Murray Sargent

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
64 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Murray Sargent is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Murray Sargent has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 9 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Murray Sargent's work include Quantum optics and atomic interactions (32 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (20 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (17 papers). Murray Sargent is often cited by papers focused on Quantum optics and atomic interactions (32 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (20 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (17 papers). Murray Sargent collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Pakistan. Murray Sargent's co-authors include Pierre Meystre, Weng W. Chow, S. W. Koch, David A. Holm, Sami T. Hendow, Marlan O. Scully, P. E. Toschek, Paul Horwitz, M. Suhail Zubairy and Robert W. Boyd and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Murray Sargent

63 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Elements of Quantum Optics 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 1994 100 200 300 400 500
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. Elements of Quantum Optics
    1990 572 citations Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →
  2. Semiconductor-Laser Physics
    1994 389 citations Weng W. Chow, S. W. Koch et al. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Murray Sargent United States 23 2.5k 838 702 256 208 64 2.8k
L. Allen United Kingdom 19 2.2k 0.9× 663 0.8× 502 0.7× 438 1.7× 257 1.2× 77 2.7k
Yuri V. Rostovtsev United States 35 4.2k 1.7× 608 0.7× 963 1.4× 240 0.9× 211 1.0× 205 4.6k
R. DeVoe United States 25 2.3k 0.9× 413 0.5× 754 1.1× 456 1.8× 250 1.2× 47 2.7k
S. Swain United Kingdom 29 3.0k 1.2× 231 0.3× 1.7k 2.4× 100 0.4× 347 1.7× 133 3.5k
Andreas Hemmerich Germany 38 4.0k 1.6× 512 0.6× 1.0k 1.4× 446 1.7× 350 1.7× 100 4.1k
D. D. Coon United States 22 1.5k 0.6× 917 1.1× 210 0.3× 222 0.9× 393 1.9× 103 2.2k
L. Deng United States 29 4.4k 1.8× 365 0.4× 1.1k 1.6× 204 0.8× 716 3.4× 104 4.5k
Martin Weitz Germany 36 4.1k 1.6× 399 0.5× 711 1.0× 449 1.8× 621 3.0× 116 4.4k
Jamal T. Manassah United States 26 2.1k 0.9× 420 0.5× 640 0.9× 83 0.3× 249 1.2× 161 2.4k
Horacio M. Pastawski Argentina 28 2.3k 0.9× 571 0.7× 554 0.8× 305 1.2× 930 4.5× 105 2.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sargent, Murray, Weng W. Chow, & S. W. Koch. (1992). Side-mode gain in semiconductor lasers. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 9(8). 1288–1288. 9 indexed citations
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Meystre, Pierre & Murray Sargent. (1991). Elements of Quantum Optics. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 226 indexed citations
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Chow, Weng W., S. W. Koch, Murray Sargent, & C. Ell. (1991). Many-body effects on the linewidth enhancement factor in quantum well lasers. Applied Physics Letters. 58(4). 328–330. 17 indexed citations
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Meystre, Pierre & Murray Sargent. (1990). Elements of Quantum Optics. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 572 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sargent, Murray, et al.. (1990). Effects of injected atomic coherence on one-photon single-mode interactions. Physical Review A. 42(3). 1532–1543. 2 indexed citations
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Haug, Hartmut, et al.. (1988). Semiconductor laser theory with many-body effects. Annual Meeting Optical Society of America. MJ5–MJ5. 2 indexed citations
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Sargent, Murray. (1988). Coherent dips revisited. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 5(5). 987–987. 2 indexed citations
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Sargent, Murray, et al.. (1988). Effects of a squeezed vacuum on probe absorption spectra. Optics Communications. 67(5). 373–377. 34 indexed citations
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Sargent, Murray, et al.. (1987). Nondegenerate phase conjugation with no pump spatial holes. Optics Communications. 64(3). 307–310. 1 indexed citations
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Holm, David A., et al.. (1986). Solution of the quantum coupled mode equations. Optics Communications. 60(5). 328–332. 2 indexed citations
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Sargent, Murray, David A. Holm, & M. Suhail Zubairy. (1985). Quantum theory of multiwave mixing. I. General formalism. Physical review. A, General physics. 31(5). 3112–3123. 73 indexed citations
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Stenholm, Stig, David A. Holm, & Murray Sargent. (1985). Quantum theory of multiwave mixing. II. Operator approach. Physical review. A, General physics. 31(5). 3124–3131. 33 indexed citations
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Sargent, Murray, et al.. (1984). Two-photon laser and optical-bistability sidemode instabilities. Optics Communications. 49(6). 447–452. 15 indexed citations
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Sargent, Murray, et al.. (1984). Effects of Gaussian-beam averaging on phase conjugation and beat-frequency spectroscopy. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 1(1). 95–95. 10 indexed citations
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Hendow, Sami T., et al.. (1982). Effects of transverse variations and propagation in beat-frequency spectroscopy (A). Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 72. 1734. 1 indexed citations
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Hendow, Sami T. & Murray Sargent. (1982). Effects of detuning on single-mode laser instabilities. Optics Communications. 43(1). 59–63. 28 indexed citations
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Sargent, Murray & P. E. Toschek. (1976). Unidirectional saturation spectroscopy, II. Applied Physics A. 11(2). 107–120. 41 indexed citations
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Jacobs, S. F., Murray Sargent, J. F. Scott, & Marlan O. Scully. (1975). Laser applications to optics and spectroscopy. 23 indexed citations
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Sargent, Murray. (1974). Laser physics / Murray Sargent, Marlan O. Scully, Willis E. Lamb, Jr. 1974(1974). 1–99. 1 indexed citations
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Sargent, Murray. (1973). Mode locking in quantum optics. Applied Physics A. 1(3). 133–139. 6 indexed citations

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