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Solid State Laser Technologies

Solid State Laser Technologies is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 34k research works in it since 1958. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers represents advances in solid-state laser technology, including topics such as ytterbium-doped materials, infrared sources, Raman lasers, crystal growth, diode pumping, femtosecond amplifiers, laser materials, mid-IR lasers, and frequency conversion.

  • Solid-State Lasers
  • Ytterbium
  • Infrared Sources
  • Raman Lasers
  • Crystal Growth
  • Diode Pumping
  • Femtosecond Amplifiers
  • Laser Materials
  • Mid-IR Lasers
  • Frequency Conversion
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1958
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
55% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Solid State Laser Technologies

Which countries lead Solid State Laser Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.7k and 276 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.7k works
  2. 2 United States 276 works
  3. 3 Russia 272 works
  4. 4 Germany 210 works
  5. 5 France 198 works
  6. 6 India 127 works
  7. 7 Japan 112 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 77 works
  9. 9 Czechia 62 works
  10. 10 ?? 58 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: 54.8%United States: 9.0%Russia: 8.8%Germany: 6.8%6 others listed: 20.6%55%largest
China1,687 · 54.8%United States276 · 9.0%Russia272 · 8.8%Germany210 · 6.8%6 others listed633 · 20.6%

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

Which institutions lead Solid State Laser Technologies research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 283 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 145 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 86 works
  4. 4 Shandong UniversityChina 77 works
  5. 5 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 76 works
  6. 6 Changchun University of Science and TechnologyChina 56 works
  7. 7 Leibniz AssociationGermany 43 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 35 works
  9. 9 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 28 works
  10. 10 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Solid State Laser Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Solid State Laser Technologies include Wei Huang, Kai You Wang and Lei Jiang.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  4. 4 L. Li France 211k citations
  5. 5 Mercouri G. Kanatzidis United States 196k citations
  6. 6 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations
  7. 7 R. W. L. Jones United Kingdom 189k citations
  8. 8 Edward Hartley Sargent Canada 185k citations
  9. 9 Qiang Zhang China 184k 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 Solid State Laser Technologies?

The most cited paper in Solid State Laser Technologies is "Upconversion and Anti-Stokes Processes with f and d Ions in Solids" (Francois E. Auzel, 2003), with 5,085 citations. Next come "Generation of Optical Harmonics" (3,287) and "High-sensitivity, single-beam n_2 measurements" (2,658).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Upconversion and Anti-Stokes Processes with f and d Ions in Solids Francois E. Auzel · Chemical Reviews Review 18 Nov 2003 5,085
2 Generation of Optical Harmonics P. A. Franken, Anna Hill, Christopher W. Peters et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access 15 Aug 1961 3,287
3 High-sensitivity, single-beam n_2 measurements Mansoor Sheik‐Bahae, A. A. Said, Eric W. Van Stryland · Optics Letters Open access Sep 1989 2,658
4 Recent developments in compact ultrafast lasers Ursula Keller · Nature Aug 2003 2,301
5 Quasi-phase-matched second harmonic generation: tuning and tolerances M. M. Fejer, Gregory A. Magel, Dieter H. Jundt et al. · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 1992 2,245
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Solid State Laser Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Solid State Laser Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Moscow (Russia) and Changchun (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Jinan, Caen and Nizhny Novgorod.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 345 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 134 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 111 works
  4. 4 ChangchunChina 94 works
  5. 5 JinanChina 90 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 66 works
  7. 7 TianjinChina 65 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 59 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 59 works
  10. 10 WuhanChina 50 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Jinan21.7 works108×
  2. CaenFR · 35.3 works38×
  3. Nizhny NovgorodRU · 29.6 works18×
  4. XuzhouCN · 21.3 works17×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Solid State Laser Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Solid State Laser Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shandong University and South China University 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%20%40%mean 19.34%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wenzhou UniversitySouth China Universi…Shandong UniversityUniversity of Chines…
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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 66.410.2%14.8×76 +28.2%
2Shandong UniversityChina 62.911.4%18.7×77 +8.9%
3South China University of TechnologyChina 60.824.8%6.4×22 -7.4%
4Wenzhou UniversityChina 60.331.2%13.4×9 +13.4%
5Guangdong University of TechnologyChina 60.133.3%5.0×9 +103.6%
6Changchun University of Science and TechnologyChina 55.410.0%80.7×56 +34.2%
7Guangxi UniversityChina 55.225.2%5.8×11 +286.8%
8Xiamen UniversityChina 51.813.4%7.5×20 +41.7%
9Hebei University of TechnologyChina 51.316.2%12.2×15 +299.0%
10Zhejiang UniversityChina 47.317.7%1.9×16 +23.1%

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 Solid State Laser Technologies, country by country

Is Solid State Laser Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Solid State Laser Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Solid State Laser Technologies0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Solid State Laser Technologies 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%Solid State Laser Technologies9.8% 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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