François Léo

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

François Léo is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, François Léo has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 59 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 25 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in François Léo's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (73 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (49 papers) and Nonlinear Photonic Systems (22 papers). François Léo is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (73 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (49 papers) and Nonlinear Photonic Systems (22 papers). François Léo collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, New Zealand and France. François Léo's co-authors include Stéphane Coen, Philippe Emplit, Simon-Pierre Gorza, Marc Haelterman, Pascal Kockaert, Bart Kuyken, Miro Erkintalo, Günther Roelkens, Lendert Gelens and S. Wabnitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Nature Photonics.

In The Last Decade

François Léo

75 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Temporal cavity solitons in one-dimensional Kerr media as... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 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. Temporal cavity solitons in one-dimensional Kerr media as bits in an all-optical buffer
    2010 487 citations François Léo, Stéphane Coen 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
François Léo Belgium 22 1.9k 1.5k 418 235 66 84 2.0k
Stuart G. Murdoch New Zealand 30 2.3k 1.2× 2.1k 1.3× 417 1.0× 163 0.7× 62 0.9× 125 2.6k
Nikita M. Kondratiev Russia 13 1.9k 1.0× 1.7k 1.1× 233 0.6× 77 0.3× 40 0.6× 52 1.9k
Simon-Pierre Gorza Belgium 18 1.1k 0.6× 915 0.6× 299 0.7× 135 0.6× 121 1.8× 65 1.4k
Chengying Bao China 24 1.4k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 213 0.5× 41 0.2× 38 0.6× 57 1.5k
Myoung‐Gyun Suh United States 15 2.5k 1.3× 2.0k 1.3× 382 0.9× 42 0.2× 84 1.3× 39 2.6k
Valery E. Lobanov Russia 18 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 347 0.8× 37 0.2× 38 0.6× 91 1.6k
Victor Brasch Switzerland 19 4.4k 2.4× 4.2k 2.7× 531 1.3× 147 0.6× 90 1.4× 61 4.7k
Martin H. P. Pfeiffer Switzerland 21 3.8k 2.0× 3.6k 2.4× 356 0.9× 77 0.3× 131 2.0× 65 4.0k
Tobias Herr Switzerland 21 4.3k 2.3× 3.9k 2.6× 495 1.2× 142 0.6× 104 1.6× 82 4.6k
Boqiang Shen United States 18 1.6k 0.9× 1.6k 1.1× 87 0.2× 25 0.1× 61 0.9× 38 1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Léo

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All Works

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Parra‐Rivas, Pedro, et al.. (2025). Transdimensional dynamics of Kerr cavity solitons. Physical Review Research. 7(3).
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Haelterman, Marc, et al.. (2024). Implications of tristability on localization phenomena: A necking bifurcation’s tale. Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 186. 115201–115201. 1 indexed citations
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Haelterman, Marc, et al.. (2023). Emergence of collapsed snaking related dark and bright Kerr dissipative solitons with quartic-quadratic dispersion. Physical review. E. 108(1). 14203–14203. 4 indexed citations
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Goldman, Nathan, et al.. (2023). Bloch oscillations of coherently driven dissipative solitons in a synthetic dimension. Nature Physics. 19(7). 1014–1021. 34 indexed citations
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Parra‐Rivas, Pedro, et al.. (2023). Depletion-limited Kerr solitons in singly resonant optical parametric oscillators. Optics Letters. 48(7). 1950–1950. 3 indexed citations
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Parra‐Rivas, Pedro, et al.. (2023). Kerr Cavity Solitons in Active $\mathcal{PT}$-Symmetric Dimers. 1–1.
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Billet, Maximilien, Tom Vandekerckhove, Fabrice Raineri, et al.. (2023). Large size gallium phosphide micro-transfer printing for integrated nonlinear photonics. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. FTh3E.6–FTh3E.6. 2 indexed citations
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Léo, François, et al.. (2023). Cavity Solitons Formation Above the Fundamental Limit Imposed by the Raman Self-frequency Shift. SW3G.3–SW3G.3. 1 indexed citations
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Gorza, Simon-Pierre, et al.. (2023). High peak-to-background-ratio solitons in a coherently driven active fiber cavity. APL Photonics. 8(12). 2 indexed citations
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Billet, M. L., Yoan Léger, Charles Cornet, et al.. (2022). Gallium phosphide-on-insulator integrated photonic structures fabricated using micro-transfer printing. Optical Materials Express. 12(9). 3731–3731. 14 indexed citations
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Fatome, Julien, Bertrand Kibler, François Léo, et al.. (2020). Polarization modulation instability in a nonlinear fiber Kerr resonator. Optics Letters. 45(18). 5069–5069. 11 indexed citations
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Parra‐Rivas, Pedro, Lendert Gelens, & François Léo. (2019). Localized structures in dispersive and doubly resonant optical parametric oscillators. Physical review. E. 100(3). 32219–32219. 17 indexed citations
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Wabnitz, S., Tobias Hansson, Pedro Parra‐Rivas, et al.. (2019). Quadratic Optical Frequency Combs. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 1–2.
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Mosca, S., M. Parisi, I. Ricciardi, et al.. (2018). Modulation Instability Induced Frequency Comb Generation in a Continuously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator. Physical Review Letters. 121(9). 93903–93903. 70 indexed citations
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Rosa, M. De, François Léo, Tobias Hansson, et al.. (2018). Frequency comb generation in a continuously pumped optical parametric oscillator. INO Open Portal. 43. 7–7. 1 indexed citations
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Xue, Xiaoxiao, François Léo, Yi Xuan, et al.. (2016). Second-harmonic-assisted four-wave mixing in chip-based microresonator frequency comb generation. Light Science & Applications. 6(4). e16253–e16253. 88 indexed citations
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Léo, François, et al.. (2014). Generation of coherent supercontinuum in a-Si:H waveguides: experiment and modeling based on measured dispersion profile. Optics Express. 22(23). 28997–28997. 21 indexed citations
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Léo, François, Arnaud Mussot, Pascal Kockaert, et al.. (2013). Nonlinear Symmetry Breaking Induced by Third-Order Dispersion in Optical Fiber Cavities. Physical Review Letters. 110(10). 104103–104103. 37 indexed citations
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Léo, François, Lendert Gelens, Philippe Emplit, Marc Haelterman, & Stéphane Coen. (2013). Dynamics of one-dimensional Kerr cavity solitons. Optics Express. 21(7). 9180–9180. 154 indexed citations
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Gelens, Lendert, François Léo, Philippe Emplit, Marc Haelterman, & Stéphane Coen. (2012). Cavity soliton oscillations in a one-dimensional fiber resonator. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 4. 364–365. 1 indexed citations

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