Luis Plaja

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
139 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Luis Plaja is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Luis Plaja has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 55 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 26 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Luis Plaja's work include Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (126 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (64 papers) and Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (54 papers). Luis Plaja is often cited by papers focused on Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (126 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (64 papers) and Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (54 papers). Luis Plaja collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Germany. Luis Plaja's co-authors include Carlos Hernández-García, L. Roso, Julio San Román, Andreas Becker, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, Antonio Picón, Agnieszka Jaroń-Becker, Tenio Popmintchev and Ming-Chang Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Luis Plaja

135 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Bright Coherent Ultrahigh Harmonics in the keV X-ray Regime from Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Lasers

2012 1.2k citations Tenio Popmintchev, Ming-Chang Chen et al. Science profile →
Generation of extreme-ultraviolet beams with time-varying orbital angular momentum

2019 240 citations Laura Rego, Kevin M. Dorney et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luis Plaja Spain	30	4.2k	1.4k	690	665	216	139	4.4k
Ivan P. Christov Bulgaria	32	4.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	804 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	314 1.5×	98	4.6k
L. Gallmann Switzerland	37	4.2k 1.0×	857 0.6×	925 1.3×	1.2k 1.7×	202 0.9×	105	4.4k
Marcelo F. Ciappina Spain	31	2.7k 0.6×	625 0.4×	588 0.9×	350 0.5×	223 1.0×	172	2.9k
Oliver D. Mücke Germany	25	3.5k 0.8×	836 0.6×	528 0.8×	1.3k 2.0×	118 0.5×	79	3.7k
Jens Biegert Spain	44	6.2k 1.5×	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 2.1×	2.0k 3.1×	333 1.5×	176	6.5k
Nirit Dudovich Israel	38	4.9k 1.2×	543 0.4×	1.7k 2.5×	633 1.0×	127 0.6×	84	5.5k
Shambhu Ghimire United States	29	4.6k 1.1×	471 0.3×	597 0.9×	1.5k 2.2×	155 0.7×	58	5.0k
Tenio Popmintchev United States	24	4.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	822 1.2×	1.0k 1.5×	207 1.0×	74	4.5k
Sterling Backus United States	31	4.7k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	676 1.0×	1.6k 2.5×	629 2.9×	80	5.5k
Pengfei Lan China	35	4.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.8×	645 1.0×	168 0.8×	199	4.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Plaja, Luis, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, et al.. (2025). Extreme-ultraviolet spatiotemporal vortices via high harmonic generation. Nature Photonics. 19(8). 817–824. 7 indexed citations

Román, Julio San, et al.. (2024). Topological high-harmonic spectroscopy. Communications Physics. 7(1). 11 indexed citations

Román, Julio San, et al.. (2024). Attosecond vortex pulse trains. Optica. 11(8). 1085–1085. 14 indexed citations

Plaja, Luis, et al.. (2024). Generation of high-order harmonic spatiotemporal optical vortices. HW5A.6–HW5A.6.

Brooks, Nathan J., Julio San Román, Luis Plaja, et al.. (2024). Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulses Enabled by an Azimuthal Phase and Polarization Grating. ACS Photonics. 12(1). 495–504. 1 indexed citations

Román, Julio San, et al.. (2024). Circularly Polarized High-Harmonic Beams Carrying Self-Torque or Time-Dependent Orbital Angular Momentum. ACS Photonics. 11(10). 4365–4373. 2 indexed citations

Pisanty, Emilio, Alexandre Dauphin, Luis Plaja, et al.. (2024). Topological phase transitions via attosecond x-ray absorption spectroscopy. Reports on Progress in Physics. 87(11). 117901–117901. 1 indexed citations

Hernández-García, Carlos, et al.. (2023). Attosecond Rabi Oscillations Revealed in EUV-Driven High Harmonic Spectroscopy. 1–1. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Siyang, et al.. (2023). Surprise in Highly Correlated Two-Electron System: Extended Secondary Plateau in X-ray High Harmonic Generation from Helium Due to Double Electron Recombination. 2. 1–1. 1 indexed citations

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Sánchez-Tejerina, Luis, et al.. (2023). All-optical nonlinear chiral ultrafast magnetization dynamics driven by circularly polarized magnetic fields. High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 11. 4 indexed citations

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Rego, Laura, Nathan J. Brooks, Quynh L. Nguyen, et al.. (2022). Necklace-structured high-harmonic generation for low-divergence, soft x-ray harmonic combs with tunable line spacing. Science Advances. 8(5). eabj7380–eabj7380. 28 indexed citations

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Plaja, Luis, et al.. (2021). Attosecond x-ray transient absorption spectroscopy in graphene. Physical Review Research. 3(1). 14 indexed citations

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Rego, Laura, Kevin M. Dorney, Nathan J. Brooks, et al.. (2019). Generation of extreme-ultraviolet beams with time-varying orbital angular momentum. Science. 364(6447). 240 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dorney, Kevin M., Laura Rego, Nathan J. Brooks, et al.. (2018). Controlling the polarization and vortex charge of attosecond high-harmonic beams via simultaneous spin–orbit momentum conservation. Nature Photonics. 13(2). 123–130. 137 indexed citations

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Huang, Pei-Chi, Carlos Hernández-García, Chih‐Hsuan Lu, et al.. (2018). Polarization control of isolated high-harmonic pulses. Nature Photonics. 12(6). 349–354. 143 indexed citations

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Hernández-García, Carlos, J. Vieira, J. T. Mendonça, et al.. (2017). Generation and Applications of Extreme-Ultraviolet Vortices. Photonics. 4(2). 28–28. 49 indexed citations

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Rego, Laura, Julio San Román, Antonio Picón, Luis Plaja, & Carlos Hernández-García. (2016). Nonperturbative Twist in the Generation of Extreme-Ultraviolet Vortex Beams. Physical Review Letters. 117(16). 163202–163202. 104 indexed citations

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Plaja, Luis, Ricardo Torres, & A. Zaïr. (2013). Attosecond physics: attosecond measurements and control of physical systems. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 7 indexed citations

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Pérez-Hernández, J. A., L. Roso, A. Zaïr, & Luis Plaja. (2011). Valley in the efficiency of the high-order harmonic yield at ultra-high laser intensities. Optics Express. 19(20). 19430–19430. 6 indexed citations

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Picó, Antonio, J. Mompart, Javier R. Vázquez de Aldana, et al.. (2010). Photoionization with orbital angular momentum beams. Optics Express. 18(4). 3660–3660. 99 indexed citations

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