John Ballato

12.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
402 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

John Ballato is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, John Ballato has authored 402 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 299 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 142 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 98 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in John Ballato's work include Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (121 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (103 papers) and Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (91 papers). John Ballato is often cited by papers focused on Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (121 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (103 papers) and Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (91 papers). John Ballato collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Norway. John Ballato's co-authors include Peter D. Dragic, Thomas W. Hawkins, Stephen H. Foulger, Dennis W. Smith, David Carroll, Baris Kokuoz, Courtney Kucera, Maxime Cavillon, Ursula J. Gibson and P. Foy and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

John Ballato

376 papers receiving 9.3k 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.

Carbon Nanotube Doped Polyaniline

2002 597 citations John Ballato et al. profile →
Monopod, Bipod, Tripod, and Tetrapod Gold Nanocrystals

2003 505 citations John Ballato et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
John Ballato	6.1k	3.4k	2.8k	1.6k	1.4k	402	9.6k
Heike Ebendorff‐Heidepriem	6.5k 1.1×	2.8k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	2.1k 1.3×	1.8k 1.3×	348	9.5k
Akihiko Hirata	7.1k 1.2×	9.3k 2.8×	877 0.3×	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	272	18.9k
Shuangchen Ruan	6.6k 1.1×	3.6k 1.1×	4.6k 1.6×	270 0.2×	1.7k 1.2×	587	11.0k
Michael T. Lanagan	5.0k 0.8×	7.2k 2.1×	599 0.2×	1.1k 0.7×	4.0k 2.9×	347	10.9k
Steve W. Martin	3.1k 0.5×	6.1k 1.8×	445 0.2×	3.7k 2.3×	641 0.5×	230	8.7k
Paul H. Holloway	7.1k 1.2×	9.4k 2.8×	1.7k 0.6×	371 0.2×	1.3k 1.0×	306	12.3k
Jiang Li	6.3k 1.0×	5.4k 1.6×	3.4k 1.2×	2.9k 1.8×	534 0.4×	524	9.5k
Mikhaı̈l R. Baklanov	5.2k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	1.3k 0.4×	540 0.3×	877 0.6×	334	8.3k
R. A. Street	17.1k 2.8×	9.2k 2.7×	3.4k 1.2×	949 0.6×	3.7k 2.7×	483	22.9k
Qinyuan Zhang	9.6k 1.6×	14.1k 4.2×	1.8k 0.6×	2.5k 1.5×	1.3k 0.9×	315	16.2k

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Pettes, Michael T., et al.. (2025). Yb:Lu₂O₃ single-crystal fiber: spectroscopy, amplification, and lasing. Optics Letters. 50(7). 2278–2278.

Campbell, J.H., et al.. (2025). Characterization of Er–Ba nanoparticle suspension-doped aluminosilicate optical fibers for 1550 nm amplification. Optics Communications. 579. 131556–131556. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Chun‐Wei, Thomas W. Hawkins, John Ballato, et al.. (2025). Observation of anti-Stokes-fluorescence cooling in commercial Yb-doped silica fibers. Applied Physics Letters. 127(14).

Hawkins, Thomas W., John Ballato, Peter D. Dragic, et al.. (2025). Emerging Trends in Laser-Cooling of Yb-Doped Silicate Fibers. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 43(14). 6839–6845. 2 indexed citations

Hawkins, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Gain optimization of Er-doped fibers doped with Er:BaF2 nanoparticles. W1D.5–W1D.5. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Chun‐Wei, Thomas W. Hawkins, John Ballato, et al.. (2024). Optical cooling of a Yb-doped alumino-phosphosilicate fiber in air by −250 mK. Optics Letters. 49(16). 4501–4501. 5 indexed citations

Ballato, John, et al.. (2023). Reducing the refractive index by replacing an [AlPO ₄ ]° unit with [BPO ₄ ]° in fused silica: comment. Optical Materials Express. 13(8). 2338–2338. 2 indexed citations

Dragic, Peter D., et al.. (2023). The structures and properties of yttrium aluminosilicate glasses with low, medium, and high silica contents. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 614. 122394–122394. 9 indexed citations

Ballato, John, et al.. (2023). The photonics and optics workforce: unleashing the potential for greater industry growth—introduction to the feature issue. Applied Optics. 63(2). POW1–POW1. 1 indexed citations

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Vigneron, P., Thomas W. Hawkins, John Ballato, et al.. (2022). Anti-Stokes fluorescence cooling of nanoparticle-doped silica fibers. Optics Letters. 47(10). 2590–2590. 22 indexed citations

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Engholm, Magnus, Tommy Boilard, Martin Bernier, et al.. (2021). Radiation-balanced silica fiber laser. Optica. 8(6). 830–830. 35 indexed citations

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Wu, Dong, Li Shen, Haonan Ren, et al.. (2020). Four-Wave Mixing-Based Wavelength Conversion and Parametric Amplification in Submicron Silicon Core Fibers. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 27(2). 1–11. 22 indexed citations

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Sampaio, D.V., et al.. (2020). Effect of the Ce3+ concentration on laser-sintered YAG ceramics for white LEDs applications. Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 40(10). 3673–3678. 38 indexed citations

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Laurell, Fredrik, et al.. (2019). Single crystal semiconductor-core optical fiber*. Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo). 3 indexed citations

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Sampaio, D.V., et al.. (2019). Structural, microstructural, and luminescent properties of laser-sintered Eu-doped YAG ceramics. Optical Materials. 89. 334–339. 13 indexed citations

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Baker, Colin, E. J. Friebele, L. Brandon Shaw, et al.. (2018). Recent advances in holmium doped fibers for high-energy lasers (Conference Presentation). 3–3. 2 indexed citations

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Sampaio, D.V., et al.. (2018). Laser sintering and photoluminescence study of Tb-doped yttrium aluminum garnet ceramics. Ceramics International. 45(3). 3797–3802. 17 indexed citations

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Fokine, Michael, Nilesh Patil, Dag W. Breiby, et al.. (2016). Laser recrystallization and inscription of compositional microstructures in crystalline SiGe-core fibres. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13265–13265. 89 indexed citations

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Serivalsatit, Karn, et al.. (2009). Er‐Doped Y ₂ O ₃ Nanoparticles: A Comparison of Different Synthesis Methods. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 92(10). 2247–2253. 42 indexed citations

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Ballato, John, et al.. (2009). Optical and mechanical properties of long-term ordered semiconductors. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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