Dirk Englund

34.3k total citations · 16 hit papers
398 papers, 21.9k citations indexed

About

Dirk Englund is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Englund has authored 398 papers receiving a total of 21.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 229 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 224 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 158 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Dirk Englund's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (190 papers), Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (100 papers) and Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (82 papers). Dirk Englund is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (190 papers), Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (100 papers) and Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (82 papers). Dirk Englund collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Denmark. Dirk Englund's co-authors include Jelena Vučković, Igor Aharonovich, Milos Toth, Nicholas C. Harris, Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Marin Soljačić, Tom Baehr‐Jones, Pierre M. Petroff and Nick Stoltz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Englund

370 papers receiving 21.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits
    2017 2.1k citations Nicholas C. Harris, Mihika Prabhu et al. profile →
  2. Solid-state single-photon emitters
    2016 1.2k citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
  3. Chip-integrated ultrafast graphene photodetector with high responsivity
    2013 928 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
  4. Programmable photonic circuits
    2020 826 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
  5. Controlling the Spontaneous Emission Rate of Single Quantum Dots in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal
    2005 694 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
  6. Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics
    2020 612 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
  7. Material platforms for spin-based photonic quantum technologies
    2018 497 citations Mete Atatüre, Dirk Englund et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
  8. Reliable Exfoliation of Large-Area High-Quality Flakes of Graphene and Other Two-Dimensional Materials
    2015 483 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
  9. Controlling cavity reflectivity with a single quantum dot
    2007 459 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
  10. Coherent generation of non-classical light on a chip via photon-induced tunnelling and blockade
    2008 457 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
  11. Robust Multicolor Single Photon Emission from Point Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
    2016 427 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
  12. Ultrafast photonic crystal nanocavity laser
    2006 424 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
  13. A MoTe2-based light-emitting diode and photodetector for silicon photonic integrated circuits.
    2017 374 citations Mikkel Heuck, Dmitri K. Efetov et al. profile →
  14. Quantum transport simulations in a programmable nanophotonic processor
    2017 327 citations Nicholas C. Harris, Mihika Prabhu et al. profile →
  15. The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies
    2021 317 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
  16. Single-chip photonic deep neural network with forward-only training
    2024 60 citations Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Alexander Sludds et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Dirk Englund 12.8k 10.9k 7.9k 6.6k 4.5k 398 21.9k
Jelena Vučković 11.9k 0.9× 14.5k 1.3× 5.0k 0.6× 3.3k 0.5× 4.4k 1.0× 357 18.8k
Marko Lončar 9.2k 0.7× 10.3k 0.9× 1.6k 0.2× 2.9k 0.4× 2.3k 0.5× 253 14.1k
Philip Hemmer 3.9k 0.3× 12.1k 1.1× 3.2k 0.4× 9.6k 1.5× 3.1k 0.7× 176 17.9k
Demetri Psaltis 9.4k 0.7× 8.5k 0.8× 2.7k 0.3× 1.6k 0.2× 5.8k 1.3× 575 19.6k
D. A. Ritchie 19.7k 1.5× 25.0k 2.3× 4.2k 0.5× 5.2k 0.8× 3.0k 0.7× 1.3k 33.9k
David A. B. Miller 21.4k 1.7× 18.9k 1.7× 3.3k 0.4× 4.7k 0.7× 4.3k 1.0× 549 29.9k
Sajeev John 11.8k 0.9× 16.8k 1.5× 1.1k 0.1× 2.8k 0.4× 5.6k 1.3× 216 20.5k
Wolfram H. P. Pernice 9.8k 0.8× 4.7k 0.4× 5.2k 0.7× 3.3k 0.5× 1.9k 0.4× 237 12.7k
Min Xiao 13.5k 1.1× 14.0k 1.3× 3.4k 0.4× 7.4k 1.1× 2.4k 0.5× 582 26.6k
D. Rugar 5.7k 0.5× 11.8k 1.1× 520 0.1× 2.8k 0.4× 4.2k 0.9× 138 13.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lee, Chunho, Alexander Sludds, Ryan Hamerly, et al.. (2025). Hypermultiplexed integrated photonics–based optical tensor processor. Science Advances. 11(23). eadu0228–eadu0228. 4 indexed citations
