Emil Wolf
Impact in
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics top 0.01%
- Random lasers and scattering media
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 0.01%
- Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Quantum optics and atomic interactions
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
Papers in
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- Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics 125
- Quantum optics and atomic interactions 42
- Optical and Acousto-Optic Technologies 33
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications 30
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- Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry 65
- Near-Field Optical Microscopy 27
- Co-authors
- Max Born (2 shared papers)L. Mandeļ (12 shared papers)Max Born (3 shared papers)Eugene Hecht (1 shared paper)Pierre Meystre (1 shared paper)Olga Korotkova (25 shared papers)Greg Gbur (18 shared papers)Yajun Li (9 shared papers)
- Journals
- Optics Communications (59 papers)Optics Letters (51 papers)Journal of the Optical Society of America A (39 papers)Journal of Modern Optics (25 papers)Physics Letters A (11 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesNetherlandsIndia
In The Last Decade
Emil Wolf
270 papers receiving 29.3k citations
Emil Wolf's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 173
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics 2.5k
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 21.1k
- Structural Biology 485
- Biomedical Engineering 10.9k
- Biophysics 1.3k
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Co-authors
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All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 277 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Principles of Optics Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 8346 |
| 2 | Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics Hit paper breakdown → | 1995 | 5705 |
| 3 | Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 2872 |
| 4 | Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics Hit paper breakdown → | 1996 | 1828 |
| 5 | Three-dimensional structure determination of semi-transparent objects from holographic data Hit paper breakdown → | 1969 | 914 |
| 6 | Unified theory of coherence and polarization of random electromagnetic beams Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 677 |
| 7 | Introduction to the theory of coherence and polarization of light Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 594 |
| 8 | 1982 | 449 | |
| 9 | 2002 | 365 | |
| 10 | 1986 | 308 | |
| 11 | 1981 | 298 | |
| 12 | 2003 | 283 | |
| 13 | Principles of Optics Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light | 1959 | 274 |
| 14 | 2004 | 225 | |
| 15 | 1987 | 206 | |
| 16 | 1978 | 203 | |
| 17 | 2005 | 192 | |
| 18 | 2004 | 179 | |
| 19 | 1996 | 179 | |
| 20 | Generalization of the Maggi-Rubinowicz Theory of the Boundary Diffraction Wave—Part I† Hit paper breakdown → | 1962 | 176 |
About Emil Wolf
Emil Wolf is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Acoustics and Ultrasonics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 277 papers that have together received 31.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (125 papers), Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (65 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (42 papers), Optical and Acousto-Optic Technologies (33 papers), Random lasers and scattering media (32 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (30 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (28 papers) and Near-Field Optical Microscopy (27 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Acoustics and Ultrasonics (2.5k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (21.1k citations), Structural Biology (485 citations), Biomedical Engineering (10.9k citations) and Biophysics (1.3k citations). Emil Wolf has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and India. Frequent co-authors include Max Born, L. Mandeļ, Max Born, Eugene Hecht, Pierre Meystre, Olga Korotkova, Greg Gbur, Yajun Li, Tomohiro Shirai and Daniel F. V. James. Their work appears in journals such as Optics Communications, Optics Letters, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Journal of Modern Optics and Physics Letters A.
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