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

Principles of Optics 1962 2026 1983 2004 1999 1995 2000 1996 1969 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k

Peers

Emil Wolf
Comparison fields: 5 of 173
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 21.0k
  • Biomedical Engineering 10.9k
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 8.5k
  • Artificial Intelligence 3.8k
  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics 2.5k
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Fields of papers citing papers by Emil Wolf

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emil Wolf

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1 4
2 26
3 95
4 20
5
Introduction to the theory of coherence and polarization of light breakdown →
593
6 52
7 124
8 39
9 26
10 10
11 105
12 37
13 27
14 3
15
Selected papers on coherence and fluctuations of light, 1850-1966
12
16
Nonlinear phenomena in guided-wave optics (A)
3
17 1
18
New theory of partial coherence in the space-frequency domain (A)
2
19
Representation of image fields based on partial wave analysis (A)
0
20
Coherence functions of fields generated by correlated charge-current distributions (A)
2

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