Byron M. Welsh

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
103 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Byron M. Welsh is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Byron M. Welsh has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 58 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 39 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Byron M. Welsh's work include Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (75 papers), Optical Systems and Laser Technology (37 papers) and Advanced optical system design (31 papers). Byron M. Welsh is often cited by papers focused on Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (75 papers), Optical Systems and Laser Technology (37 papers) and Advanced optical system design (31 papers). Byron M. Welsh collaborates with scholars based in United States. Byron M. Welsh's co-authors include Michael C. Roggemann, Chester S. Gardner, David J. Lee, LuAnne Thompson, Matthew R. Whiteley, Victor M. Bright, Brent L. Ellerbroek, William D. Cowan, Robert Q. Fugate and Troy A. Rhoadarmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Reviews of Modern Physics, Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

In The Last Decade

Byron M. Welsh

96 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Imaging Through Turbulence

1995 519 citations Michael C. Roggemann, Byron M. Welsh profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Byron M. Welsh United States	18	1.4k	922	626	515	169	103	1.8k
Michael C. Roggemann United States	23	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	731 1.2×	691 1.3×	221 1.3×	166	2.4k
Robert K. Tyson United States	17	1.3k 1.0×	946 1.0×	661 1.1×	208 0.4×	155 0.9×	53	1.7k
H. T. Yura United States	21	976 0.7×	922 1.0×	746 1.2×	195 0.4×	93 0.6×	77	1.9k
Jean‐Marc Conan France	22	1.5k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	771 1.2×	276 0.5×	104 0.6×	101	1.7k
Stuart A. Collins United States	14	1.1k 0.8×	563 0.6×	455 0.7×	232 0.5×	82 0.5×	36	1.9k
Brent L. Ellerbroek United States	29	2.4k 1.8×	1.7k 1.9×	1.1k 1.8×	501 1.0×	175 1.0×	192	2.7k
C. Roddier United States	22	967 0.7×	283 0.3×	319 0.5×	533 1.0×	131 0.8×	72	1.6k
Glenn A. Tyler United States	16	943 0.7×	559 0.6×	378 0.6×	124 0.2×	79 0.5×	35	1.1k
A. Labeyrie France	22	1.4k 1.0×	342 0.4×	487 0.8×	417 0.8×	265 1.6×	119	2.1k
Gérard Rousset France	20	1.2k 0.9×	716 0.8×	572 0.9×	231 0.4×	121 0.7×	117	1.6k

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Welsh, Byron M., et al.. (2000). <title>Far-field beam shaping and steering using phase-retrieval-based wavefront control</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4124. 212–222. 2 indexed citations

Roggemann, Michael C., et al.. (2000). <title>Algorithm to reduce anisoplanatism effects on infrared images</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4125. 140–149. 5 indexed citations

Welsh, Byron M., et al.. (2000). <title>Tracking and higher-order correction tradeoffs for beam correction through strong turbulence</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4125. 87–97. 1 indexed citations

Welsh, Byron M., et al.. (1999). Symmetric convolution of asymmetric multidimensional sequences using discrete trigonometric transforms. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 8(5). 640–651. 7 indexed citations

Welsh, Byron M.. (1999). <title>Spatial covariance properties of wideband target signatures</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3721. 474–484. 1 indexed citations

Whiteley, Matthew R., Michael C. Roggemann, & Byron M. Welsh. (1998). Temporal properties of the Zernike expansion coefficients of turbulence-induced phase aberrations for aperture and source motion. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 15(4). 993–993. 20 indexed citations

Whiteley, Matthew R., Byron M. Welsh, & Michael C. Roggemann. (1998). Optimal modal wave-front compensation for anisoplanatism in adaptive optics. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 15(8). 2097–2097. 17 indexed citations

Welsh, Byron M., et al.. (1998). Constrained least-squares estimation in deconvolution from wave-front sensing. Optics Communications. 151(1-3). 93–100. 6 indexed citations

Cowan, William D., et al.. (1998). Aberration-correction results from a segmented microelectromechanical deformable mirror and a refractive lenslet array. Optics Letters. 23(8). 645–645. 15 indexed citations

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Lee, David J., et al.. (1997). Evaluation of least-squares phase-diversity technique for space telescope wave-front sensing. Applied Optics. 36(35). 9186–9186. 17 indexed citations

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Welsh, Byron M., et al.. (1997). Reconstruction of low-light images by use of the vector Wiener filter. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 14(10). 2678–2678. 3 indexed citations

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Roggemann, Michael C., Byron M. Welsh, & Robert Q. Fugate. (1997). Improving the resolution of ground-based telescopes. Reviews of Modern Physics. 69(2). 437–506. 39 indexed citations

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Welsh, Byron M., et al.. (1996). Maximum a priori estimation of wavefront slopes using a Hartmann wavefront sensor.. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2827. 68–78. 1 indexed citations

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Welsh, Byron M., et al.. (1996). Characterization of atmospheric turbulence using wavefront slope measurements. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2828. 210–210. 1 indexed citations

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Roggemann, Michael C., et al.. (1996). Statistical anisotropy in free turbulence for mixing layers at high Reynolds numbers. Applied Optics. 35(24). 4879–4879. 7 indexed citations

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Welsh, Byron M., et al.. (1996). Processing wave-front-sensor slope measurements using artificial neural networks. Applied Optics. 35(21). 4238–4238. 9 indexed citations

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Welsh, Byron M., et al.. (1995). Optical propagation in non-Kolmogorov atmospheric turbulence. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2471. 181–181. 164 indexed citations

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Welsh, Byron M., et al.. (1992). Modal control for an adaptive optics system using LQG compensation. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 18(6). 421–433. 5 indexed citations

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Welsh, Byron M.. (1991). <title>Sensing refractive-turbulence profiles (C<formula><inf><roman>n</roman></inf></formula><formula><sup><roman>2</roman></sup></formula>) using wavefront phase measurements from multiple reference sources</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1487. 91–102. 1 indexed citations

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Welsh, Byron M. & Chester S. Gardner. (1989). Performance analysis of adaptive-optics systems using laser guide stars and sensors. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 6(12). 1913–1913. 75 indexed citations

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