John C. Travers

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
139 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

John C. Travers is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, John C. Travers has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 120 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 7 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in John C. Travers's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (120 papers), Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (113 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (79 papers). John C. Travers is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (120 papers), Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (113 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (79 papers). John C. Travers collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and France. John C. Travers's co-authors include P. St. J. Russell, J. R. Taylor, Wonkeun Chang, С. В. Попов, A. Abdolvand, Nicolas Y. Joly, P. Hölzer, E. J. R. Kelleher, Andrea C. Ferrari and Z. Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Reviews of Modern Physics.

In The Last Decade

John C. Travers

123 papers receiving 4.2k citations

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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.

Hollow-core photonic crystal fibres for gas-based nonlinear optics

2014 387 citations P. St. J. Russell, Wonkeun Chang et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John C. Travers United Kingdom	33	3.9k	3.8k	259	192	164	139	4.5k
Nicolas Y. Joly Germany	32	2.8k 0.7×	3.1k 0.8×	156 0.6×	169 0.9×	54 0.3×	119	3.7k
Almantas Galvanauskas United States	36	3.2k 0.8×	3.3k 0.9×	257 1.0×	68 0.4×	67 0.4×	191	3.8k
Anton Husakou Germany	27	2.2k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	240 0.9×	128 0.7×	67 0.4×	75	2.7k
Dirk Sutter Germany	27	3.1k 0.8×	2.4k 0.6×	235 0.9×	53 0.3×	111 0.7×	109	3.5k
N. Matuschek Switzerland	19	2.9k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	132 0.5×	77 0.4×	157 1.0×	68	3.3k
F. Morier‐Genoud Switzerland	31	3.7k 1.0×	2.6k 0.7×	111 0.4×	168 0.9×	447 2.7×	98	4.2k
A.J. Stentz United States	15	3.4k 0.9×	3.3k 0.9×	385 1.5×	93 0.5×	28 0.2×	48	4.1k
K. J. Weingarten Switzerland	28	3.1k 0.8×	3.2k 0.8×	92 0.4×	35 0.2×	209 1.3×	86	3.6k
D. Harter United States	25	1.9k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	111 0.4×	130 0.7×	142 0.9×	74	2.1k
R. Paschotta Switzerland	36	4.5k 1.2×	4.7k 1.3×	127 0.5×	38 0.2×	271 1.7×	112	5.1k

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Allum, Felix, F. Sylla, Kyung Taec Kim, et al.. (2025). Characterizing few-cycle UV resonant dispersive waves through direct field sampling. Optics Letters. 50(16). 4962–4962.

Brahms, Christian, Lin Zhang, Xiao Shen, et al.. (2025). Decoupled few-femtosecond phase transitions in vanadium dioxide. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3714–3714. 5 indexed citations

Brahms, Christian, et al.. (2025). Decoupling structural molecular dynamics from excited state lifetimes using few-femtosecond ultraviolet resonant dispersive waves. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9986–9986.

Nordmann, Joleik, et al.. (2025). Extreme Soliton Dynamics for Terawatt-Scale Optical Attosecond Pulses and 30 GW-Scale Sub-3 fs Far-Ultraviolet Pulses. 1–1.

Valančiūtė, Asta, A. David Burden, Stuart Dickson, et al.. (2025). Far-ultraviolet light causes direct DNA damage in human lung cells and tissues. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 18055–18055.

Jarque, Enrique Conejero, Rocío Borrego‐Varillas, Matteo Lucchini, et al.. (2024). Robust Isolated Attosecond Pulse Generation with Self-Compressed Subcycle Drivers from Hollow Capillary Fibers. ACS Photonics. 11(4). 1673–1683. 4 indexed citations

Brahms, Christian, et al.. (2024). Tuneable Vacuum Ultraviolet Generation from an Ytterbium-based Ultrafast Laser by Resonant Dispersive Wave Emission. HW3B.5–HW3B.5. 1 indexed citations

Brahms, Christian, et al.. (2023). Dispersion tuning of nonlinear optical pulse dynamics in gas-filled hollow capillary fibers. Physical review. A. 107(6). 12 indexed citations

Reduzzi, Maurizio, Liqiang Mai, Matteo Lucchini, et al.. (2023). Direct temporal characterization of sub-3-fs deep UV pulses generated by resonant dispersive wave emission. Optics Express. 31(16). 26854–26854. 26 indexed citations

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Belli, Federico, et al.. (2023). Generation and characterization of frequency tunable sub-15-fs pulses in a gas-filled hollow-core fiber pumped by a Yb:KGW laser. Optics Letters. 48(9). 2277–2277. 9 indexed citations

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Harrington, Kerrianne, R.J. Mears, Christian Brahms, et al.. (2023). Low-Threshold Green-Pumped Ultraviolet Resonant Dispersive-Wave Emission in Small-Core Anti-Resonant Hollow-Fibre. 1–1. 2 indexed citations

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Brahms, Christian, Dane R. Austin, Francesco Tani, et al.. (2019). Direct characterization of tuneable few-femtosecond dispersive-wave pulses in the deep UV. Optics Letters. 44(4). 731–731. 32 indexed citations

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Saleh, Mohammed F., Wonkeun Chang, John C. Travers, P. St. J. Russell, & Fabio Biancalana. (2012). Plasma-Induced Asymmetric Self-Phase Modulation and Modulational Instability in Gas-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers. Physical Review Letters. 109(11). 113902–113902. 36 indexed citations

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Stark, Sebastian, John C. Travers, & P. St. J. Russell. (2012). Extreme supercontinuum generation to the deep UV. Optics Letters. 37(5). 770–770. 44 indexed citations

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Kelleher, E. J. R., Miro Erkintalo, & John C. Travers. (2012). Fission of solitons in continuous-wave supercontinuum. Optics Letters. 37(24). 5217–5217. 7 indexed citations

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Castellani, Carlos E. S., E. J. R. Kelleher, John C. Travers, et al.. (2011). Ultrafast Raman laser mode-locked by nanotubes. Optics Letters. 36(20). 3996–3996. 57 indexed citations

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Kelleher, E. J. R., John C. Travers, Erich P. Ippen, et al.. (2009). Generation and direct measurement of giant chirp in a passively mode-locked laser. Optics Letters. 34(22). 3526–3526. 84 indexed citations

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Travers, John C., A. B. Rulkov, С. В. Попов, et al.. (2006). Dispersion-Decreasing PCF for Blue-UV Supercontinuum Generation. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 2 indexed citations

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Travers, John C., С. В. Попов, & J. R. Taylor. (2005). Extended blue supercontinuum generation in cascaded holey fibers. Optics Letters. 30(23). 3132–3132. 77 indexed citations

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Travers, John C., Richard Kennedy, С. В. Попов, et al.. (2005). Extended continuous-wave supercontinuum generation in a low-water-loss holey fiber. Optics Letters. 30(15). 1938–1938. 24 indexed citations

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