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Duan, Yuqin, Qing Gu, Yong Hu, et al.. (2025). A Bayesian approach towards atomically-precise localization in fluorescence microscopy. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9289–9289.
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Wang, Hanfeng, Kunal L. Tiwari, Kurt Jacobs, et al.. (2024). A spin-refrigerated cavity quantum electrodynamic sensor. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10320–10320. 5 indexed citations
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Dai, Wenhan, et al.. (2024). Quantum network utility: A framework for benchmarking quantum networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(17). e2314103121–e2314103121. 7 indexed citations
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Heim, David, Mark Dong, Gerald Gilbert, et al.. (2024). Strain-concentration for fast, compact photonic modulation and non-volatile memory. Optica. 11(11). 1511–1511. 1 indexed citations
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Hamerly, Ryan, Alexander Sludds, Saumil Bandyopadhyay, et al.. (2024). Netcast: Low-Power Edge Computing With WDM-Defined Optical Neural Networks. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 42(22). 7795–7806. 2 indexed citations
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Larocque, Hugo, Alexander Sludds, Hamed Sattari, et al.. (2024). Photonic Crystal Cavity IQ Modulators in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate. ACS Photonics. 11(9). 3860–3869. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Jinchen, et al.. (2023). 34.1 THz Cryo-CMOS Backscatter Transceiver: A Contactless 4 Kelvin-300 Kelvin Data Interface. 504–506. 10 indexed citations
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Menssen, Adrian J., Artur Hermans, Ian Christen, et al.. (2023). Scalable photonic integrated circuits for high-fidelity light control. Optica. 10(10). 1366–1366. 19 indexed citations
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Dong, Mark, David Heim, Hyeongrak Choi, et al.. (2023). Programmable photonic integrated meshes for modular generation of optical entanglement links. npj Quantum Information. 9(1). 12 indexed citations
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Cruzeiro, Emmanuel Zambrini, et al.. (2023). Resource-efficient simulation of noisy quantum circuits and application to network-enabled QRAM optimization. npj Quantum Information. 9(1). 3 indexed citations
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Chanana, Ashish, Hugo Larocque, Renan Moreira, et al.. (2022). Ultra-low loss quantum photonic circuits integrated with single quantum emitters. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7693–7693. 68 indexed citations
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Krastanov, Stefan, et al.. (2022). All-Photonic Artificial Neural Network Processor Via Nonlinear Optics. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. SF4F.5–SF4F.5. 5 indexed citations
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Hamerly, Ryan, Saumil Bandyopadhyay, & Dirk Englund. (2022). Asymptotically fault-tolerant programmable photonics. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6831–6831. 40 indexed citations
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Calafell, Irati Alonso, David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur, Lee A. Rozema, et al.. (2019). Trace-free counterfactual communication with a nanophotonic processor. npj Quantum Information. 5(1). 13 indexed citations
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Fanto, Michael L., Tsung‐Ju Lu, Hyeongrak Choi, et al.. (2018). Wide-Bandgap Integrated Photonic Circuits for Nonlinear Interactions and Interfacing with Quantum Memories. 257–258. 1 indexed citations
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Iranzo, David Alcaraz, Sébastien Nanot, Eduardo J. C. Dias, et al.. (2018). Probing the ultimate plasmon confinement limits with a van der Waals heterostructure. Science. 360(6386). 291–295. 248 indexed citations
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Marseglia, Luca, Koushik Saha, Ashok Ajoy, et al.. (2018). Bright nanowire single photon source based on SiV centers in diamond. Optics Express. 26(1). 80–80. 37 indexed citations
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Atatüre, Mete, Dirk Englund, A. Nick Vamivakas, Sang‐Yun Lee, & Jörg Wrachtrup. (2018). Material platforms for spin-based photonic quantum technologies. Nature Reviews Materials. 3(5). 38–51. 497 indexed citations breakdown →

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