D. Popa

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

D. Popa is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Popa has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 50 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 14 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in D. Popa's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (49 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (38 papers) and Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (22 papers). D. Popa is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (49 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (38 papers) and Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (22 papers). D. Popa collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Romania. D. Popa's co-authors include Tawfique Hasan, Andrea C. Ferrari, Felice Torrisi, Z. Sun, Fengqiu Wang, Francesco Bonaccorso, Giulia Privitera, Florin Udrea, E. J. R. Kelleher and Xueming Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

D. Popa

76 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

Graphene Mode-Locked Ultrafast Laser 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2011 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Graphene Mode-Locked Ultrafast Laser
    2010 1.7k citations Z. Sun, Tawfique Hasan et al. profile →
  2. Graphene Q-switched, tunable fiber laser
    2011 394 citations D. Popa, Z. Sun et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
D. Popa United Kingdom 24 3.8k 3.5k 1.1k 796 207 84 4.8k
A. Martinez France 29 3.4k 0.9× 3.6k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 735 0.9× 251 1.2× 124 4.7k
Linbo Shao United States 26 2.6k 0.7× 2.4k 0.7× 740 0.7× 585 0.7× 150 0.7× 66 3.6k
Axel Schülzgen United States 37 2.3k 0.6× 3.8k 1.1× 537 0.5× 574 0.7× 147 0.7× 241 4.7k
Minghao Qi United States 41 4.3k 1.1× 4.9k 1.4× 684 0.6× 852 1.1× 321 1.6× 168 6.2k
B. M. A. Rahman United Kingdom 37 2.2k 0.6× 4.8k 1.4× 501 0.5× 928 1.2× 298 1.4× 347 5.3k
Günther Roelkens Belgium 54 5.6k 1.5× 9.8k 2.8× 888 0.8× 1.1k 1.4× 182 0.9× 474 10.3k
Mingbin Yu Singapore 42 3.4k 0.9× 5.6k 1.6× 891 0.8× 1.2k 1.6× 497 2.4× 305 6.3k
Ch. Heyn Germany 34 3.1k 0.8× 1.9k 0.5× 1.3k 1.1× 806 1.0× 231 1.1× 211 3.8k
Johann Peter Reithmaier Germany 30 3.9k 1.0× 3.2k 0.9× 1.4k 1.3× 865 1.1× 176 0.9× 274 5.1k
Fumio Koyama Japan 39 5.0k 1.3× 7.7k 2.2× 469 0.4× 688 0.9× 193 0.9× 701 8.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by D. Popa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. Popa

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Qin, Yuan, Matthew Porter, Ming Xiao, et al.. (2025). 10 kV E-mode GaN HEMT: Physics for breakdown voltage upscaling. Applied Physics Letters. 127(4). 1 indexed citations
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Hopper, Richard, D. Popa, Emanuela Maggioni, et al.. (2024). Multi-channel portable odor delivery device for self-administered and rapid smell testing. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 141–141. 3 indexed citations
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Hopper, Richard, D. Popa, Florin Udrea, Syed Zeeshan Ali, & Phillip Stanley‐Marbell. (2022). Miniaturized thermal acoustic gas sensor based on a CMOS microhotplate and MEMS microphone. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 1690–1690. 13 indexed citations
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Banciu, Daniel Dumitru, Dragoş Crețoiu, Sanda Maria Creţoiu, et al.. (2022). Telocytes’ Role in Modulating Gut Motility Function and Development: Medical Hypotheses and Literature Review. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(13). 7017–7017. 7 indexed citations
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Ali, Syed Zeeshan, et al.. (2021). Modeling of CMOS Single Membrane Thermopile Detector Arrays. IEEE Sensors Journal. 22(2). 1366–1373. 5 indexed citations
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Popa, D. & Florin Udrea. (2019). Towards Integrated Mid-Infrared Gas Sensors. Sensors. 19(9). 2076–2076. 211 indexed citations
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Fu, Bo, Jin Li, Zhang Cao, & D. Popa. (2019). Bound states of solitons in a harmonic graphene-mode-locked fiber laser. Photonics Research. 7(2). 116–116. 42 indexed citations
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Popa, D., et al.. (2019). Smart CMOS mid-infrared sensor array. Optics Letters. 44(17). 4111–4111. 14 indexed citations
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Hopper, Richard, et al.. (2018). A CMOS-Based Thermopile Array Fabricated on a Single SiO2 Membrane. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 878–878. 10 indexed citations
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Fu, Bo, D. Popa, Zhuang Zhao, et al.. (2018). Wavelength tunable soliton rains in a nanotube-mode locked Tm-doped fiber laser. Applied Physics Letters. 113(19). 29 indexed citations
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Popa, D., Zhe Jiang, Giorgio E. Bonacchini, et al.. (2017). A stable, power scaling, graphene-mode-locked all-fiber oscillator. Applied Physics Letters. 110(24). 8 indexed citations
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Popa, D., et al.. (2016). Surface modification of zirconia after laser irradiation. Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Rapid Communications. 10. 785–788. 6 indexed citations
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Popa, D., Valentin J. Wittwer, Silvia Milana, et al.. (2015). All-fiber nonlinearity- and dispersion-managed dissipative soliton nanotube mode-locked laser. Applied Physics Letters. 107(24). 15 indexed citations
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Popa, D., et al.. (2015). Study on the impact of culture substratum and fertilization system upon the productive potential of some tomato hybrids cultivated in industrial greenhouses.. Journal of horticulture, forestry and biotechnology. 19(1). 52–58. 1 indexed citations
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Popa, D., et al.. (2013). Study on the productive and qualitative potential of some watermelon hybrids under the impact of biostimulating treatments.. Journal of horticulture, forestry and biotechnology. 17(1). 81–87. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, G., Stephen J. Beecher, Felice Torrisi, et al.. (2013). 1.5 GHz picosecond pulse generation from a monolithic waveguide laser with a graphene-film saturable output coupler.. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 101 indexed citations
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Wang, Fengqiu, Zhe Jiang, Z. Sun, et al.. (2012). Dual-wavelength, carbon nanotube mode-locked fiber laser. 505–506. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Fengqiu, Zhe Jiang, Tawfique Hasan, et al.. (2012). Double-wall carbon nanotube Q-switched and mode-locked two-micron fiber lasers. CF1N.4–CF1N.4. 7 indexed citations
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Castellani, Carlos E. S., E. J. R. Kelleher, John C. Travers, et al.. (2011). Ultrafast Raman laser mode-locked by nanotubes. Optics Letters. 36(20). 3996–3996. 57 indexed citations
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