Isaac Freund

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
147 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Isaac Freund is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Acoustics and Ultrasonics. According to data from OpenAlex, Isaac Freund has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 46 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 44 papers in Acoustics and Ultrasonics. Recurrent topics in Isaac Freund's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (61 papers), Random lasers and scattering media (44 papers) and Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (37 papers). Isaac Freund is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (61 papers), Random lasers and scattering media (44 papers) and Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (37 papers). Isaac Freund collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Ukraine and United States. Isaac Freund's co-authors include M. Rosenbluh, Natalya Shvartsman, Moshe Deutsch, Shechao Feng, Shmuel Roth, M. Kaveh, M. S. Soskin, B. F. Levine, I. Edrei and David A. Kessler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Isaac Freund

145 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

Memory Effects in Propagation of Optical Waves through Di... 1988 2026 2000 2013 1988 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Memory Effects in Propagation of Optical Waves through Disordered Media
    1988 567 citations Isaac Freund, M. Rosenbluh et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Isaac Freund Israel 40 3.6k 2.3k 1.5k 636 599 147 5.6k
Tomáš Čižmár Czechia 39 4.3k 1.2× 3.9k 1.7× 1.6k 1.1× 728 1.1× 1.3k 2.1× 103 6.4k
Rafael Piestun United States 39 2.3k 0.6× 2.3k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 1.8k 2.8× 880 1.5× 129 5.1k
Aristide Dogariu United States 40 6.3k 1.8× 4.1k 1.7× 819 0.5× 352 0.6× 1.6k 2.7× 239 7.9k
Monika Ritsch‐Marte Austria 42 4.1k 1.2× 2.8k 1.2× 364 0.2× 641 1.0× 839 1.4× 129 6.1k
Michaël Mazilu United Kingdom 38 4.1k 1.1× 2.8k 1.2× 335 0.2× 846 1.3× 1.1k 1.9× 135 5.5k
J. C. Dainty United Kingdom 33 3.4k 1.0× 2.0k 0.9× 501 0.3× 519 0.8× 1.9k 3.1× 179 6.8k
Jacopo Bertolotti United Kingdom 25 1.7k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 1.7k 1.1× 154 0.2× 937 1.6× 63 4.0k
Stefan Bernet Austria 38 3.8k 1.1× 2.1k 0.9× 210 0.1× 458 0.7× 746 1.2× 109 4.7k
Jonathan Leach United Kingdom 50 7.2k 2.0× 3.5k 1.5× 741 0.5× 566 0.9× 1.6k 2.7× 181 9.2k
Daomu Zhao China 44 4.4k 1.2× 2.2k 0.9× 536 0.4× 126 0.2× 1.4k 2.3× 341 6.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Isaac Freund

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Isaac Freund

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Freund, Isaac. (2012). Ordinary polarization singularities in three-dimensional optical fields. Optics Letters. 37(12). 2223–2223. 15 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac. (2011). Optical Möbius strips, twisted ribbons, and the index theorem. Optics Letters. 36(23). 4506–4506. 19 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac. (2010). Multitwist optical Möbius strips. Optics Letters. 35(2). 148–148. 42 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac. (2009). Optical Möbius strips in three dimensional ellipse fields: II. Lines of linear polarization. Optics Communications. 283(1). 16–28. 41 indexed citations
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Kessler, David A. & Isaac Freund. (2008). Singularities in speckled speckle: screening. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 25(12). 2932–2932.
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Egorov, Roman I., M. S. Soskin, David A. Kessler, & Isaac Freund. (2008). Experimental Measurements of Topological Singularity Screening in Random Paraxial Scalar and Vector Optical Fields. Physical Review Letters. 100(10). 103901–103901. 19 indexed citations
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Soskin, M. S., Roman I. Egorov, & Isaac Freund. (2007). Experimental umbilic diabolos in random optical fields. Optics Letters. 32(8). 891–891. 1 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac, M. S. Soskin, Roman I. Egorov, & V. G. Denisenko. (2006). Diabolo creation and annihilation. Optics Letters. 31(16). 2381–2381. 7 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac. (2005). Polarization singularity proliferation in three-dimensional ellipse fields. Optics Letters. 30(4). 433–433. 6 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac. (2004). Polarization singularity democracy: WYSIWYG. Optics Letters. 29(15). 1715–1715. 6 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac. (2004). Polarization singularities in optical lattices. Optics Letters. 29(8). 875–875. 40 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac. (2004). Emergent polarization singularities. Optics Letters. 29(6). 539–539. 17 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac. (2004). Coherency matrix description of optical polarization singularities. Journal of Optics A Pure and Applied Optics. 6(5). S229–S234. 19 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac. (2003). Polychromatic polarization singularities. Optics Letters. 28(22). 2150–2150. 18 indexed citations
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Mokhun, A., M. S. Soskin, & Isaac Freund. (2002). Elliptic critical points: C-points, a-lines, and the sign rule. Optics Letters. 27(12). 995–995. 63 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac. (2000). Optical vortex trajectories. Optics Communications. 181(1-3). 19–33. 70 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac, et al.. (2000). Higher-order extrema in two-dimensional wave fields. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 17(3). 434–434. 9 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac. (1996). “1001” Correlations in Random Wave Fields. 101. AWD.12–AWD.12. 2 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac & M. Rosenbluh. (1991). Time reversal symmetry of multiply scattered speckle patterns. Optics Communications. 82(3-4). 362–369. 21 indexed citations
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Freund, Isaac. (1990). Stokes-vector reconstruction. Optics Letters. 15(24). 1425–1425. 22 indexed citations

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