Ebrahim Karimi

12.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
187 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Ebrahim Karimi is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ebrahim Karimi has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 66 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 55 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ebrahim Karimi's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (116 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (60 papers) and Near-Field Optical Microscopy (26 papers). Ebrahim Karimi is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (116 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (60 papers) and Near-Field Optical Microscopy (26 papers). Ebrahim Karimi collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Italy and United States. Ebrahim Karimi's co-authors include Robert W. Boyd, Lorenzo Marrucci, Enrico Santamato, Bruno Piccirillo, Frédéric Bouchard, Fabio Sciarrino, Sergei Slussarenko, Hammam Qassim, Vincenzo Grillo and Israel De Leon and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ebrahim Karimi

171 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

Generating optical orbital angular momentum at visible wavelengths using a plasmonic metasurface

2014 649 citations Ebrahim Karimi, Robert W. Boyd et al. profile →
High-dimensional intracity quantum cryptography with structured photons

2017 366 citations Alicia Sit, Frédéric Bouchard et al. profile →
4 × 20 Gbit/s mode division multiplexing over free space using vector modes and a q-plate mode (de)multiplexer

2015 345 citations Ebrahim Karimi, Lorenzo Marrucci et al. profile →
Observation of optical polarization Möbius strips

2015 334 citations Ebrahim Karimi, Lorenzo Marrucci et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ebrahim Karimi Canada	47	6.6k	2.6k	1.9k	1.6k	1.5k	187	7.9k
Konstantin Y. Bliokh Japan	50	11.1k 1.7×	4.5k 1.7×	1.9k 1.0×	2.7k 1.6×	2.2k 1.5×	126	12.5k
Martin P. J. Lavery United Kingdom	35	7.9k 1.2×	3.6k 1.4×	948 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	3.6k 2.5×	124	8.9k
Marco W. Beijersbergen Netherlands	18	10.7k 1.6×	5.1k 1.9×	1.2k 0.6×	2.1k 1.3×	2.5k 1.7×	85	11.7k
R. J. C. Spreeuw Netherlands	26	9.5k 1.4×	3.3k 1.3×	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	74	10.1k
Mark R. Dennis United Kingdom	39	5.5k 0.8×	2.7k 1.0×	475 0.2×	1.0k 0.6×	958 0.7×	117	6.6k
Lorenzo Marrucci Italy	52	9.3k 1.4×	3.7k 1.4×	2.3k 1.2×	3.2k 2.0×	2.2k 1.5×	195	11.1k
Johannes Courtial United Kingdom	36	8.2k 1.2×	4.1k 1.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	2.0k 1.4×	126	9.0k
Gerd Leuchs Germany	67	14.3k 2.2×	3.9k 1.5×	6.9k 3.6×	1.3k 0.8×	4.4k 3.0×	480	16.6k
Ady Arie Israel	46	7.1k 1.1×	1.8k 0.7×	449 0.2×	873 0.5×	3.8k 2.6×	286	8.2k
Bahaa E. A. Saleh United States	51	7.6k 1.2×	2.3k 0.9×	3.9k 2.0×	535 0.3×	3.9k 2.7×	333	11.8k

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Heshami, Khabat, et al.. (2026). Investigating the performance of adaptive optics on different bases of spatial modes in turbulent channels. Optics Express. 34(3). 3732–3732.

Hufnagel, Felix, et al.. (2025). Fast adaptive optics for high-dimensional quantum communications in turbulent channels. Communications Physics. 8(1). 8 indexed citations

Gu, Xuemei, et al.. (2025). Tutorial: Hong–Ou–Mandel interference with structured photons. Nanophotonics. 14(23). 4163–4175.

Liu, Shi-Long, Yingwen Zhang, Stéphane Virally, et al.. (2025). Experimental Emulator of Pulse Dynamics in Fractional Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(8). 7 indexed citations

Bouchard, Frédéric, et al.. (2025). High-dimensional quantum key distribution with Qubit-like states. Communications Physics. 8(1).

Tavabi, Amir H., Giovanni Bertoni, Enzo Rotunno, et al.. (2025). Demonstration of angular-momentum-resolved electron energy-loss spectroscopy. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6601–6601. 1 indexed citations

Efremov, Maxim A., Felix Hufnagel, Hugo Larocque, Wolfgang P. Schleich, & Ebrahim Karimi. (2025). Optimal Diffractive Focusing of Matter and Light Waves. Physical Review Letters. 135(11). 113604–113604.

Tavabi, Amir H., Raimond B. G. Ravelli, Abril Gijsbers, et al.. (2024). Symmetry and planar chirality measured with a log-polar transformation in a transmission electron microscope. Physical Review Applied. 22(1). 1 indexed citations

Karimi, Ebrahim, et al.. (2024). Deep quantum graph dreaming: deciphering neural network insights into quantum experiments. Machine Learning Science and Technology. 5(1). 15029–15029. 2 indexed citations

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Salari, Vahid, et al.. (2023). Quantum face recognition protocol with ghost imaging. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 2401–2401. 8 indexed citations

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D’Errico, Alessio, et al.. (2023). Interferometric imaging of amplitude and phase of spatial biphoton states. Nature Photonics. 17(11). 1009–1016. 40 indexed citations

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Snizhko, Kyrylo, et al.. (2023). Topological transitions of the generalized Pancharatnam-Berry phase. Science Advances. 9(47). eadg6810–eadg6810. 6 indexed citations

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D’Errico, Alessio, et al.. (2023). Superresolution Enhancement in Biphoton Spatial-Mode Demultiplexing. Physical Review Applied. 20(2). 4 indexed citations

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Pozzi, Giulio, et al.. (2021). A sorter for electrons based on magnetic elements. Ultramicroscopy. 231. 113287–113287. 2 indexed citations

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Tavabi, Amir H., Enzo Rotunno, Alberto Roncaglia, et al.. (2021). Experimental Demonstration of an Electrostatic Orbital Angular Momentum Sorter for Electron Beams. Physical Review Letters. 126(9). 94802–94802. 41 indexed citations

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Bouchard, Frédéric, Alicia Sit, Yingwen Zhang, et al.. (2020). Two-photon interference: the Hong–Ou–Mandel effect. Reports on Progress in Physics. 84(1). 12402–12402. 121 indexed citations

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Bouchard, Frédéric, Felix Hufnagel, Alicia Sit, et al.. (2018). Full characterization of a high-dimensional quantum communication channel. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Grillo, Vincenzo, Tyler R. Harvey, Federico Venturi, et al.. (2017). Observation of nanoscale magnetic fields using twisted electron beams. Nature Communications. 8(1). 689–689. 47 indexed citations

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Cardano, Filippo, Ebrahim Karimi, Sergei Slussarenko, et al.. (2012). Polarization pattern of vector vortex beams generated by q-plates with different topological charges. Applied Optics. 51(10). C1–C1. 311 indexed citations

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Nagali, Eleonora, Fabio Sciarrino, F. De Martini, et al.. (2008). Quantum interference by coherence transfer from spin to orbital angular momentum of photons. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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