Alan E. Willner

629 papers and 19.2k indexed citations i.

About

Alan E. Willner is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan E. Willner has authored 629 papers receiving a total of 19.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 578 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 302 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 46 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alan E. Willner’s work include Optical Network Technologies (410 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (286 papers) and Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (275 papers). Alan E. Willner is often cited by papers focused on Optical Network Technologies (410 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (286 papers) and Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (275 papers). Alan E. Willner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and China. Alan E. Willner's co-authors include Moshe Tur, Hao Huang, Yongxiong Ren, Yang Yue, Yan Yan, Nisar Ahmed, Jian Wang, Jeng-Yuan Yang, S. Dolinar and Irfan Fazal and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan E. Willner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alan E. Willner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alan E. Willner based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alan E. Willner. Alan E. Willner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by Alan E. Willner

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Countries citing papers authored by Alan E. Willner

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