Joel Carpenter

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Joel Carpenter is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel Carpenter has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 41 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 17 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Joel Carpenter's work include Optical Network Technologies (50 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (36 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (20 papers). Joel Carpenter is often cited by papers focused on Optical Network Technologies (50 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (36 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (20 papers). Joel Carpenter collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Joel Carpenter's co-authors include Jochen Schröder, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Timothy D. Wilkinson, Nicolas K. Fontaine, David T. Neilson, Roland Ryf, Haoshuo Chen, Kwangwoong Kim, Benn C. Thomsen and David J. Richardson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Proceedings of the IEEE and Nature Photonics.

In The Last Decade

Joel Carpenter

88 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Laguerre-Gaussian mode sorter 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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. Laguerre-Gaussian mode sorter
    2019 343 citations Nicolas K. Fontaine, Roland Ryf et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joel Carpenter Australia 19 1.1k 780 285 248 248 92 1.6k
Raktim Sarma United States 14 496 0.5× 532 0.7× 322 1.1× 129 0.5× 327 1.3× 52 976
Haoshuo Chen United States 27 2.5k 2.3× 894 1.1× 264 0.9× 242 1.0× 79 0.3× 214 2.8k
Alessia Pasquazi United Kingdom 25 1.8k 1.6× 1.9k 2.5× 215 0.8× 226 0.9× 322 1.3× 100 2.4k
Bienvenu Ndagano South Africa 14 328 0.3× 1.2k 1.6× 509 1.8× 333 1.3× 139 0.6× 22 1.4k
Isaac Nape South Africa 19 390 0.4× 1.1k 1.5× 410 1.4× 395 1.6× 108 0.4× 55 1.4k
Brandon Rodenburg United States 12 398 0.4× 992 1.3× 334 1.2× 307 1.2× 99 0.4× 22 1.1k
Zhimin Shi United States 20 736 0.7× 1.3k 1.7× 619 2.2× 250 1.0× 106 0.4× 86 1.7k
Juan Sebastian Totero Gongora United Kingdom 17 428 0.4× 506 0.6× 374 1.3× 87 0.4× 306 1.2× 44 1.0k
Melanie McLaren South Africa 15 446 0.4× 1.7k 2.1× 570 2.0× 638 2.6× 102 0.4× 24 1.8k
Dan Li China 19 689 0.6× 614 0.8× 147 0.5× 62 0.3× 140 0.6× 123 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Joel Carpenter

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joel Carpenter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Joel Carpenter. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Joel Carpenter. The network helps show where Joel Carpenter may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joel Carpenter

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joel Carpenter. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joel Carpenter based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Joel Carpenter. Joel Carpenter is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Carpenter, Joel, et al.. (2025). Self-configuring high-speed multiplane light conversion. 9–9. 2 indexed citations
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Plöschner, Martin, et al.. (2024). Programable High-dimensional Quantum Gates via MPLC. FM5C.5–FM5C.5. 1 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Joel, et al.. (2024). Fast and light-efficient wavefront shaping with a MEMS phase-only light modulator. Optics Express. 32(24). 43300–43300. 6 indexed citations
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Rademacher, Georg, Ruben S. Lúıs, Benjamin J. Puttnam, et al.. (2023). 3.56 peta-bit/s C+L band transmission over a 55-mode multi-mode fiber. IET conference proceedings.. 2023(34). 9–12. 5 indexed citations
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Plöschner, Martin, et al.. (2022). Spatial tomography of light resolved in time, spectrum, and polarisation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4294–4294. 5 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Joel. (2022). digHolo : High-speed library for off-axis digital holography and Hermite-Gaussian decomposition. W5A.53–W5A.53. 2 indexed citations
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Mounaix, Mickaël, Nicolas K. Fontaine, David T. Neilson, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Time reversed optical waves by arbitrary vector spatiotemporal field generation. Nature Communications. 12(1). 534–534. 1 indexed citations
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Plöschner, Martin, et al.. (2021). High-dimensional Stokes-space spatial beam analyzer. FTu6C.2–FTu6C.2. 2 indexed citations
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Lin, Di, Joel Carpenter, Yutong Feng, et al.. (2020). Reconfigurable structured light generation in a multicore fibre amplifier. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3986–3986. 65 indexed citations
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Fontaine, Nicolas K., Roland Ryf, Haoshuo Chen, et al.. (2019). Laguerre-Gaussian mode sorter. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1865–1865. 343 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nazemosadat, Elham, Yang Chen, Songnian Fu, et al.. (2019). Design, fabrication, and characterization of a highly nonlinear few-mode fiber. Photonics Research. 7(11). 1354–1354. 12 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Joel, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Roland Ryf, et al.. (2019). Laguerre-Gaussian mode sorter. 35–35. 18 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Joel, Benjamin J. Eggleton, & Jochen Schröder. (2015). Observation of Eisenbud–Wigner–Smith states as principal modes in multimode fibre. Nature Photonics. 9(11). 751–757. 126 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Joel, Sergio G. Leon-Saval, Benjamin J. Eggleton, & Jochen Schröder. (2014). Spatial light modulators for sub-systems and characterization in SDM. Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. 23–24. 1 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Joel, Sergio G. Leon-Saval, Joss Bland‐Hawthorn, et al.. (2014). 1x11 few-mode fiber wavelength selective switch using photonic lanterns. Optics Express. 22(3). 2216–2216. 35 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Joel, Benn C. Thomsen, & Timothy D. Wilkinson. (2012). Mode Division Multiplexing of Modes With the Same Azimuthal Index. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 24(21). 1969–1972. 12 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Joel & Timothy D. Wilkinson. (2011). Computation of high-stability DC balancing scheme for ferroelectric liquid crystal on silicon holograms using graphics processing units. Optics Letters. 36(8). 1323–1323. 1 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Joel, et al.. (1982). The fabrication and surface tolerance measurements of the JPL clear aperture microwave antenna. Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Progress Report. 71. 104–116. 1 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Joel. (1980). Fundamentalist Institutions and the Rise of Evangelical Protestantism, 1929–1942. Church History. 49(1). 62–75. 30 indexed citations

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