Mark A. Foster

10.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
203 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Mark A. Foster is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark A. Foster has authored 203 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 102 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mark A. Foster's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (113 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (80 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (66 papers). Mark A. Foster is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (113 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (80 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (66 papers). Mark A. Foster collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Mark A. Foster's co-authors include Alexander L. Gaeta, Michal Lipson, Amy C. Turner, Reza Salem, Amy C. Turner-Foster, Jacob S. Levy, Jay E. Sharping, Bradley S. Schmidt, David F. Geraghty and Yoshitomo Okawachi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Mark A. Foster

188 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

CMOS-compatible multiple-wavelength oscillator for on-chip optical interconnects

2009 680 citations Mark A. Foster, Amy C. Turner-Foster et al. profile →
Broad-band optical parametric gain on a silicon photonic chip

2006 654 citations Mark A. Foster, Amy C. Turner et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A novel combinatorial approach to evaluate the ignition and combustion performance of aluminum powders alloyed with other elements 2025 ·Combustion and Flame ·(unknown), Michael C. Flickinger, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Mark A. Foster, John Slotwinski, Timothy P. Weihs	0
2	Simultaneous hyperspectral imaging and pyrometry for multi-phase temperature profiling of energetic composite reactions 2025 ·Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Mark A. Foster, Michael R. Zachariah	0
3	Machine learning-assisted analysis of ignition and combustion properties in as-milled and annealed Al-Zr composite powders 2025 ·Combustion and Flame ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Mark A. Foster, Timothy P. Weihs	0
4	LiDAR Light Scattering Augmentation (LISA): Physics-based Simulation of Adverse Weather Conditions for 3D Object Detection 2025 ·(unknown), (unknown), Andrew B. Cooper, (unknown), Mark A. Foster	8
5	Development of a dual-spectroscopic system to rapidly measure diisopropyl methyl phosphonate (DIMP) decomposition and temperature in a reactive powder environment 2024 ·Review of Scientific Instruments ·(unknown), (unknown), Mark A. Foster, Timothy P. Weihs	1
6	Time Lens Photon Doppler Velocimetry (TL-PDV) for extreme measurements 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Christopher S. DiMarco, (unknown), P.-H. Chu, K.T. Ramesh, ‪Zhehui Wang, Mark A. Foster	2
7	Comparative autofluorescence analysis of silicon nitride and tantalum pentoxide waveguides at 532 nm 2024 ·Optics Express ·David Irvine, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Mark A. Foster, Amy C. Foster	0
8	Experimental demonstration of time lens photon Doppler velocimetry (TL-PDV) 2023 ·(unknown), Christopher S. DiMarco, (unknown), (unknown), K.T. Ramesh, ‪Zhehui Wang, Mark A. Foster	1
9	Compressed sensing in photonics: tutorial 2022 ·Journal of the Optical Society of America B ·(unknown), Trac D. Tran, Mark A. Foster	9
10	Niobium-tantalum oxide as a material platform for linear and nonlinear integrated photonics 2022 ·Optics Express ·Neil MacFarlane, (unknown), Mark A. Foster, (unknown), Amy C. Foster	7
11	Time-lens photon Doppler velocimetry (TL-PDV) 2021 ·Review of Scientific Instruments ·P.-H. Chu, (unknown), Mark A. Foster, ‪Zhehui Wang	6
12	Kilohertz frame rate snapshot hyperspectral imaging of metal reactive materials 2020 ·Applied Optics ·(unknown), Elliot R. Wainwright, (unknown), Timothy P. Weihs, Mark A. Foster	8
13	A minimally invasive lens-free computational microendoscope 2019 ·Science Advances ·Jaewook Shin, Dũng Trần, (unknown), Sang Chin, Trac D. Tran, Mark A. Foster	48
14	Optical coherence tomography using physical domain data compression to achieve MHz A-scan rates 2019 ·Optics Express ·(unknown), (unknown), Sang Chin, Trac D. Tran, Mark A. Foster	5
15	Widefield compressive multiphoton microscopy 2018 ·Optics Letters ·(unknown), Jaewook Shin, Dũng Trần, (unknown), Sang Chin, Trac D. Tran, Mark A. Foster	10
16	All-optical demultiplexing of Nyquist OTDM signal using a biorthogonal Nyquist gate 2017 ·Optics Express ·(unknown), Mark A. Foster	3
17	Independent simultaneous source acquisition and processing 2015 ·Geophysics ·Ray Abma, (unknown), Mark A. Foster, Imtiaz Ahmed, (unknown), Qie Zhang, (unknown), (unknown)	86
18	All-optical spatial multicasting using cascaded silicon photonic devices 2009 ·European Conference on Optical Communication ·Aleksandr Biberman, Noam Ophir, Benjamin G. Lee, Amy C. Turner-Foster, Mark A. Foster, Nicolás Sherwood-Droz, Carl B. Poitras, Michal Lipson, Alexander L. Gaeta, Keren Bergman	2
19	Bit-Error-Rate Characterization of Silicon Four-Wave-Mixing Wavelength Converters at 10 and 40 Gb/s 2008 ·Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·Benjamin G. Lee, Aleksandr Biberman, Mark A. Foster, Amy C. Turner, Michal Lipson, Alexander L. Gaeta, Keren Bergman	5
20	Ultra-low Power Frequency Conversion in Silicon Micro-ring Resonators 2007 ·Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·Amy C. Turner, Mark A. Foster, Alexander L. Gaeta, Michal Lipson	2

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