Mario Montes‐Usategui

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 939 citations indexed

About

Mario Montes‐Usategui is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mario Montes‐Usategui has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 939 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 25 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mario Montes‐Usategui's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (24 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (16 papers) and Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies (7 papers). Mario Montes‐Usategui is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (24 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (16 papers) and Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies (7 papers). Mario Montes‐Usategui collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Croatia and United Kingdom. Mario Montes‐Usategui's co-authors include Ignacio Juvells Prades, Artur Carnicer, Arnau Farré, Estela Martı́n-Badosa, Jordi Andilla, Frederic Català-Castro, Juan Campos, Nancy R. Forde, Santiago Vallmitjana and Gerhard A. Blab and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Optics Letters and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Mario Montes‐Usategui

36 papers receiving 895 citations

Hit Papers

Vulnerability to chosen-cyphertext attacks of optical enc... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Vulnerability to chosen-cyphertext attacks of optical encryption schemes based on double random phase keys
    2005 511 citations Artur Carnicer, Mario Montes‐Usategui et al. Optics Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mario Montes‐Usategui Spain 11 525 463 278 185 141 39 939
Ignacio Juvells Prades Spain 15 682 1.3× 538 1.2× 310 1.1× 211 1.1× 322 2.3× 87 1.2k
Sudheesh K. Rajput Japan 20 974 1.9× 374 0.8× 109 0.4× 232 1.3× 242 1.7× 42 1.2k
Néstor Bolognini Argentina 16 870 1.7× 417 0.9× 141 0.5× 246 1.3× 380 2.7× 117 1.2k
Myrian Tebaldi Argentina 17 938 1.8× 417 0.9× 110 0.4× 272 1.5× 384 2.7× 102 1.2k
Hone‐Ene Hwang Taiwan 13 540 1.0× 273 0.6× 79 0.3× 135 0.7× 115 0.8× 32 752
Xueju Shen China 14 629 1.2× 190 0.4× 37 0.1× 211 1.1× 115 0.8× 67 759
John Fredy Barrera Colombia 24 1.5k 2.8× 639 1.4× 72 0.3× 474 2.6× 593 4.2× 103 1.8k
Emrah Bostan Switzerland 12 204 0.4× 187 0.4× 135 0.5× 33 0.2× 80 0.6× 32 534
Hengzheng Wei China 5 1.0k 1.9× 235 0.5× 25 0.1× 345 1.9× 132 0.9× 9 1.1k
Yann Frauel Mexico 14 1.1k 2.0× 896 1.9× 94 0.3× 152 0.8× 836 5.9× 42 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Mario Montes‐Usategui

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mario Montes‐Usategui

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mario Montes‐Usategui

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

All Works

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Martı́n-Badosa, Estela, et al.. (2024). Parallel illumination for depletion microscopy through acousto-optic spatial light modulation. Journal of the European Optical Society Rapid Publications. 20(2). 30–30.
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Martı́n-Badosa, Estela, et al.. (2021). Artifact-free holographic light shaping through moving acousto-optic holograms. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 21261–21261. 6 indexed citations
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Català-Castro, Frederic, et al.. (2017). Extending calibration-free force measurements to optically-trapped rod-shaped samples. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 42960–42960. 15 indexed citations
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Català-Castro, Frederic, et al.. (2016). Optical tweezers for force measurements and rheological studies on biological samples. 1–3. 1 indexed citations
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Farré, Arnau, Javier Selva, Gustavo Egea, et al.. (2014). Artificially-induced organelles are optimal targets for optical trapping experiments in living cells. Biomedical Optics Express. 5(7). 1993–1993. 8 indexed citations
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Farré, Arnau, et al.. (2014). A force measurement instrument for optical tweezers based on the detection of light momentum changes. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9164. 916412–916412. 1 indexed citations
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Farré, Arnau, et al.. (2012). Optimized back-focal-plane interferometry directly measures forces of optically trapped particles. Optics Express. 20(11). 12270–12270. 64 indexed citations
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Farré, Arnau, et al.. (2011). Optical trapping: A review of essential concepts. Optica Pura y Aplicada. 44(3). 527–551. 14 indexed citations
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Martı́n-Badosa, Estela, et al.. (2011). Adding functionalities to precomputed holograms with random mask multiplexing in holographic optical tweezers. Applied Optics. 50(10). 1417–1417. 8 indexed citations
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Farré, Arnau, et al.. (2010). Holographic optical manipulation of motor-driven membranous structures in living NG-108 cells. Optical Engineering. 49(8). 1–1. 3 indexed citations
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Farré, Arnau & Mario Montes‐Usategui. (2010). A force detection technique for single-beam optical traps based on direct measurement of light momentum changes. Optics Express. 18(11). 11955–11955. 50 indexed citations
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Farré, Arnau, et al.. (2009). Holographic optical manipulation of motor-driven subcellular structures. JTuB33–JTuB33.
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Montes‐Usategui, Mario, et al.. (2006). Fast generation of holographic optical tweezers by random mask encoding of Fourier components. Optics Express. 14(6). 2101–2101. 55 indexed citations
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Carnicer, Artur, et al.. (2005). Vulnerability to chosen-cyphertext attacks of optical encryption schemes based on double random phase keys. Optics Letters. 30(13). 1644–1644. 511 indexed citations breakdown →
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Montes‐Usategui, Mario, et al.. (2004). Reduction of the effect of aberrations in a joint-transform correlator. Applied Optics. 43(4). 841–841. 2 indexed citations
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Tudela, Raúl, et al.. (2002). Target modelization and filter generation for 3D pattern recognition by optical correlation. 3. 1018–1021. 1 indexed citations
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Montes‐Usategui, Mario, et al.. (2001). <title>Influence of the aberrations of optical Fourier-transform systems in a joint transform correlator</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4435. 42–49. 1 indexed citations
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Montes‐Usategui, Mario, et al.. (1996). <title>Correlator self-calibration method</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2752. 132–143.
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Bosch, Salvador, et al.. (1996). Design of correlation filters invariant to degradations characterizable by an optical transfer function. Optics Communications. 129(5-6). 337–343. 3 indexed citations
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Montes‐Usategui, Mario, Juan Campos, Ignacio Juvells Prades, & Santiago Vallmitjana. (1994). Sidelobe elimination for generalized synthetic discriminant functions by a two-filter correlation and subsequent postprocessing of the intensity distributions. Applied Optics. 33(14). 3050–3050. 3 indexed citations

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