Nail Akhmediev

34.8k total citations · 13 hit papers
369 papers, 27.0k citations indexed

About

Nail Akhmediev is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nail Akhmediev has authored 369 papers receiving a total of 27.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 282 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 277 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 80 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nail Akhmediev's work include Nonlinear Photonic Systems (271 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (262 papers) and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (186 papers). Nail Akhmediev is often cited by papers focused on Nonlinear Photonic Systems (271 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (262 papers) and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (186 papers). Nail Akhmediev collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Spain and France. Nail Akhmediev's co-authors include Adrian Ankiewicz, J. M. Soto‐Crespo, Philippe Grelu, Amin Chabchoub, Norbert Hoffmann, David Jacob Kedziora, V. I. Korneev, M. Taki, John M. Dudley and V. V. Konotop and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Nail Akhmediev

359 papers receiving 25.8k citations

Hit Papers

Dissipative solitons for mode... 1986 2026 1999 2012 2012 2010 2008 1997 2011 400 800 1.2k
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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. Dissipative solitons for mode-locked lasers
    2012 1.3k citations Nail Akhmediev et al. profile →
  2. The Peregrine soliton in nonlinear fibre optics
    2010 1.1k citations Nail Akhmediev et al. profile →
  3. Waves that appear from nowhere and disappear without a trace
    2008 1.0k citations Nail Akhmediev, Adrian Ankiewicz et al. profile →
  4. Solitons : nonlinear pulses and beams
    1997 1.0k citations Nail Akhmediev, Adrian Ankiewicz Chapman & Hall eBooks profile →
  5. Rogue Wave Observation in a Water Wave Tank
    2011 943 citations Nail Akhmediev et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  6. Rogue waves and rational solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation
    2009 838 citations Nail Akhmediev, Adrian Ankiewicz et al. Physical Review E profile →
  7. Modulation instability and periodic solutions of the nonlinear Schr�dinger equation
    1986 668 citations Nail Akhmediev, V. I. Korneev profile →
  8. Cherenkov radiation emitted by solitons in optical fibers
    1995 588 citations Nail Akhmediev et al. profile →
  9. Matter rogue waves
    2009 582 citations Nail Akhmediev et al. profile →
  10. Extreme waves that appear from nowhere: On the nature of rogue waves
    2009 492 citations Nail Akhmediev, J. M. Soto‐Crespo et al. profile →
  11. Rogue waves and rational solutions of the Hirota equation
    2010 422 citations Adrian Ankiewicz, J. M. Soto‐Crespo et al. Physical Review E profile →
  12. Dissipative Rogue Waves Generated by Chaotic Pulse Bunching in a Mode-Locked Laser
    2012 346 citations J. M. Soto‐Crespo, Nail Akhmediev et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  13. Observation of Kuznetsov-Ma soliton dynamics in optical fibre
    2012 338 citations Nail Akhmediev 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
Nail Akhmediev Australia 80 19.6k 19.5k 6.8k 2.7k 2.0k 369 27.0k
Mark J. Ablowitz United States 68 21.1k 1.1× 8.8k 0.5× 1.3k 0.2× 1000 0.4× 5.0k 2.5× 310 24.6k
Adrian Ankiewicz Australia 47 8.2k 0.4× 7.1k 0.4× 2.5k 0.4× 746 0.3× 1.1k 0.5× 182 10.9k
Alan C. Newell United States 54 9.3k 0.5× 4.9k 0.3× 914 0.1× 2.6k 1.0× 1.9k 0.9× 179 15.0k
Anjan Biswas United States 101 34.7k 1.8× 19.0k 1.0× 4.6k 0.7× 717 0.3× 2.1k 1.1× 1.1k 36.7k
Boris A. Malomed Israel 83 23.7k 1.2× 28.6k 1.5× 3.5k 0.5× 4.4k 1.6× 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 33.4k
J. M. Soto‐Crespo Spain 52 6.5k 0.3× 8.5k 0.4× 3.7k 0.5× 1.6k 0.6× 484 0.2× 157 10.7k
В. Е. Захаров Russia 67 10.8k 0.6× 5.4k 0.3× 1.3k 0.2× 688 0.3× 3.2k 1.6× 302 18.5k
D. J. Kaup United States 40 9.1k 0.5× 4.9k 0.3× 935 0.1× 461 0.2× 2.0k 1.0× 198 11.4k
Martin D. Kruskal United States 35 8.8k 0.4× 4.2k 0.2× 680 0.1× 686 0.3× 2.1k 1.0× 73 14.1k
Harvey Segur United States 33 9.8k 0.5× 2.9k 0.1× 389 0.1× 463 0.2× 2.4k 1.2× 70 11.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Soto‐Crespo, J. M. & Nail Akhmediev. (2021). Role of the quintic nonlinear refractive term in the stability of dissipative solitons of the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 38(12). 3541–3541. 2 indexed citations
