J. P. Woerdman

23.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
281 papers, 17.6k citations indexed

About

J. P. Woerdman is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, J. P. Woerdman has authored 281 papers receiving a total of 17.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 223 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 129 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 49 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in J. P. Woerdman's work include Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (97 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (93 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (63 papers). J. P. Woerdman is often cited by papers focused on Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (97 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (93 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (63 papers). J. P. Woerdman collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom. J. P. Woerdman's co-authors include Marco W. Beijersbergen, L. Allen, R. J. C. Spreeuw, M. P. van Exter, Andrea Aiello, M. Kristensen, E. R. Eliel, Michele Merano, E. Altewischer and S. S. R. Oemrawsingh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

J. P. Woerdman

274 papers receiving 16.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Orbital angular momentum of light and the transformation of Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes

1992 7.4k citations R. J. C. Spreeuw, J. P. Woerdman et al. Physical Review A profile →
Helical-wavefront laser beams produced with a spiral phaseplate

1994 1.2k citations J. P. Woerdman et al. profile →
Astigmatic laser mode converters and transfer of orbital angular momentum

1993 1.1k citations J. P. Woerdman et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J. P. Woerdman

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Fiber Transport of Spatially Entangled Photons 2011 ·Physical Review Letters ·W. Löffler, T. G. Euser, E. R. Eliel, M. Scharrer, P. St. J. Russell, J. P. Woerdman	44
2	Transport of orbital-angular-momentum entanglement through a turbulent atmosphere 2011 ·Optics Express ·(unknown), C. H. Monken, E. R. Eliel, J. P. Woerdman	76
3	Spin Hall effect of light in metallic reflection 2011 ·Optics Letters ·Nathaniel Hermosa, (unknown), Andrea Aiello, J. P. Woerdman	87
4	Search for Hermite-Gauss mode rotation in cholesteric liquid crystals 2011 ·Optics Express ·W. Löffler, M. P. van Exter, G. W. ’t Hooft, G. Nienhuis, Dirk J. Broer, J. P. Woerdman	8
5	Goos-Hänchen shift for a rough metallic mirror 2009 ·Optics Express ·Michele Merano, Jörg B. Götte, Andrea Aiello, M. P. van Exter, J. P. Woerdman	13
6	Brewster cross polarization 2009 ·Optics Letters ·Andrea Aiello, Michele Merano, J. P. Woerdman	50
7	Shannon Dimensionality of Quantum Channels and Its Application to Photon Entanglement 2008 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), S. S. R. Oemrawsingh, Andrea Aiello, M. P. van Exter, E. R. Eliel, G. W. ’t Hooft, J. P. Woerdman	51
8	Maximum-likelihood estimation of Mueller matrices 2006 ·Optics Letters ·Andrea Aiello, Graciana Puentes, D. Voigt, J. P. Woerdman	37
9	Experimental Demonstration of Fractional Orbital Angular Momentum Entanglement of Two Photons 2005 ·Physical Review Letters ·S. S. R. Oemrawsingh, Xuan Ma, D. Voigt, Andrea Aiello, E. R. Eliel, G. W. ’t Hooft, J. P. Woerdman	180
10	Observation of landau-zener dynamics in classal optical systems 2005 ·Dirk Bouwmeester, (unknown), (unknown), C. A. Schrama, (unknown), J. P. Woerdman	2
11	Huygens description of resonance phenomena in subwavelength hole arrays 2005 ·Journal of the Optical Society of America A ·Cyriaque Genet, M. P. van Exter, J. P. Woerdman	23
12	Production and characterization of spiral phase plates for optical wavelengths 2004 ·Applied Optics ·S. S. R. Oemrawsingh, J. A. W. van Houwelingen, E. R. Eliel, J. P. Woerdman, Emile Verstegen, J. G. Kloosterboer, G. W. ’t Hooft	270
13	Intrinsic orbital angular momentum of paraxial beams with off-axis imprinted vortices 2004 ·Journal of the Optical Society of America A ·S. S. R. Oemrawsingh, E. R. Eliel, G. Nienhuis, J. P. Woerdman	36
14	Ray splitting in paraxial optical cavities 2004 ·Physical Review E ·Graciana Puentes, Andrea Aiello, J. P. Woerdman	1
15	Polarization supermodes of phase-coupled arrays of vertical-cavity semiconductor lasers 2003 ·Laser Physics ·Marnix Willemsen, M. P. van Exter, J. P. Woerdman, (unknown), (unknown), E. Kapon	0
16	Experimental Observation of Wave Chaos in a Conventional Optical Resonator 2002 ·Physical Review Letters ·J. Dingjan, E. Altewischer, M. P. van Exter, J. P. Woerdman	11
17	Semiclassical dynamics of excess quantum noise 2001 ·Physical Review A ·M. P. van Exter, N. J. van Druten, (unknown), S. M. Dutra, G. Nienhuis, J. P. Woerdman	6
18	Photonic band structure of optical rings 1990 ·J. P. Woerdman, R. J. C. Spreeuw, (unknown), N. J. van Druten, E. R. Eliel	2
19	Effect of saturation on the spectrum of degenerate four-wave mixing in atomic sodium vapor 1981 ·Optics Letters ·J. P. Woerdman, M. F. H. Schuurmans	29
20	Laser-excited broadband violet emission from sodium vapor (A) 1978 ·Journal of the Optical Society of America A ·J. P. Woerdman	3

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