Lawrence Shah

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
115 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Lawrence Shah is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lawrence Shah has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 81 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 23 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Lawrence Shah's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (71 papers), Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (60 papers) and Solid State Laser Technologies (33 papers). Lawrence Shah is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (71 papers), Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (60 papers) and Solid State Laser Technologies (33 papers). Lawrence Shah collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Denmark. Lawrence Shah's co-authors include Martin Richardson, Alan Arai, Peter R. Herman, Shane M. Eaton, Pankaj Kadwani, Fumiyo Yoshino, Haibin Zhang, James M. Bovatsek, Ilya Mingareev and M. E. Fermann and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Lawrence Shah

101 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Heat accumulation effects in femtosecond laser-written waveguides with variable repetition rate

2005 619 citations Lawrence Shah et al. Optics Express profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lawrence Shah United States	24	1.6k	1.5k	1.0k	648	284	115	2.7k
Tsing-Hua Her United States	14	734 0.5×	696 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	934 1.4×	543 1.9×	62	2.1k
Matthieu Lancry France	27	667 0.4×	635 0.4×	1.5k 1.5×	888 1.4×	330 1.2×	155	2.3k
Kiyotaka Miura Japan	20	496 0.3×	661 0.4×	1.5k 1.5×	988 1.5×	468 1.6×	74	2.2k
Wanguo Zheng China	23	594 0.4×	418 0.3×	952 0.9×	785 1.2×	463 1.6×	182	1.9k
Sven Döring Germany	24	350 0.2×	551 0.4×	990 1.0×	628 1.0×	414 1.5×	55	1.6k
Eric Mottay France	27	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	588 0.6×	362 0.6×	137 0.5×	133	2.0k
Airán Ródenas Spain	24	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	866 0.9×	448 0.7×	350 1.2×	76	1.9k
Inka Manek‐Hönninger France	19	646 0.4×	526 0.3×	383 0.4×	277 0.4×	129 0.5×	62	1.2k
Mireille Commandré France	22	547 0.3×	345 0.2×	791 0.8×	477 0.7×	243 0.9×	104	1.5k
David Grojo France	24	503 0.3×	529 0.3×	1.1k 1.1×	948 1.5×	388 1.4×	100	1.8k

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Hintzen, Jordi C. J., Lawrence Shah, R. Sher, et al.. (2025). Evidence of an activity-enhancing conformational shift in Arabidopsis thaliana plant cysteine oxidase 4 induced by binding of substrate or substrate-mimics. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 301(11). 110770–110770.

Khan, Abbas, Lawrence Shah, Muhammad Arsalan, et al.. (2025). Physical, structural, optical and thermal investigations of TeO2-modified borate glass for solid-state devices. Results in Physics. 73. 108213–108213. 1 indexed citations

Sisken, Laura, Christian Gaida, Martin Gebhardt, et al.. (2014). Utilizing the transparency of semiconductors via "backside" machining with a nanosecond 2 μm Tm:fiber laser. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8968. 89680W–89680W. 8 indexed citations

Gaida, Christian, Martin Gebhardt, Pankaj Kadwani, et al.. (2013). Amplification of nanosecond pulses to megawatt peak power levels in Tm^3+-doped photonic crystal fiber rod. Optics Letters. 38(5). 691–691. 34 indexed citations

Sincore, Alex, Jens Thomas, Christian Voigtländer, et al.. (2013). Highly polarized all-fiber thulium laser with femtosecond-laser-written fiber Bragg gratings. Optics Express. 21(9). 10467–10467. 12 indexed citations

Gaida, Christian, Martin Gebhardt, Pankaj Kadwani, et al.. (2013). Peak power scaling in Tm doped fiber lasers to MW-level. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8601. 86012Y–86012Y. 1 indexed citations

Kadwani, Pankaj, et al.. (2012). Comparison of higher-order mode suppression and Q-switched laser performance in thulium-doped large mode area and photonic crystal fibers. Optics Express. 20(22). 24295–24295. 15 indexed citations

Shah, Lawrence, R. Andrew Sims, Pankaj Kadwani, et al.. (2012). Integrated Tm:fiber MOPA with polarized output and narrow linewidth with 100 W average power. Optics Express. 20(18). 20558–20558. 17 indexed citations

Kadwani, Pankaj, Norbert Modsching, R. Andrew Sims, et al.. (2012). Q-switched thulium-doped photonic crystal fiber laser. Optics Letters. 37(10). 1664–1664. 20 indexed citations

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Gaida, Christian, Pankaj Kadwani, Lasse Leick, et al.. (2012). CW-lasing and amplification in Tm^3+-doped photonic crystal fiber rod. Optics Letters. 37(21). 4513–4513. 19 indexed citations

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Mingareev, Ilya, et al.. (2012). Welding of polymers using a 2μm thulium fiber laser. Optics & Laser Technology. 44(7). 2095–2099. 288 indexed citations

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Sims, R. Andrew, Pankaj Kadwani, Timothy S. McComb, et al.. (2011). Spectral narrowing and stabilization of thulium fiber lasers using guided-mode resonance filters. Optics Letters. 36(5). 737–737. 17 indexed citations

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Modsching, Norbert, Pankaj Kadwani, R. Andrew Sims, et al.. (2011). Lasing in thulium-doped polarizing photonic crystal fiber. Optics Letters. 36(19). 3873–3873. 38 indexed citations

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Baudelet, Matthieu, et al.. (2010). Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of copper with a 2 μm thulium fiber laser. Optics Express. 18(8). 7905–7905. 67 indexed citations

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McComb, Timothy S., Lawrence Shah, R. Andrew Sims, et al.. (2010). Thulium Fiber Lasers Stabilized by a Volume Bragg Grating in High Power, Tunable and Q-Switched Configurations. Lasers, Sources, and Related Photonic Devices. 38. AMB2–AMB2. 1 indexed citations

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McComb, Timothy S., R. Andrew Sims, Pankaj Kadwani, et al.. (2010). High-power widely tunable thulium fiber lasers. Applied Optics. 49(32). 6236–6236. 89 indexed citations

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McComb, Timothy S., Lawrence Shah, R. Andrew Sims, et al.. (2010). Atmospheric propagation testing with a high power, tunable thulium fiber laser system. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7578. 75781G–75781G. 6 indexed citations

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McComb, Timothy S., et al.. (2009). High Power, Tunable Thulium Fiber Laser System for Atmospheric Propagation Experiments. CThR5–CThR5. 5 indexed citations

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Kam, Dong-Hyuck, Lawrence Shah, & J. Mazumder. (2008). Laser micromachining of microchannel branching networks into silicon with a femtosecond fiber laser.

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Shah, Lawrence, Zhenlin Liu, Ingmar Hartl, G. Imeshev, & M. E. Fermann. (2005). 12 µJ, 1.2 W Femtosecond Pulse Generation at 346 nm from a Frequency-Tripled Yb Cubicon Fiber Amplifier. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 4 indexed citations

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