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Akhmediev, Nail & J. M. Soto‐Crespo. (2021). Q-switching bifurcation dynamics of passively mode-locked lasers. Physical review. E. 104(2). 24221–24221. 1 indexed citations
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Akhmediev, Nail, et al.. (2021). Complex Korteweg–de Vries equation: A deeper theory of shallow water waves. Physical review. E. 103(2). 22216–22216. 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Chong & Nail Akhmediev. (2019). Super-regular breathers in nonlinear systems with self-steepening effect. Physical review. E. 100(6). 62201–62201. 28 indexed citations
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Hasan, Md. Imran, Nail Akhmediev, Arnaud Mussot, & Wonkeun Chang. (2019). Midinfrared Pulse Generation by Pumping in the Normal-Dispersion Regime of a Gas-Filled Hollow-Core Fiber. Physical Review Applied. 12(1). 11 indexed citations
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Bandelow, Uwe, Adrian Ankiewicz, Shalva Amiranashvili, & Nail Akhmediev. (2018). Sasa-Satsuma hierarchy of integrable evolution equations. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 28(5). 53108–53108. 9 indexed citations
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Hasan, Md. Imran, Nail Akhmediev, & Wonkeun Chang. (2018). Empirical Formulae for Dispersion and Effective Mode Area in Hollow-Core Antiresonant Fibers. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 36(18). 4060–4065. 37 indexed citations
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Ankiewicz, Adrian, et al.. (2018). Rogue waves in higher-order systems: Lagrangian approach. Physica Scripta. 94(3). 35203–35203. 2 indexed citations
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Ankiewicz, Adrian, et al.. (2017). Multi-rogue waves and triangular numbers. Studies in Applied Mathematics. 22 indexed citations
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Kedziora, David Jacob, Adrian Ankiewicz, Amdad Chowdury, & Nail Akhmediev. (2015). Integrable equations of the infinite nonlinear Schrödinger equation hierarchy with time variable coefficients. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 25(10). 103114–103114. 44 indexed citations
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Bandelow, Uwe & Nail Akhmediev. (2012). Sasa-Satsuma equation: Soliton on a background and its limiting cases. Physical Review E. 86(2). 26606–26606. 89 indexed citations
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Cundiff, Steven T., B. C. Collings, Nail Akhmediev, et al.. (2002). Observation of polarization-locked vector solitions in optical fiber. Physical Review Letters. 82. 2 indexed citations
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Akhmediev, Nail & Adrian Ankiewicz. (1999). Partially Coherent Solitons on a Finite Background. Physical Review Letters. 82(13). 2661–2664. 204 indexed citations
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Soto‐Crespo, J. M. & Nail Akhmediev. (1998). Phase-locking and periodic evolution of solitons in passively mode-locked fiber lasers with slow saturable absorber. Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications. NThE.9–NThE.9. 2 indexed citations
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Akhmediev, Nail & Adrian Ankiewicz. (1997). Solitons : nonlinear pulses and beams. Chapman & Hall eBooks. 1023 indexed citations breakdown →
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Akhmediev, Nail, et al.. (1988). N-modulation signals in a single-mode optical fiber with allowance for nonlinearity. 94. 159–170. 6 indexed citations
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Aktsipetrov, O. A., et al.. (1985). Multilayer Langmuir films for optoelectronics Nonlinear-optics method for studying them. Technical Physics Letters. 11. 249. 2 indexed citations
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Akhmediev, Nail, et al.. (1982). Optical dielectric waveguide with nonlinear permittivity.. Optics and Spectroscopy. 53(5). 540–542. 6 indexed citations
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Akhmediev, Nail, et al.. (1982). Dielectric optical waveguide with nonlinear susceptibility. Asymmetric refractive-index profile. Optics and Spectroscopy. 53(6). 654–658. 12 indexed citations
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Akhmediev, Nail. (1980). Role of spatial dispersion in light absorption by excitons. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics. 52. 773. 2 indexed citations

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