Anna Sponselli

739 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 515 citations indexed

About

Anna Sponselli is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Anna Sponselli has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 515 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 3 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 3 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Anna Sponselli's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (6 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (3 papers) and Near-Field Optical Microscopy (3 papers). Anna Sponselli is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (6 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (3 papers) and Near-Field Optical Microscopy (3 papers). Anna Sponselli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Sweden. Anna Sponselli's co-authors include Fabio Sciarrino, Lorenzo Marrucci, Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo Villoresi, Vincenzo D’Ambrosio, Sergei Slussarenko, Elettra Mari, Filippo Romanato, A. Bianchini and Fabrizio Tamburini and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Optics Express and New Journal of Physics.

In The Last Decade

Anna Sponselli

7 papers receiving 489 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution by Rotation-Invariant Twisted Photons

2014 320 citations Giuseppe Vallone, Vincenzo D’Ambrosio et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anna Sponselli Italy	6	475	196	152	133	107	7	515
Xiaodong Qiu China	15	534 1.1×	237 1.2×	94 0.6×	144 1.1×	63 0.6×	41	637
Daniel Giovannini United Kingdom	10	747 1.6×	183 0.9×	438 2.9×	154 1.2×	102 1.0×	15	851
Xiaoyan Pang China	12	279 0.6×	148 0.8×	49 0.3×	98 0.7×	51 0.5×	47	412
Kevin Günthner Germany	6	640 1.3×	196 1.0×	392 2.6×	189 1.4×	77 0.7×	13	721
Nicholas K. Steinhoff United States	7	414 0.9×	158 0.8×	66 0.4×	278 2.1×	32 0.3×	8	461
Zhensong Wan China	10	443 0.9×	170 0.9×	54 0.4×	162 1.2×	116 1.1×	15	544
Yuanhui Wen China	12	479 1.0×	252 1.3×	33 0.2×	237 1.8×	149 1.4×	27	564
Lifeng Chen China	14	476 1.0×	178 0.9×	85 0.6×	385 2.9×	88 0.8×	31	644
Dongzhi Fu China	4	297 0.6×	160 0.8×	51 0.3×	93 0.7×	41 0.4×	5	325
Nanzhe Hu United States	12	431 0.9×	191 1.0×	31 0.2×	432 3.2×	91 0.9×	57	659

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anna Sponselli

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Anna Sponselli. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Anna Sponselli 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 Anna Sponselli. Anna Sponselli is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Vallone, Giuseppe, Anna Sponselli, Vincenzo D’Ambrosio, et al.. (2016). Birth and evolution of an optical vortex. Optics Express. 24(15). 16390–16390. 18 indexed citations

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Vallone, Giuseppe, Vincenzo D’Ambrosio, Anna Sponselli, et al.. (2014). Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution by Rotation-Invariant Twisted Photons. Physical Review Letters. 113(6). 60503–60503. 320 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Naletto, G., C. Barbieri, Enrico Verroi, et al.. (2013). Aqueye Plus: a very fast single photon counter for astronomical photometry to quantum limits equipped with an Optical Vortex coronagraph. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8875. 88750D–88750D. 7 indexed citations

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Lavery, Martin P. J., David J. Robertson, Anna Sponselli, et al.. (2013). Efficient measurement of an optical orbital-angular-momentum spectrum comprising more than 50 states. New Journal of Physics. 15(1). 13024–13024. 77 indexed citations

5.

Sponselli, Anna & Martin P. J. Lavery. (2013). Preliminary Study of Orbital Angular Momentum Spectrum Detection for Celestial Light. PTu3F.6–PTu3F.6. 1 indexed citations

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Tamburini, Fabrizio, B. Thidé, Elettra Mari, et al.. (2012). Reply to Comment on ‘Encoding many channels on the same frequency through radio vorticity: first experimental test’. New Journal of Physics. 14(11). 118002–118002. 85 indexed citations

7.

Tamburini, Fabrizio, G. Anzolin, A. Bianchini, et al.. (2009). Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum and Optical Vortices for Astronomical Coronagraphy from Ground and Space Telescopes. Earth Moon and Planets. 105(2-4). 283–288. 7 indexed citations

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