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Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics

Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1961. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores advancements in photonic crystal fiber technology, focusing on supercontinuum generation, high-power fiber lasers, nonlinear optics, mid-infrared generation, dispersion control, Raman scattering, modal instabilities, and gas sensing applications.

  • Supercontinuum Generation
  • Fiber Lasers
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • High-Power Laser
  • Microstructured Optical Fibers
  • Mid-Infrared Generation
  • Dispersion Control
  • Raman Scattering
  • Modal Instabilities
  • Gas Sensing
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1961
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics

Which countries lead Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2k and 275 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2k works
  2. 2 United States 275 works
  3. 3 India 228 works
  4. 4 Russia 188 works
  5. 5 Germany 180 works
  6. 6 France 170 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 168 works
  8. 8 Japan 133 works
  9. 9 Canada 81 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 79 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: 56.7%United States: 7.9%India: 6.6%Russia: 5.4%6 others listed: 23.4%57%largest
China1,972 · 56.7%United States275 · 7.9%India228 · 6.6%Russia188 · 5.4%6 others listed812 · 23.4%

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

Which institutions lead Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics research, followed by National University of Defense Technology and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 140 works
  2. 2 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 116 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 86 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 79 works
  5. 5 University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom 62 works
  6. 6 Shenzhen UniversityChina 49 works
  7. 7 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 43 works
  8. 8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 41 works
  9. 9 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 40 works
  10. 10 Shanghai UniversityChina 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics include Wei Huang, Xiaogang Wang and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  5. 5 L. Li France 211k citations
  6. 6 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  7. 7 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  8. 8 Lin Gu China 159k citations
  9. 9 Huan Liu Australia 148k citations
  10. 10 Andrea Carlo Ferrari United Kingdom 143k 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 Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics?

The most cited paper in Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics is "Nonlinear Fiber Optics" (Govind Prasad Agrawal, 2007), with 9,064 citations. Next come "Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber" (4,374) and "Photonic Crystal Fibers" (3,851).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Nonlinear Fiber Optics Govind Prasad Agrawal · Lecture notes in physics Book chapter 24 Jun 2007 9,064
2 Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber John M. Dudley, Goëry Genty, Stéphane Coen · Reviews of Modern Physics 4 Oct 2006 4,374
3 Photonic Crystal Fibers Philip St.J. Russell · Science 16 Jan 2003 3,851
4 Space-division multiplexing in optical fibres David John Richardson, John M. Fini, Lynn E. Nelson · Nature Photonics Open access 29 Apr 2013 3,390
5 Fiber Bragg grating technology fundamentals and overview K. O. Hill, G. Meltz · Journal of Lightwave Technology 1997 3,060
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics research done?

The largest centres of Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Changsha (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jena and Southampton.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 361 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 143 works
  3. 3 ChangshaChina 135 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 114 works
  5. 5 ShenzhenChina 112 works
  6. 6 TianjinChina 101 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 100 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 85 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 76 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 63 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JenaDE · 53.8 works30×
  2. SouthamptonGB · 62.4 works24×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics?

Among universities, judged by research, Pabna University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen University and University of Southampton 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 17.72%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Pabna University of …Shenzhen Technology …University of Southa…Shenzhen 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.

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
1Pabna University of Science and TechnologyBangladesh 63.532.8%107.0×11 -
2Shenzhen UniversityChina 56.213.8%17.8×49 +2.3%
3University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom 56.114.6%32.4×62 -12.4%
4Shenzhen Technology UniversityChina 52.516.4%39.4×20 +304.2%
5National University of Defense TechnologyChina 52.410.0%40.4×116 -6.6%
6Yanshan UniversityChina 48.823.6%25.5×33 -7.4%
7Northeastern UniversityChina 48.115.0%8.8×29 -8.4%
8South China University of TechnologyChina 48.014.1%5.5×22 +22.0%
9Liaocheng UniversityChina 47.521.8%17.8×12 +337.5%
10South China Normal UniversityChina 47.115.1%18.3×24 +5.7%

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 Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics, country by country

Is Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics 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%Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics9.6% 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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