Franco Prati

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
128 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Franco Prati is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Franco Prati has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 78 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 67 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Franco Prati's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (87 papers), Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (67 papers) and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (47 papers). Franco Prati is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (87 papers), Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (67 papers) and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (47 papers). Franco Prati collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and Spain. Franco Prati's co-authors include Massimo Brambilla, L. A. Lugiato, L. A. Lugiato, M. San Miguel, N. B. Abraham, J. Martín-Regalado, G. Tissoni, M. Brambilla, C. O. Weiß and Lorenzo Spinelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Franco Prati

124 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Polarization properties of vertical-cavity surface-emitti... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 100 200 300 400
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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. Polarization properties of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
    1997 435 citations Franco Prati et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Franco Prati Italy 26 2.3k 1.8k 1.2k 668 181 128 3.0k
M. Brambilla Italy 19 1.5k 0.7× 755 0.4× 1.1k 0.9× 655 1.0× 83 0.5× 43 1.9k
Massimo Brambilla Italy 23 1.2k 0.5× 957 0.5× 596 0.5× 345 0.5× 85 0.5× 91 1.6k
H.‐J. Wünsche Germany 24 1.0k 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 454 0.4× 376 0.6× 128 0.7× 88 1.9k
T. Ackemann Germany 27 1.9k 0.8× 1.2k 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 625 0.9× 202 1.1× 171 2.6k
W. J. Firth United Kingdom 29 2.1k 0.9× 620 0.4× 1.3k 1.1× 1.4k 2.0× 76 0.4× 88 2.7k
A. G. Vladimirov Germany 29 2.0k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 878 1.3× 37 0.2× 136 2.6k
Wolfgang Elsäßer Germany 26 1.4k 0.6× 2.2k 1.2× 1.2k 1.0× 604 0.9× 352 1.9× 133 3.1k
Marc Haelterman Belgium 36 3.3k 1.5× 2.3k 1.3× 745 0.6× 1.9k 2.8× 728 4.0× 159 4.3k
W. J. Firth United Kingdom 23 1.8k 0.8× 790 0.4× 999 0.8× 1.0k 1.5× 48 0.3× 74 2.2k
Philippe Jacquod Switzerland 27 1.9k 0.8× 496 0.3× 259 0.2× 1.1k 1.6× 265 1.5× 89 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Franco Prati

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Franco Prati

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All Works

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Kazakov, Dmitry, Lorenzo Columbo, Massimo Brambilla, et al.. (2025). Hybridized Soliton Lasing in Coupled Semiconductor Lasers. Physical Review Letters. 134(2). 23802–23802. 2 indexed citations
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Brambilla, Massimo, et al.. (2025). Effective Rabi frequency in quantum cascade lasers and its role in the origin of harmonic frequency combs. IrInSubria (University of Insubria). 24–24. 1 indexed citations
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Kazakov, Dmitry, Marco Piccardo, Lorenzo Columbo, et al.. (2025). Driven bright solitons on a mid-infrared laser chip. Nature. 641(8061). 83–89. 5 indexed citations
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Schwarz, Benedikt, Nikola Opačak, Dmitry Kazakov, et al.. (2024). Nozaki-Bekki optical solitons. 46–46.
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Prati, Franco, Auro M. Perego, Javier Redondo, & Germán J. de Valcárcel. (2023). The master equation for passive modelocking. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 287. 8013–8013. 2 indexed citations
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Bassi, Andrea Li, Franco Prati, & L. A. Lugiato. (2021). Optical instabilities in Fabry-Perot resonators. Physical review. A. 103(5). 4 indexed citations
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Columbo, Lorenzo, Marco Piccardo, Franco Prati, et al.. (2021). Unifying Frequency Combs in Active and Passive Cavities: Temporal Solitons in Externally Driven Ring Lasers. Physical Review Letters. 126(17). 173903–173903. 39 indexed citations
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Gatti, A., Franco Prati, L. A. Lugiato, et al.. (2020). Unifying frequency combs in active and passive cavities: CW driving of temporal solitons in ring lasers. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Rimoldi, Cristina, et al.. (2020). Interaction of cavity solitons on an unstable background. Physical review. E. 101(4). 42210–42210. 3 indexed citations
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Perego, Auro M., Bruno Garbin, François Gustave, et al.. (2020). Coherent master equation for laser modelocking. Nature Communications. 11(1). 311–311. 28 indexed citations
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Rimoldi, Cristina, et al.. (2018). Exponentially decaying interaction potential of cavity solitons. Physical review. E. 97(3). 32208–32208. 10 indexed citations
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Gustave, François, Lorenzo Columbo, G. Tissoni, et al.. (2016). Phase solitons and domain dynamics in an optically injected semiconductor laser. Physical review. A. 93(6). 11 indexed citations
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Gustave, François, Lorenzo Columbo, Franco Prati, et al.. (2015). Extreme events and phase dynamics in forced oscillatory media.
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Rizza, Carlo, Alessandro Ciattoni, Lorenzo Columbo, Massimo Brambilla, & Franco Prati. (2013). Terahertz optically tunable dielectric metamaterials without microfabrication. Optics Letters. 38(8). 1307–1307. 14 indexed citations
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Columbo, Lorenzo, Carlo Rizza, Massimo Brambilla, Franco Prati, & G. Tissoni. (2012). Controlling cavity solitons by means of photorefractive soliton electro-activation. Optics Letters. 37(22). 4696–4696. 5 indexed citations
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Vahed, Hamid, Reza Kheradmand, H. Tajalli, et al.. (2011). Phase-mediated long-range interactions of cavity solitons in a semiconductor laser with a saturable absorber. Physical Review A. 84(6). 13 indexed citations
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Valcárcel, Germán J. de, Eugenio Roldán, & Franco Prati. (2006). Semiclassical theory of amplification and lasing. Revista Mexicana de Física E. 52(2). 198–214. 5 indexed citations
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Valcárcel, Germán J. de, Eugenio Roldán, & Franco Prati. (2003). Modal expansions in lasers outside the uniform-field limit. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 20(5). 825–825. 6 indexed citations
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Prati, Franco, Giovanni Giacomelli, & F. Marín. (2000). Competition between orthogonally polarized transverse modes in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and its influence on intensity noise. Physical Review A. 62(3). 13 indexed citations
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Brambilla, Massimo, Marco Cattaneo, L. A. Lugiato, & Franco Prati. (1990). Transverse laser patterns and phase singularity crystals. 115. 133–144. 1 indexed citations

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