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

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits

2017 2.1k citations Nicholas C. Harris, Mihika Prabhu et al. profile →
Solid-state single-photon emitters

2016 1.2k citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
Chip-integrated ultrafast graphene photodetector with high responsivity

2013 928 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
Programmable photonic circuits

2020 826 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
Controlling the Spontaneous Emission Rate of Single Quantum Dots in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal

2005 694 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics

2020 612 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
Material platforms for spin-based photonic quantum technologies

2018 497 citations Mete Atatüre, Dirk Englund et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
Reliable Exfoliation of Large-Area High-Quality Flakes of Graphene and Other Two-Dimensional Materials

2015 483 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
Controlling cavity reflectivity with a single quantum dot

2007 459 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
Coherent generation of non-classical light on a chip via photon-induced tunnelling and blockade

2008 457 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
Robust Multicolor Single Photon Emission from Point Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

2016 427 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
Ultrafast photonic crystal nanocavity laser

2006 424 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
A MoTe₂-based light-emitting diode and photodetector for silicon photonic integrated circuits.

2017 374 citations Mikkel Heuck, Dmitri K. Efetov et al. profile →
Quantum transport simulations in a programmable nanophotonic processor

2017 327 citations Nicholas C. Harris, Mihika Prabhu et al. profile →
The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies

2021 317 citations Dirk Englund et al. profile →
Single-chip photonic deep neural network with forward-only training

2024 60 citations Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Alexander Sludds et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A Bayesian approach towards atomically-precise localization in fluorescence microscopy 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Yuqin Duan, Qing Gu, (unknown), Yong Hu, Kevin C. Chen, Matthew E. Trusheim, Dirk Englund	0
2	Hypermultiplexed integrated photonics–based optical tensor processor 2025 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Chunho Lee, Alexander Sludds, Ryan Hamerly, Ke Zhang, Hanke Feng, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Cheng Wang, Dirk Englund, Mengjie Yu, Zaijun Chen	4
3	A spin-refrigerated cavity quantum electrodynamic sensor 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Hanfeng Wang, Kunal L. Tiwari, Kurt Jacobs, Michael W. Judy, Xin Zhang, Dirk Englund, Matthew E. Trusheim	5
4	Quantum network utility: A framework for benchmarking quantum networks 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Wenhan Dai, Don Towsley, Dirk Englund	7
5	Photonic Crystal Cavity IQ Modulators in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate 2024 ·ACS Photonics ·Hugo Larocque, (unknown), Alexander Sludds, Hamed Sattari, Ian Christen, (unknown), Iván Prieto, (unknown), (unknown), Sanjaya Lohani, Brian T. Kirby, Öney O. Soykal, (unknown), Amir H. Ghadimi, Dirk Englund, Mikkel Heuck	4
6	Netcast: Low-Power Edge Computing With WDM-Defined Optical Neural Networks 2024 ·Journal of Lightwave Technology ·Ryan Hamerly, Alexander Sludds, Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Zaijun Chen, Zhizhen Zhong, Liane Bernstein, Dirk Englund	2
7	34.1 THz Cryo-CMOS Backscatter Transceiver: A Contactless 4 Kelvin-300 Kelvin Data Interface 2023 ·Jinchen Wang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xiang Yi, Dirk Englund, Ruonan Han	10
8	Resource-efficient simulation of noisy quantum circuits and application to network-enabled QRAM optimization 2023 ·npj Quantum Information ·(unknown), Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro, Kevin C. Chen, Wenhan Dai, Dirk Englund, Yasser Omar	3
9	Demo: First Demonstration of Real-Time Photonic-Electronic DNN Acceleration on SmartNICs 2023 ·Zhizhen Zhong, (unknown), (unknown), Dirk Englund, Manya Ghobadi	0
10	Hyperfine Spectroscopy of Isotopically Engineered Group-IV Color Centers in Diamond 2023 ·PRX Quantum ·(unknown), (unknown), Kevin C. Chen, Ryan A. Parker, Michael Titze, Jesús Arjona Martínez, Madison Sutula, Ian Christen, (unknown), William Roth, Carola M. Purser, Martin Hayhurst Appel, (unknown), Matthew E. Trusheim, (unknown), Matthew Markham, Edward S. Bielejec, Mete Atatüre, Dirk Englund	13
11	Zero-Added-Loss Entangled-Photon Multiplexing for Ground- and Space-Based Quantum Networks 2023 ·Physical Review Applied ·Kevin C. Chen, (unknown), Mikkel Heuck, (unknown), Wenhan Dai, Saikat Guha, Dirk Englund	15
12	Programmable photonic integrated meshes for modular generation of optical entanglement links 2023 ·npj Quantum Information ·Mark Dong, (unknown), David Heim, Hyeongrak Choi, Genevieve Clark, Andrew Leenheer, Kevin J. Palm, (unknown), Daniel Domı́nguez, Gerald Gilbert, Matt Eichenfield, Dirk Englund	12
13	A self‐similar sine–cosine fractal architecture for multiport interferometers 2023 ·Nanophotonics ·(unknown), (unknown), Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Dirk Englund, Ryan Hamerly	6
14	Accurate Self-Configuration of Rectangular Multiport Interferometers 2022 ·Physical Review Applied ·Ryan Hamerly, Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Dirk Englund	26
15	All-Photonic Artificial Neural Network Processor Via Nonlinear Optics 2022 ·Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·(unknown), Stefan Krastanov, Mikkel Heuck, Dirk Englund	5
16	Ultra-low loss quantum photonic circuits integrated with single quantum emitters 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Ashish Chanana, Hugo Larocque, Renan Moreira, Jacques Carolan, (unknown), (unknown), Vikas Anant, Jin Dong Song, Dirk Englund, Daniel J. Blumenthal, Kartik Srinivasan, Marcelo Davanço	68
17	Trace-free counterfactual communication with a nanophotonic processor 2019 ·npj Quantum Information ·Irati Alonso Calafell, (unknown), David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur, Lee A. Rozema, (unknown), (unknown), Nicholas C. Harris, Mihika Prabhu, Jacques Carolan, Michael Hochberg, Tom Baehr‐Jones, Dirk Englund, C. H. W. Barnes, Philip Walther	13
18	Probing the ultimate plasmon confinement limits with a van der Waals heterostructure 2018 ·Science ·David Alcaraz Iranzo, Sébastien Nanot, Eduardo J. C. Dias, Itai Epstein, Cheng Peng, Dmitri K. Efetov, Mark B. Lundeberg, Romain Parret, Johann Osmond, Jin‐Yong Hong, Jing Kong, Dirk Englund, N. M. R. Peres, Frank H. L. Koppens	248
19	Material platforms for spin-based photonic quantum technologies breakdown → 2018 ·Nature Reviews Materials ·Mete Atatüre, Dirk Englund, A. Nick Vamivakas, Sang‐Yun Lee, Jörg Wrachtrup	497
20	Wide-Bandgap Integrated Photonic Circuits for Nonlinear Interactions and Interfacing with Quantum Memories 2018 ·Michael L. Fanto, Tsung‐Ju Lu, Hyeongrak Choi, Paul M. Thomas, (unknown), Christopher C. Tison, Jeffrey A. Steidle, Stefan F. Preble, Mohammad Soltani, Dirk Englund, Paul M. Alsing, (unknown)	1

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