Emil Wolf

50.7k total citations · 8 hit papers
277 papers, 31.2k citations indexed

About

Emil Wolf is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Emil Wolf has authored 277 papers receiving a total of 31.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 202 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 111 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 58 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Emil Wolf's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (125 papers), Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (65 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (42 papers). Emil Wolf is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (125 papers), Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (65 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (42 papers). Emil Wolf collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Japan. Emil Wolf's co-authors include L. Mandeļ, Max Born, Max Born, Eugene Hecht, Pierre Meystre, Olga Korotkova, Greg Gbur, Yajun Li, Tomohiro Shirai and Daniel F. V. James and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Emil Wolf

270 papers receiving 29.1k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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.

Principles of Optics

1999 8.3k citations Emil Wolf et al. profile →
Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics

1995 5.6k citations L. Mandeļ, Emil Wolf profile →
Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light

2000 2.9k citations Emil Wolf et al. profile →
Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics

1996 1.8k citations L. Mandeļ, Emil Wolf et al. profile →
Three-dimensional structure determination of semi-transparent objects from holographic data

1969 907 citations Emil Wolf profile →
Unified theory of coherence and polarization of random electromagnetic beams

2003 668 citations Emil Wolf profile →
Introduction to the theory of coherence and polarization of light

2007 593 citations Emil Wolf CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →
Generalization of the Maggi-Rubinowicz Theory of the Boundary Diffraction Wave—Part I†

1962 176 citations Emil Wolf et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
Emil Wolf	21.0k	10.9k	8.5k	3.8k	2.5k	277	31.2k
Miles J. Padgett	33.2k 1.6×	18.1k 1.7×	8.4k 1.0×	5.6k 1.5×	5.8k 2.3×	529	41.8k
Kishan Dholakia	19.9k 0.9×	15.5k 1.4×	5.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	468	27.6k
Demetri Psaltis	8.5k 0.4×	5.8k 0.5×	9.4k 1.1×	2.7k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	575	19.6k
Steven G. Johnson	23.4k 1.1×	8.0k 0.7×	18.2k 2.1×	1.3k 0.4×	506 0.2×	315	34.2k
J. P. Woerdman	15.5k 0.7×	6.2k 0.6×	5.1k 0.6×	2.0k 0.5×	372 0.1×	281	17.6k
Joseph W. Goodman	7.9k 0.4×	4.7k 0.4×	7.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	221	19.8k
Yangjian Cai	14.7k 0.7×	6.9k 0.6×	5.2k 0.6×	527 0.1×	1.6k 0.7×	663	16.0k
Marin Soljačić	24.5k 1.2×	11.1k 1.0×	19.9k 2.4×	4.3k 1.1×	730 0.3×	405	42.7k
Michael Berry	20.8k 1.0×	4.1k 0.4×	2.8k 0.3×	3.1k 0.8×	441 0.2×	333	31.9k
Stephen M. Barnett	19.9k 0.9×	4.7k 0.4×	3.6k 0.4×	10.2k 2.7×	745 0.3×	489	26.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Emil Wolf

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Emil Wolf's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Emil Wolf with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Emil Wolf more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Emil Wolf

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Emil Wolf. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Emil Wolf. The network helps show where Emil Wolf may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emil Wolf

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Visser, Taco D., et al.. (2016). Creating von Laue patterns in crystal scattering with partially coherent sources. Physical review. A. 94(3). 4 indexed citations

Lahiri, Mayukh & Emil Wolf. (2012). Spectral changes of stochastic beams scattered on a deterministic medium. Optics Letters. 37(13). 2517–2517. 26 indexed citations

Lahiri, Mayukh & Emil Wolf. (2009). Cross-spectral density matrices of polarized light beams. Optics Letters. 34(5). 557–557. 9 indexed citations

Wolf, Emil. (2007). Introduction to the theory of coherence and polarization of light. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 200. 593 indexed citations breakdown →

Kim, Kisik & Emil Wolf. (2006). Polarization of completely coherent random electromagnetic beams. Optics Letters. 31(2). 146–146. 1 indexed citations

Ellis, Jeremy, Aristide Dogariu, Sergey A. Ponomarenko, & Emil Wolf. (2004). Correlation matrix of a completely polarized, statistically stationary electromagnetic field. Optics Letters. 29(13). 1536–1536. 32 indexed citations

Shirai, Tomohiro & Emil Wolf. (2004). Coherence and polarization of electromagnetic beams modulated by random phase screens and their changes on propagation in free space. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 21(10). 1907–1907. 66 indexed citations

Shirai, Tomohiro, Aristide Dogariu, & Emil Wolf. (2003). Directionality of Gaussian Schell-model beams propagating in atmospheric turbulence. Optics Letters. 28(8). 610–610. 105 indexed citations

Schouten, Hugo F., Taco D. Visser, & Emil Wolf. (2003). New effects in Young’s interference experiment with partially coherent light. Optics Letters. 28(14). 1182–1182. 10 indexed citations

10.

Ponomarenko, Sergey A. & Emil Wolf. (2001). Universal structure of field correlations within a fluctuating medium. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 65(1). 16602–16602. 11 indexed citations

11.

Shirai, Tomohiro, Emil Wolf, Hong Chen, & Weijian Wang. (1998). Coherence filters and their uses II. One-dimensional realizations. Journal of Modern Optics. 45(4). 799–816. 27 indexed citations

12.

Wolf, Emil, et al.. (1992). Energy Conservation with Partially Coherent Sources Which Induce Spectral Changes in Emitted Radiation. Journal of Modern Optics. 39(5). 927–940. 16 indexed citations

13.

Mandeļ, L. & Emil Wolf. (1990). Selected papers on coherence and fluctuations of light, 1850-1966. 12 indexed citations

14.

Wolf, Emil & Daniel F. V. James. (1990). Spectral changes produced in Young’s interference experiment. Optical Society of America Annual Meeting. TuI6–TuI6. 2 indexed citations

15.

Carter, William H. & Emil Wolf. (1987). Nonlinear phenomena in guided-wave optics (A). 4. 90. 3 indexed citations

16.

Wolf, Emil, et al.. (1987). Spectra of light produced by sources with different coherence properties. Annual Meeting Optical Society of America. TUI2–TUI2. 1 indexed citations

17.

Foley, John T., Kisik Kim, & Emil Wolf. (1986). Field correlations within homogeneous, isotropic, primary steady-state sources. Annual Meeting Optical Society of America. THH6–THH6. 1 indexed citations

18.

Wolf, Emil. (1980). New theory of partial coherence in the space-frequency domain (A). Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 70. 1622. 2 indexed citations

19.

Collett, Edward & Emil Wolf. (1977). Representation of image fields based on partial wave analysis (A). Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 67. 1437.

20.

Wolf, Emil, et al.. (1975). Coherence functions of fields generated by correlated charge-current distributions (A). Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 65. 1198. 2 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact