Ken Kuriki

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Ken Kuriki is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Kuriki has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 9 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 7 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ken Kuriki's work include Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (9 papers), Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (7 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (6 papers). Ken Kuriki is often cited by papers focused on Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (9 papers), Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (7 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (6 papers). Ken Kuriki collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Russia. Ken Kuriki's co-authors include Yasuhiro Koike, Yoshi Okamoto, Yoel Fink, Ofer Shapira, Mehmet Bayındır, Shandon D. Hart, N. Orf, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Fabien Sorin and Burak Temelkuran and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Nature Materials and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ken Kuriki

18 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Plastic Optical Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Containing La... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2007 250 500 750
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. Plastic Optical Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Containing Lanthanide Complexes
    2002 773 citations Ken Kuriki, Yasuhiro Koike et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
  2. Towards multimaterial multifunctional fibres that see, hear, sense and communicate
    2007 390 citations Ayman F. Abouraddy, Mehmet Bayındır et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ken Kuriki Japan 12 962 599 446 297 224 18 1.6k
Peder Bergman Sweden 22 693 0.7× 1.5k 2.5× 475 1.1× 186 0.6× 447 2.0× 108 2.1k
Hua Zou China 22 1.5k 1.6× 1.1k 1.8× 290 0.7× 113 0.4× 247 1.1× 106 1.8k
Cattien V. Nguyen United States 24 1.4k 1.4× 444 0.7× 384 0.9× 193 0.6× 430 1.9× 55 2.2k
L. van Pieterson Netherlands 18 1.8k 1.8× 993 1.7× 350 0.8× 311 1.0× 380 1.7× 29 2.3k
Xuanyi Yuan China 28 1.7k 1.8× 1.5k 2.4× 188 0.4× 143 0.5× 253 1.1× 101 2.3k
José Marqués-Hueso United Kingdom 24 1.1k 1.2× 878 1.5× 178 0.4× 51 0.2× 199 0.9× 80 1.7k
Bining Tian China 23 2.2k 2.3× 1.4k 2.3× 158 0.4× 136 0.5× 208 0.9× 49 2.5k
Kaniyarakkal Sharafudeen China 19 1.0k 1.1× 617 1.0× 144 0.3× 85 0.3× 230 1.0× 40 1.4k
Xiaoting Wang China 26 2.0k 2.1× 1.7k 2.9× 401 0.9× 123 0.4× 389 1.7× 60 2.7k
Min Feng China 16 820 0.9× 330 0.6× 332 0.7× 62 0.2× 114 0.5× 64 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ken Kuriki

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken Kuriki

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ken Kuriki. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ken Kuriki 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 Ken Kuriki. Ken Kuriki is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Gumennik, Alexander, W. Caleb McDaniel, Fabien Sorin, et al.. (2012). Enhanced chemiluminescent detection scheme for trace vapor sensing in pneumatically-tuned hollow core photonic bandgap fibers. Optics Express. 20(11). 12407–12407. 34 indexed citations
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Abouraddy, Ayman F., Mehmet Bayındır, Gaboury Benoit, et al.. (2007). Towards multimaterial multifunctional fibres that see, hear, sense and communicate. Nature Materials. 6(5). 336–347. 390 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shapira, Ofer, Ken Kuriki, N. Orf, et al.. (2006). Surface-emitting fiber lasers. Optics Express. 14(9). 3929–3929. 62 indexed citations
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Benoit, Gilles, et al.. (2005). Dynamic all-optical tuning of transverse resonant cavity modes in photonic bandgap fibers. Optics Letters. 30(13). 1620–1620. 17 indexed citations
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Kuriki, Ken, Ofer Shapira, Shandon D. Hart, et al.. (2004). Hollow multilayer photonic bandgap fibers for NIR applications. Optics Express. 12(8). 1510–1510. 78 indexed citations
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Kuriki, Ken, et al.. (2003). Observation of fluorescence in an optically pumped erbium-containing perfluorinated medium at 15 µm. Optics Letters. 28(7). 570–570. 5 indexed citations
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Kuriki, Ken, et al.. (2002). Spectroscopic properties of lanthanide chelates in perfluorinated plastics for optical applications. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 19(8). 1844–1844. 11 indexed citations
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Kuriki, Ken, Yasuhiro Koike, & Yoshi Okamoto. (2002). Plastic Optical Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Containing Lanthanide Complexes. Chemical Reviews. 102(6). 2347–2356. 773 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kuriki, Ken, Yasuhiro Koike, & Yoshi Okamoto. (2002). ChemInform Abstract: Plastic Optical Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Containing Lanthanoid Complexes. ChemInform. 33(34). 1 indexed citations
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Kuriki, Ken, et al.. (2001). Fabrication and optical properties of neodymium-,praseodymium- anderbium-chelates-doped plastic optical fibres. Electronics Letters. 37(7). 415–417. 31 indexed citations
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Kuriki, Ken, Takumi Kobayashi, T. Tamura, et al.. (2000). Fabrication and properties of polymer optical fibers containing Nd-chelate. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 12(8). 989–991. 21 indexed citations
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Kuriki, Ken, et al.. (2000). Organic dye-doped polymer optical fiber laser. Polymers for Advanced Technologies. 11(8-12). 612–616. 25 indexed citations
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Kuriki, Ken, Takeyuki Kobayashi, T. Tamura, et al.. (2000). Fabrication and properties of polymer optical fiber containing Nd-chelate for optical amplification. 1 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Takeyuki, et al.. (2000). Rare-earth-doped polymer optical fibers for optical amplification. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3942. 158–158. 2 indexed citations
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Kuriki, Ken, et al.. (2000). High-performance polymer optical fiber lasers and amplifiers. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3939. 28–28. 3 indexed citations
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Kuriki, Ken, et al.. (2000). High-efficiency organic dye-doped polymer optical fiber lasers. Applied Physics Letters. 77(3). 331–333. 50 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Takeyuki, et al.. (1999). <title>High-power polymer optical fiber lasers and amplifiers</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3623. 206–214. 17 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Takeyuki, et al.. (1997). Fabrication and superfluorescence of rare-earth chelate-doped graded index polymer optical fibers. Applied Physics Letters. 71(17). 2421–2423. 83 indexed citations

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