Kishan Dholakia

36.5k total citations · 11 hit papers
468 papers, 27.6k citations indexed

About

Kishan Dholakia is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kishan Dholakia has authored 468 papers receiving a total of 27.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 305 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 286 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 115 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Kishan Dholakia's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (253 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (144 papers) and Near-Field Optical Microscopy (101 papers). Kishan Dholakia is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (253 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (144 papers) and Near-Field Optical Microscopy (101 papers). Kishan Dholakia collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Kishan Dholakia's co-authors include Tomáš Čižmár, Michaël Mazilu, Jochen Arlt, David McGloin, W. Sibbett, V. Garcés‐Chávez, Miles J. Padgett, Michael P. MacDonald, Gabriel C. Spalding and L. Allen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Kishan Dholakia

455 papers receiving 26.1k citations

Hit Papers

The role of LiO2 solubility in O2 r... 1997 2026 2006 2016 2014 2003 2008 2004 2001 250 500 750 1000
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  1. The role of LiO2 solubility in O2 reduction in aprotic solvents and its consequences for Li–O2 batteries
    2014 1.0k citations P. Ashok, Kishan Dholakia et al. profile →
  2. Microfluidic sorting in an optical lattice
    2003 984 citations Michael P. MacDonald, Gabriel C. Spalding et al. profile →
  3. Optically mediated particle clearing using Airy wavepackets
    2008 976 citations Michaël Mazilu, Kishan Dholakia et al. profile →
  4. Bessel beams: Diffraction in a new light
    2004 944 citations Kishan Dholakia et al. profile →
  5. Controlled Rotation of Optically Trapped Microscopic Particles
    2001 899 citations Lynn Paterson, Michael P. MacDonald et al. profile →
  6. Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner
    1997 853 citations Kishan Dholakia et al. profile →
  7. Simultaneous micromanipulation in multiple planes using a self-reconstructing light beam
    2002 822 citations W. Sibbett, Kishan Dholakia et al. profile →
  8. Shaping the future of manipulation
    2011 734 citations Kishan Dholakia et al. profile →
  9. Light-sheet microscopy using an Airy beam
    2014 668 citations Frank J. Gunn‐Moore, Kishan Dholakia et al. profile →
  10. Generation of high-order Bessel beams by use of an axicon
    2000 628 citations Kishan Dholakia et al. profile →
  11. Creation and Manipulation of Three-Dimensional Optically Trapped Structures
    2002 403 citations Michael P. MacDonald, Lynn Paterson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kishan Dholakia United Kingdom 80 19.9k 15.5k 5.2k 2.9k 2.5k 468 27.6k
Emil Wolf United States 57 21.0k 1.1× 10.9k 0.7× 8.5k 1.6× 2.0k 0.7× 1.4k 0.5× 277 31.2k
R. R. Alfano United States 64 8.7k 0.4× 6.8k 0.4× 5.2k 1.0× 1.3k 0.5× 3.4k 1.4× 792 19.4k
Miles J. Padgett United Kingdom 104 33.2k 1.7× 18.1k 1.2× 8.4k 1.6× 5.3k 1.8× 1.6k 0.6× 529 41.8k
David G. Grier United States 59 11.1k 0.6× 9.8k 0.6× 2.5k 0.5× 1.4k 0.5× 961 0.4× 187 19.8k
Lukáš Novotný Switzerland 79 12.0k 0.6× 17.9k 1.2× 8.6k 1.7× 9.7k 3.4× 1.8k 0.7× 283 27.7k
Yangjian Cai China 63 14.7k 0.7× 6.9k 0.4× 5.2k 1.0× 1.2k 0.4× 424 0.2× 663 16.0k
A. Ashkin United States 53 19.9k 1.0× 12.8k 0.8× 5.7k 1.1× 1.5k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 97 24.5k
Demetri Psaltis United States 70 8.5k 0.4× 5.8k 0.4× 9.4k 1.8× 1.8k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 575 19.6k
Miṅ Gu Australia 72 8.3k 0.4× 9.9k 0.6× 5.7k 1.1× 4.4k 1.5× 2.2k 0.9× 540 20.0k
Xiaocong Yuan China 54 9.9k 0.5× 8.1k 0.5× 4.4k 0.8× 4.6k 1.6× 391 0.2× 545 14.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Baldini, Francesco, Kishan Dholakia, P. M. W. French, et al.. (2025). Shining a Light on the Future of Biophotonics. Journal of Biophotonics. 18(7). e202500148–e202500148. 1 indexed citations
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Wijesinghe, Philip, Erik P. Schartner, Graham D. Bruce, et al.. (2023). UVA Hyperspectral Light-Sheet Microscopy for Volumetric Metabolic Imaging: Application to Preimplantation Embryo Development. ACS Photonics. 10(12). 4177–4187. 8 indexed citations
