Naeini et al. · Nature | Oct 2011 | 2,329 |
| 43 | Optical frequency comb generation from a monolithic microresonator Pascal Del’Haye, Albert Schließer, O. Arcizet et al. · Nature | Dec 2007 | 2,302 |
| 44 | Local detection of electromagnetic energy transport below the diffraction limit in metal nanoparticle plasmon waveguides Stefan Alexander Maier, Pieter G. Kik, Harry A. Atwater et al. · Nature Materials | 2 Mar 2003 | 2,286 |
| 45 | Optical Waves in Layered Media Pochi Yeh, Michael Thomson Hendry · Physics Today | 1990 | 2,278 |
| 46 | Vacuum Rabi splitting with a single quantum dot in a photonic crystal nanocavity Tomoyuki Yoshie, Axel Scherer, J. Hendrickson et al. · Nature | Nov 2004 | 2,261 |
| 47 | Far-infrared time-domain spectroscopy with terahertz beams of dielectrics and semiconductors D. Grischkowsky, Søren Rud Keiding, Martin van Exter et al. · Journal of the Optical Society of America B | Oct 1990 | 2,249 |
| 48 | Photosensitivity in optical fiber waveguides: Application to reflection filter fabrication K. O. Hill, Yoshihisa Fujii, Derwyn C. Johnson et al. · Applied Physics Letters | 15 May 1978 | 2,240 |
| 49 | Rigorous coupled-wave analysis of planar-grating diffraction M. G. Jim Moharam, Thomas K. Gaylord · Journal of the Optical Society of America | Jul 1981 | 2,228 |
| 50 | Channel plasmon subwavelength waveguide components including interferometers and ring resonators Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Valentyn S. Volkov, Éloïse Devaux et al. · Nature | Mar 2006 | 2,224 |
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