Etienne Cuche

8.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
76 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Etienne Cuche is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Media Technology and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Etienne Cuche has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 45 papers in Media Technology and 30 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Etienne Cuche's work include Digital Holography and Microscopy (72 papers), Optical measurement and interference techniques (30 papers) and Image Processing Techniques and Applications (26 papers). Etienne Cuche is often cited by papers focused on Digital Holography and Microscopy (72 papers), Optical measurement and interference techniques (30 papers) and Image Processing Techniques and Applications (26 papers). Etienne Cuche collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Poland. Etienne Cuche's co-authors include Pierre Marquet, Christian Depeursinge, Tristan Colomb, Yves Emery, Frédéric Bevilacqua, Frédéric Montfort, Florian Charrière, Pierre J. Magistretti, Benjamin Rappaz and Jonas Kühn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Photonics, Optics Letters and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Etienne Cuche

65 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

Digital holographic microscopy: a noninvasive contrast im... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2005 1999 1999 2000 2005 250 500 750
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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. Digital holographic microscopy: a noninvasive contrast imaging technique allowing quantitative visualization of living cells with subwavelength axial accuracy
    2005 918 citations Pierre Marquet, Benjamin Rappaz et al. Optics Letters profile →
  2. Digital holography for quantitative phase-contrast imaging
    1999 859 citations Etienne Cuche, Christian Depeursinge et al. Optics Letters profile →
  3. Simultaneous amplitude-contrast and quantitative phase-contrast microscopy by numerical reconstruction of Fresnel off-axis holograms
    1999 786 citations Etienne Cuche, Pierre Marquet et al. Applied Optics profile →
  4. Spatial filtering for zero-order and twin-image elimination in digital off-axis holography
    2000 715 citations Etienne Cuche, Pierre Marquet et al. Applied Optics profile →
  5. Measurement of the integral refractive index and dynamic cell morphometry of living cells with digital holographic microscopy
    2005 486 citations Benjamin Rappaz, Pierre Marquet et al. Optics Express profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Etienne Cuche Switzerland 24 5.8k 3.2k 2.7k 1.9k 1.4k 76 6.3k
Pierre Marquet Switzerland 39 7.0k 1.2× 3.5k 1.1× 2.9k 1.1× 3.0k 1.6× 2.3k 1.7× 132 8.5k
Tristan Colomb Switzerland 24 3.8k 0.6× 2.0k 0.6× 1.7k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 957 0.7× 73 4.1k
Christian Depeursinge Switzerland 40 7.7k 1.3× 3.6k 1.1× 3.3k 1.2× 3.6k 1.9× 2.5k 1.8× 193 9.5k
Joseph Rosen Israel 37 3.9k 0.7× 2.8k 0.9× 2.0k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 587 0.4× 229 5.1k
Andrea Fińizio Italy 36 3.6k 0.6× 2.3k 0.7× 1.9k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 445 0.3× 153 4.5k
Baoli Yao China 36 3.2k 0.6× 781 0.2× 954 0.4× 1.9k 1.0× 694 0.5× 272 4.6k
Natan T. Shaked Israel 32 2.3k 0.4× 1.0k 0.3× 1.2k 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 734 0.5× 136 3.4k
Guoan Zheng United States 45 4.6k 0.8× 1.3k 0.4× 1.6k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 146 7.4k
Sergio De Nicola Italy 33 3.1k 0.5× 1.7k 0.5× 1.5k 0.6× 943 0.5× 305 0.2× 243 4.4k
Vicente Micó Spain 29 1.9k 0.3× 921 0.3× 1.1k 0.4× 905 0.5× 498 0.4× 145 2.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Montfort, Frédéric, et al.. (2013). Full field vertical scanning in short coherence digital holographic microscope. Optics Express. 21(10). 12643–12643. 9 indexed citations
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Aspert, Nicolas, et al.. (2013). High speed 3D surface inspection with digital holography. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8759. 87593Q–87593Q. 3 indexed citations
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Colomb, Tristan, Herbert Hutter, Nicolas Pavillon, et al.. (2010). Digital holographic reflectometry. Optics Express. 18(4). 3719–3719. 34 indexed citations
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Colomb, Tristan, Nicolas Pavillon, Jonas Kühn, et al.. (2010). Extended depth-of-focus by digital holographic microscopy. Optics Letters. 35(11). 1840–1840. 76 indexed citations