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Gupta, R., Nils Hempler, Graeme P. A. Malcolm, Kishan Dholakia, & Simon J. Powis. (2023). High throughput hemogram of T cells using digital holographic microscopy and deep learning. Optics Continuum. 2(3). 670–670. 1 indexed citations
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Arita, Yoshihiko, Stephen H. Simpson, Graham D. Bruce, et al.. (2023). Cooling the optical-spin driven limit cycle oscillations of a levitated gyroscope. Communications Physics. 6(1). 8 indexed citations
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Caixeiro, Soraya, Philip Wijesinghe, Kishan Dholakia, & Malte C. Gather. (2023). Snapshot hyperspectral imaging of intracellular lasers. Optics Express. 31(20). 33175–33175. 2 indexed citations
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Arita, Yoshihiko, et al.. (2023). Laser writing of parabolic micromirrors with a high numerical aperture for optical trapping and rotation. Applied Physics Letters. 123(8). 1 indexed citations
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Wijesinghe, Philip, et al.. (2022). Experimentally unsupervised deconvolution for light-sheet microscopy with propagation-invariant beams. Light Science & Applications. 11(1). 319–319. 17 indexed citations
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Tan, Tiffany C. Y., Antony Orth, Philipp Reineck, et al.. (2022). The effect of discrete wavelengths of visible light on the developing murine embryo. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. 39(8). 1825–1837. 11 indexed citations
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Arita, Yoshihiko, Graham D. Bruce, E. M. Wright, et al.. (2022). All-optical sub-Kelvin sympathetic cooling of a levitated microsphere in vacuum. Optica. 9(9). 1000–1000. 20 indexed citations
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Tan, Tiffany C. Y., et al.. (2022). Vitrification within a nanoliter volume: oocyte and embryo cryopreservation within a 3D photopolymerized device. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. 39(9). 1997–2014. 5 indexed citations
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Wijesinghe, Philip & Kishan Dholakia. (2021). Emergent physics-informed design of deep learning for microscopy. Journal of Physics Photonics. 3(2). 21003–21003. 11 indexed citations
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Simpson, Stephen H., Yoshihiko Arita, Kishan Dholakia, & Pavel Zemánek. (2021). Stochastic Hopf bifurcations in vacuum optical tweezers. Physical review. A. 104(4). 5 indexed citations
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Dholakia, Kishan, Bruce W. Drinkwater, & Monika Ritsch‐Marte. (2020). Comparing acoustic and optical forces for biomedical research. Nature Reviews Physics. 2(9). 480–491. 99 indexed citations
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Rodríguez‐Sevilla, Paloma, Yoshihiko Arita, Xiaogang Liu, Daniel Jaque, & Kishan Dholakia. (2018). The Temperature of an Optically Trapped, Rotating Microparticle. ACS Photonics. 5(9). 3772–3778. 25 indexed citations
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Arita, Yoshihiko, et al.. (2016). Rotational Dynamics and Heating of Trapped Nanovaterite Particles. ACS Nano. 10(12). 11505–11510. 37 indexed citations
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Ashok, P., et al.. (2011). Waveguide confined Raman spectroscopy for microfluidic interrogation. Lab on a Chip. 11(7). 1262–1262. 50 indexed citations
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Brown, C. T. A., D. J. Stevenson, X. Tsampoula, et al.. (2008). Enhanced operation of femtosecond lasers and applications in cell transfection. Journal of Biophotonics. 1(3). 183–199. 37 indexed citations
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Paterson, Lynn, B. Agate, Kishan Dholakia, et al.. (2005). Violet diode-assisted photoporation and transfection of cells. 18(8). 30–35. 2 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Michael P., Gabriel C. Spalding, & Kishan Dholakia. (2004). All-optical sorting. Optics and Photonics News. 15(12). 23–23. 3 indexed citations

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