Melanie McLaren

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Melanie McLaren is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Melanie McLaren has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Melanie McLaren's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (21 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (13 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (6 papers). Melanie McLaren is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (21 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (13 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (6 papers). Melanie McLaren collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and Canada. Melanie McLaren's co-authors include Andrew Forbes, Angela Dudley, Thomas Konrad, Filippus S. Roux, Miles J. Padgett, Bienvenu Ndagano, Carmelo Rosales‐Guzmán, Yingwen Zhang, Robert W. Boyd and Jonathan Leach and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Physics and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Melanie McLaren

24 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Creation and detection of optical modes with spatial ligh... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400
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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. Creation and detection of optical modes with spatial light modulators
    2016 478 citations Andrew Forbes, Angela Dudley et al. Advances in Optics and Photonics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Melanie McLaren South Africa 15 1.7k 638 570 446 177 24 1.8k
Jacquiline Romero United Kingdom 19 1.9k 1.2× 883 1.4× 578 1.0× 295 0.7× 246 1.4× 36 2.1k
R. P. Singh India 24 1.4k 0.9× 377 0.6× 676 1.2× 296 0.7× 156 0.9× 110 1.6k
B. Jack United Kingdom 12 1.4k 0.9× 473 0.7× 451 0.8× 215 0.5× 279 1.6× 16 1.6k
Filippus S. Roux South Africa 27 2.5k 1.5× 756 1.2× 967 1.7× 568 1.3× 310 1.8× 100 2.7k
Bienvenu Ndagano South Africa 14 1.2k 0.7× 333 0.5× 509 0.9× 328 0.7× 179 1.0× 22 1.4k
Isaac Nape South Africa 19 1.1k 0.7× 395 0.6× 410 0.7× 390 0.9× 152 0.9× 55 1.4k
Alois Mair Austria 5 2.6k 1.6× 1.2k 1.8× 811 1.4× 404 0.9× 280 1.6× 7 2.7k
Vincenzo D’Ambrosio Italy 19 1.6k 0.9× 797 1.2× 476 0.8× 267 0.6× 261 1.5× 33 1.7k
Filippo Cardano Italy 20 1.7k 1.1× 515 0.8× 566 1.0× 321 0.7× 358 2.0× 37 2.0k
Frédéric Bouchard Canada 20 1.4k 0.9× 685 1.1× 441 0.8× 327 0.7× 231 1.3× 50 1.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McLaren, Melanie. (2018). ‘Evidence-based policy-making’: a practitioner view. Accounting and Business Research. 48(5). 609–611. 1 indexed citations
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Ndagano, Bienvenu, Benjamin Perez-García, Filippus S. Roux, et al.. (2017). Characterizing quantum channels with non-separable states of classical light. Nature Physics. 13(4). 397–402. 225 indexed citations
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McLaren, Melanie & Andrew Forbes. (2017). Digital spiral-slit for bi-photon imaging. Journal of Optics. 19(4). 44006–44006. 5 indexed citations
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Ndagano, Bienvenu, Hend Sroor, Melanie McLaren, Carmelo Rosales‐Guzmán, & Andrew Forbes. (2016). Beam quality measure for vector beams. Optics Letters. 41(15). 3407–3407. 98 indexed citations
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Brüning, Robert, Bienvenu Ndagano, Melanie McLaren, et al.. (2016). Data transmission with twisted light through a free-space to fiber optical communication link. Journal of Optics. 18(3). 03LT01–03LT01. 21 indexed citations
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Forbes, Andrew, Angela Dudley, & Melanie McLaren. (2016). Creation and detection of optical modes with spatial light modulators. Advances in Optics and Photonics. 8(2). 200–200. 478 indexed citations breakdown →
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Perez-García, Benjamin, et al.. (2015). Quantum computation with classical light: The Deutsch Algorithm. Physics Letters A. 379(28-29). 1675–1680. 35 indexed citations
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McLaren, Melanie, Thomas Konrad, & Andrew Forbes. (2015). Measuring the nonseparability of vector vortex beams. Physical Review A. 92(2). 139 indexed citations
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Brüning, Robert, Yingwen Zhang, Melanie McLaren, Michael Duparré, & Andrew Forbes. (2015). Overlap relation between free-space Laguerre Gaussian modes and step-index fiber modes. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 32(9). 1678–1678. 36 indexed citations
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McLaren, Melanie, et al.. (2014). Self-healing of quantum entanglement after an obstruction. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3248–3248. 124 indexed citations
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Dudley, Angela, Mhlambululi Mafu, Sandeep K. Goyal, et al.. (2014). Encoding mutually unbiased bases in orbital angular momentum for quantum key distribution. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8999. 89991I–89991I. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yingwen, Melanie McLaren, Filippus S. Roux, & Andrew Forbes. (2014). Simulating quantum state engineering in spontaneous parametric down-conversion using classical light. Optics Express. 22(14). 17039–17039. 10 indexed citations
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Trichili, Abderrahmen, Yaseera Ismail, Filippus S. Roux, et al.. (2014). Detection of Bessel beams with digital axicons. Optics Express. 22(14). 17553–17553. 30 indexed citations
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McLaren, Melanie, et al.. (2013). Optical trapping with Super-Gaussian beams. JT2A.34–JT2A.34. 3 indexed citations
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McLaren, Melanie, Jacquiline Romero, Miles J. Padgett, Filippus S. Roux, & Andrew Forbes. (2013). Two-photon optics of Bessel-Gaussian modes. Physical Review A. 88(3). 40 indexed citations
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Mafu, Mhlambululi, Angela Dudley, Sandeep K. Goyal, et al.. (2013). Higher-dimensional orbital-angular-momentum-based quantum key distribution with mutually unbiased bases. Physical Review A. 88(3). 244 indexed citations
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Roux, Filippus S., et al.. (2013). Orbital-angular-momentum entanglement in turbulence. Physical Review A. 88(1). 91 indexed citations
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Roux, Filippus S., et al.. (2013). The decay of the orbital angular momentum entanglement in turbulence. FW4D.3–FW4D.3. 4 indexed citations
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McLaren, Melanie, Megan Agnew, Jonathan Leach, et al.. (2012). Entangled Bessel-Gaussian beams. Optics Express. 20(21). 23589–23589. 99 indexed citations
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Agnew, Megan, et al.. (2011). Tomography of the quantum state of photons entangled in high dimensions. Physical Review A. 84(6). 110 indexed citations

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