Alan E. Willner

1.7k total citations
119 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

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 119 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 65 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 18 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alan E. Willner's work include Optical Network Technologies (67 papers), Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (42 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (35 papers). Alan E. Willner is often cited by papers focused on Optical Network Technologies (67 papers), Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (42 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (35 papers). Alan E. Willner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Alan E. Willner's co-authors include Cong Liu, Moshe Tur, Zhe Zhao, Long Li, Yongxiong Ren, Robert W. Boyd, Guodong Xie, M. Zahirul Alam, Yiyu Zhou and Yinwen Cao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Applied Physics Letters and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Alan E. Willner

113 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan E. Willner United States	17	865	742	250	174	99	119	1.2k
Haoqian Song United States	16	814 0.9×	841 1.1×	344 1.4×	147 0.8×	134 1.4×	105	1.2k
Runzhou Zhang United States	19	906 1.0×	938 1.3×	412 1.6×	180 1.0×	146 1.5×	123	1.4k
Asher J. Willner United States	15	582 0.7×	738 1.0×	270 1.1×	125 0.7×	82 0.8×	26	867
Xinzhou Su United States	14	607 0.7×	612 0.8×	258 1.0×	131 0.8×	97 1.0×	113	938
Hao Song United States	17	910 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	455 1.8×	239 1.4×	153 1.5×	139	1.5k
Kaiheng Zou United States	19	1.1k 1.3×	937 1.3×	261 1.0×	123 0.7×	86 0.9×	133	1.5k
Amir Minoofar United States	12	476 0.6×	374 0.5×	139 0.6×	86 0.5×	71 0.7×	64	674
Ahmed Almaiman United States	18	1.0k 1.2×	794 1.1×	229 0.9×	127 0.7×	63 0.6×	145	1.3k
Jun Qu China	16	375 0.4×	785 1.1×	342 1.4×	47 0.3×	76 0.8×	58	846

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Su, Xinzhou, Asher Novick, Hao Song, et al.. (2024). Reconfigurable Silicon Photonic Transmitter for Space Based Communications Nodes. W4G.5–W4G.5.

Zhou, Huibin, Xinzhou Su, Hao Song, et al.. (2024). Experimental Demonstration of Underwater Optical Ranging with Enhanced Accuracy Under Scattering Conditions Using Multiple Bessel Modes. W4B.6–W4B.6. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Huibin, Xinzhou Su, Hao Song, et al.. (2024). Experimental Demonstration of Underwater Optical Ranging With Enhanced Accuracy in Scattering Medium Using Multiple Bessel Modes. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 43(3). 1123–1129. 4 indexed citations

Minoofar, Amir, Huibin Zhou, Ahmed Almaiman, et al.. (2024). Reconfigurable Optical Recognition of 3 Independent Data Patterns Using Intra-Symbol Time Multiplexing and Nonlinear Wave Mixing. JTu7A.4–JTu7A.4. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yingning, et al.. (2024). Experimental Demonstration of Longitudinally Tailored Dynamic Motion of a Spatiotemporal Wave Packet. SW4A.2–SW4A.2. 1 indexed citations

Song, Hao, Huibin Zhou, Yingning Wang, et al.. (2023). Experimental Demonstration of 0.4-meter Ranging Through Underwater Scattering with 20-mm Resolution Using z- dependent Angular Rotation of a Spatially Structured Beam. M3F.4–M3F.4. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Cong, M. Zahirul Alam, Kai Pang, et al.. (2021). Photon Acceleration Using a Time-Varying Epsilon-near-Zero Metasurface. ACS Photonics. 8(3). 716–720. 34 indexed citations

Song, Haoqian, Runzhou Zhang, Nanzhe Hu, et al.. (2021). Experimental Investigation on Degradation of an Orbital- Angular-Momentum Beam Passing Through Dynamic Aerosol and Air-Water Interface for Air-to-Water Communications. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. SM4A.5–SM4A.5. 1 indexed citations

Song, Haoqian, Runzhou Zhang, Nanzhe Hu, et al.. (2021). Dynamic aerosol and dynamic air‐water interface curvature effects on a 2‐Gbit/s free‐space optical link using orbital‐angular‐momentum multiplexing. Nanophotonics. 11(4). 885–895. 7 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yiyu, M. Zahirul Alam, Mohammad Karimi, et al.. (2020). Broadband frequency translation through time refraction in an epsilon-near-zero material. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2180–2180. 164 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhe, Yan Yan, Amir Arbabi, et al.. (2017). Orbital angular momentum beams generated by passive dielectric phase masks and their performance in a communication link. Optics Letters. 42(14). 2746–2746. 10 indexed citations

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Ren, Yongxiong, Long Li, Zhe Wang, et al.. (2016). Orbital Angular Momentum-based Space Division Multiplexing for High-capacity Underwater Optical Communications. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 33306–33306. 178 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lin, Muping Song, Jeng-Yuan Yang, et al.. (2008). Generating spectral-efficient duobinary data format from silicon ring resonator modulators. 1–2. 2 indexed citations

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Willner, Alan E.. (2004). Physical impairments & network limitations when interconnecting multiple DOS-N routers. 1. 78–80. 1 indexed citations

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Song, Yong‐Won, et al.. (2003). Enhanced suppression of nonlinearity-induced crosstalk in WDM systems using optical polarization-shift-keying. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1731–1733. 5 indexed citations

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Yan, Lianshan, et al.. (2002). Simple Measurement of the Chirp Parameter of Optical Modulators Using Partial Optical Filtering. European Conference on Optical Communication. 3. 1–2. 7 indexed citations

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Yu, Qian, et al.. (2002). Periodic Polarization Scrambling with Uniformly Distributed SOPs on the Poincarè Sphere. European Conference on Optical Communication. 3. 1–2. 3 indexed citations

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Starodubov, D.S., V. Grubsky, Jack Feinberg, et al.. (1998). Novel Fiber Amplitude Modulators for Dynamic Channel Power Equalization in WDM Systems. Optics and Photonics News. 9(5). 61. 10 indexed citations

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Willner, Alan E., et al.. (1995). Active equalization of non-uniform EDFA gain by using multiple AOTF passbands for megameter WDM transmission. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 3 indexed citations

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Willner, Alan E.. (1990). Analytical model for performance optimization of a FSK-to-ASK system using a Fabry-Perot demodulator. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1 indexed citations

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