Mohammad Belal

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 962 citations indexed

About

Mohammad Belal is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Mohammad Belal has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 962 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 13 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Mohammad Belal's work include Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (21 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (20 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (9 papers). Mohammad Belal is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (21 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (20 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (9 papers). Mohammad Belal collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Greece and China. Mohammad Belal's co-authors include T.P. Newson, Ali Masoudi, Trevor P. Newson, Gilberto Brambilla, Yongmin Jung, Michael Clare, David J. Richardson, A.H. Hartog, Zhang Song and Timothy Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Scientific Reports and Optics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Mohammad Belal

39 papers receiving 904 citations

Hit Papers

A distributed optical fibre dynamic strain sensor based o... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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. A distributed optical fibre dynamic strain sensor based on phase-OTDR
    2013 387 citations Ali Masoudi, Mohammad Belal et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mohammad Belal United Kingdom 16 775 404 124 92 86 43 962
Gaëtan Calbris France 9 200 0.3× 102 0.3× 212 1.7× 121 1.3× 101 1.2× 18 535
Etienne Rochat Switzerland 12 433 0.6× 179 0.4× 33 0.3× 40 0.4× 18 0.2× 61 509
Kazuya Shiraishi Japan 18 604 0.8× 214 0.5× 308 2.5× 194 2.1× 60 0.7× 111 1.0k
Yuanhong Yang China 12 590 0.8× 292 0.7× 11 0.1× 150 1.6× 31 0.4× 84 763
Cédric Blanchard France 12 144 0.2× 382 0.9× 11 0.1× 135 1.5× 43 0.5× 42 608
Tsuneo Horiguchi Japan 16 1.2k 1.5× 671 1.7× 23 0.2× 41 0.4× 34 0.4× 57 1.2k
Han Cheng Seat France 13 310 0.4× 148 0.4× 36 0.3× 59 0.6× 30 0.3× 54 443
Nicola Tedeschi Italy 15 172 0.2× 259 0.6× 19 0.2× 197 2.1× 87 1.0× 41 520
Marian Marciniak Poland 12 462 0.6× 229 0.6× 27 0.2× 201 2.2× 57 0.7× 134 675

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mohammad Belal

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mohammad Belal

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Harmon, Nicholas, et al.. (2025). Distributed Acoustic Sensing Along a Shallow Water Energy Cable. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 50(3). 1772–1781. 3 indexed citations
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Panda, Swati, et al.. (2025). Triboelectric energy harvesting from rice paper/PDMS under extreme humidity environments. Materials Letters. 406. 139971–139971.
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Spingys, Carl, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, & Mohammad Belal. (2024). Optical fibre sensing of turbulent-frequency motions in the oceanic environment. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 20276–20276. 3 indexed citations
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Spingys, Carl, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, & Mohammad Belal. (2024). Distributed Optical Fibre Sensing for High Space‐Time Resolution Ocean Velocity Observations: A Case Study From a Macrotidal Channel. Earth and Space Science. 11(5). 6 indexed citations
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Ettabib, Mohamed A., Lin Xu, Adonis Bogris, et al.. (2015). Broadband telecom to mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a dispersion-engineered silicon germanium waveguide. Optics Letters. 40(17). 4118–4118. 44 indexed citations
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Belal, Mohammad, Lin Xu, Péter Horák, et al.. (2015). Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in suspended core tellurite microstructured optical fibers. Optics Letters. 40(10). 2237–2237. 38 indexed citations
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Ettabib, Mohamed A., Lin Xu, Adonis Bogris, et al.. (2015). Telecom to Mid-infrared Supercontinuum Generation in a Silicon Germanium Waveguide. Optical Fiber Communication Conference. Tu2C.5–Tu2C.5.
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Masoudi, Ali, Mohammad Belal, & Trevor P. Newson. (2014). Distributed optical fibre audible frequency sensor. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9157. 91573T–91573T. 20 indexed citations
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Masoudi, Ali, Mohammad Belal, & Trevor P. Newson. (2013). Distributed dynamic large strain optical fiber sensor based on the detection of spontaneous Brillouin scattering. Optics Letters. 38(17). 3312–3312. 45 indexed citations
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May-Smith, T.C., A. Dhar, A. S. Webb, et al.. (2013). Erbium-doped multi-element fiber amplifiers for space-division multiplexing operations. Optics Letters. 38(4). 582–582. 17 indexed citations
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Belal, Mohammad, et al.. (2012). A compact optical microfiber based PZT phase modulator. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton).
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Zhang, Xueliang, et al.. (2012). Compact optical microfiber phase modulator. Optics Letters. 37(3). 320–320. 18 indexed citations
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Hermida‐Merino, Daniel, Mohammad Belal, Barnaby W. Greenland, et al.. (2012). Electrospun supramolecular polymer fibres. European Polymer Journal. 48(7). 1249–1255. 21 indexed citations
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Belal, Mohammad & T.P. Newson. (2011). A 5 cm spatial resolution temperature compensated distributed strain sensor evaluated using a temperature controlled strain rig. Optics Letters. 36(24). 4728–4728. 10 indexed citations
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Belal, Mohammad & T.P. Newson. (2011). Experimental Examination of the Variation of the Spontaneous Brillouin Power and Frequency Coefficients Under the Combined Influence of Temperature and Strain. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 30(8). 1250–1255. 25 indexed citations
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Brambilla, Gilberto, Mohammad Belal, Yongmin Jung, et al.. (2011). Optical fibre microwire sensors. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7753. 77530C–77530C. 1 indexed citations
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Belal, Mohammad, et al.. (2010). An interferometric current sensor based on optical fiber micro wires. Optics Express. 18(19). 19951–19951. 32 indexed citations
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Belal, Mohammad, Zhang Song, Yongmin Jung, Gilberto Brambilla, & T.P. Newson. (2010). Optical fiber microwire current sensor. Optics Letters. 35(18). 3045–3045. 55 indexed citations

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