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Kühn, Jonas, Tristan Colomb, Frédéric Montfort, et al.. (2007). Real-time dual-wavelength digital holographic microscopy for MEMS characterization. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6716. 671608–671608. 6 indexed citations
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Kühn, Jonas, Florian Charrière, Tristan Colomb, et al.. (2007). Digital holographic microscopy for nanometric quality control of micro-optical components. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6475. 64750V–64750V. 4 indexed citations
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Emery, Yves, Etienne Cuche, Nicolas Aspert, et al.. (2006). Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) for metrology and dynamic characterization of MEMS and MOEMS. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6186. 61860N–61860N. 13 indexed citations
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Charrière, Florian, Jonas Kühn, Tristan Colomb, et al.. (2006). Characterization of microlenses by digital holographic microscopy. Applied Optics. 45(5). 829–829. 160 indexed citations
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Colomb, Tristan, Etienne Cuche, Florian Charrière, et al.. (2006). Automatic procedure for aberration compensation in digital holographic microscopy and applications to specimen shape compensation. Applied Optics. 45(5). 851–851. 298 indexed citations
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Charrière, Florian, Anca Marian, Frédéric Montfort, et al.. (2006). Cell refractive index tomography by digital holographic microscopy. Optics Letters. 31(2). 178–178. 410 indexed citations
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Charrière, Florian, Tristan Colomb, Frédéric Montfort, et al.. (2006). Shot-noise influence on the reconstructed phase image signal-to-noise ratio in digital holographic microscopy. Applied Optics. 45(29). 7667–7667. 60 indexed citations
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Montfort, Frédéric, Florian Charrière, Tristan Colomb, et al.. (2006). Purely numerical compensation for microscope objective phase curvature in digital holographic microscopy: influence of digital phase mask position. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 23(11). 2944–2944. 55 indexed citations
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Montfort, Frédéric, Tristan Colomb, Florian Charrière, et al.. (2006). Submicrometer optical tomography by multiple-wavelength digital holographic microscopy. Applied Optics. 45(32). 8209–8209. 61 indexed citations
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Depeursinge, Christian, Frédéric Montfort, Tristan Colomb, et al.. (2006). Digital holographic microscopy, a new imaging technology applied to biological cells and tissues. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 626–626.
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Colomb, Tristan, Etienne Cuche, Pierre Marquet, et al.. (2005). Polarization microscopy by use of digital holography: application to optical-fiber birefringence measurements. Applied Optics. 44(21). 4461–4461. 109 indexed citations
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Marquet, Pierre, Benjamin Rappaz, Pierre J. Magistretti, et al.. (2005). Digital holographic microscopy: a noninvasive contrast imaging technique allowing quantitative visualization of living cells with subwavelength axial accuracy. Optics Letters. 30(5). 468–468. 918 indexed citations breakdown →
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Charrière, Florian, et al.. (2005). Time-domain optical coherence tomography with digital holographic microscopy. Applied Optics. 44(10). 1806–1806. 68 indexed citations
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Depeursinge, Christian, Florian Charrière, Frédéric Montfort, et al.. (2004). Digital holographic microscopy applied to metrology. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5457. 504–504. 1 indexed citations
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Depeursinge, Christian, Etienne Cuche, Tristan Colomb, et al.. (2003). Cells and tissue imaging with digital holographic microscopy. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5143. 134–134. 3 indexed citations
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Cuche, Etienne, et al.. (1999). Simultaneous amplitude-contrast and quantitative phase-contrast microscopy by numerical reconstruction of Fresnel off-axis holograms. Applied Optics. 38(34). 6994–6994. 786 indexed citations breakdown →

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