Neil Sinclair

6.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
86 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Neil Sinclair is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Neil Sinclair has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 47 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 25 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Neil Sinclair's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (37 papers), Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics (32 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (28 papers). Neil Sinclair is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (37 papers), Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics (32 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (28 papers). Neil Sinclair collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Neil Sinclair's co-authors include Marko Lončar, Yaowen Hu, Amirhassan Shams‐Ansari, Di Zhu, Wolfgang Tittel, Linbo Shao, Mian Zhang, Daniel Oblak, Mengjie Yu and Erhan Sağlamyürek and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Neil Sinclair

83 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

2021 867 citations Di Zhu, Linbo Shao et al. profile →
Broadband waveguide quantum memory for entangled photons

2011 418 citations Erhan Sağlamyürek, Neil Sinclair et al. Nature profile →
High-efficiency and broadband on-chip electro-optic frequency comb generators

2022 145 citations Yaowen Hu, Mengjie Yu et al. Nature Photonics profile →
Entanglement of nanophotonic quantum memory nodes in a telecom network

2024 127 citations Can M. Knaut, Aziza Suleymanzade et al. Nature profile →
Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate

2025 23 citations Yaowen Hu, Di Zhu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Neil Sinclair United States	28	2.9k	2.0k	1.0k	263	261	86	3.7k
Raman Kashyap Canada	42	3.4k 1.2×	5.6k 2.8×	329 0.3×	907 3.4×	479 1.8×	401	7.0k
Nicolas K. Fontaine United States	43	2.7k 0.9×	6.4k 3.1×	409 0.4×	672 2.6×	38 0.1×	406	7.2k
Sergey A. Babin Russia	41	4.4k 1.5×	4.1k 2.1×	620 0.6×	1.1k 4.0×	85 0.3×	252	6.0k
Kevin Birnbaum United States	15	2.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	386 1.5×	43 0.2×	51	2.7k
Robert R. Thomson United Kingdom	32	2.5k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	122 0.1×	920 3.5×	429 1.6×	170	4.2k
Periklis Petropoulos United Kingdom	44	4.0k 1.4×	6.6k 3.3×	308 0.3×	309 1.2×	183 0.7×	459	7.1k
Simon Gross Australia	30	1.5k 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	139 0.1×	589 2.2×	215 0.8×	158	2.8k
Jean Pierre von der Weid Brazil	24	984 0.3×	1.4k 0.7×	388 0.4×	220 0.8×	143 0.5×	212	2.2k
Zhaohui Li China	29	1.6k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	136 0.1×	719 2.7×	58 0.2×	177	2.9k
Christian Reimer Canada	23	3.0k 1.1×	2.8k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	188 0.7×	145 0.6×	68	3.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Haas, Michael, et al.. (2026). Universal dynamics and microwave control of programmable resonant electro-optic frequency combs. Nature Physics.

Xin, C. J., Amirhassan Shams‐Ansari, Boris Desiatov, et al.. (2025). Wavelength-accurate and wafer-scale process for nonlinear frequency mixers in thin-film lithium niobate. Communications Physics. 8(1). 7 indexed citations

Knaut, Can M., Aziza Suleymanzade, Yan-Cheng Wei, et al.. (2024). Entanglement of nanophotonic quantum memory nodes in a telecom network. Nature. 629(8012). 573–578. 127 indexed citations breakdown →

Sinclair, Neil, Joshua A. Slater, Daniel Oblak, et al.. (2024). Optical investigations of coherence and relaxation dynamics of a thulium-doped yttrium gallium garnet crystal at sub-kelvin temperatures for optical quantum memory. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3). 35202–35202. 2 indexed citations

Chung, Joaquín, Gregory S. Kanter, Cristián Peña, et al.. (2024). Orchestration of Entanglement Distribution over a Q-LAN using the IEQNET Controller. M3Z.4–M3Z.4. 2 indexed citations

Renaud, Dylan, Daniel Assumpção, Graham Joe, et al.. (2023). Sub-1 Volt and high-bandwidth visible to near-infrared electro-optic modulators. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1496–1496. 74 indexed citations

Shao, Linbo, et al.. (2022). Resonant Acousto-optic Modulator using Thin-film Lithium Niobate on Sapphire. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. SM4O.5–SM4O.5. 2 indexed citations

Chung, Joaquín, Gregory S. Kanter, Nikolai Lauk, et al.. (2022). Design and Implementation of the Illinois Express Quantum Metropolitan Area Network. IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering. 3. 1–20. 25 indexed citations

Shams‐Ansari, Amirhassan, Guanhao Huang, Lingyan He, et al.. (2022). Reduced material loss in thin-film lithium niobate waveguides. APL Photonics. 7(8). 93 indexed citations

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Cortes, Cristian L., Nikolai Lauk, Michael J. Davis, et al.. (2022). Sample-Efficient Adaptive Calibration of Quantum Networks Using Bayesian Optimization. Physical Review Applied. 17(3). 8 indexed citations

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Hu, Yaowen, Mengjie Yu, Neil Sinclair, et al.. (2022). High-efficiency and broadband on-chip electro-optic frequency comb generators. Nature Photonics. 16(10). 679–685. 145 indexed citations breakdown →

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Renaud, Dylan, Cleaven Chia, Neil Sinclair, et al.. (2021). Telecommunication-wavelength two-dimensional photonic crystal cavities in a thin single-crystal diamond membrane. arXiv (Cornell University). 8 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Neil, et al.. (2018). Memory-assisted quantum key distribution resilient against multiple-excitation effects. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 7 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Neil, Sandeep K. Goyal, G. H. Aguilar, et al.. (2017). Entanglement between more than two hundred macroscopic atomic ensembles in a solid. Nature Communications. 8(1). 906–906. 17 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Neil, Daniel Oblak, Charles W. Thiel, R. L. Cone, & Wolfgang Tittel. (2017). Properties of a Rare-Earth-Ion-Doped Waveguide at Sub-Kelvin Temperatures for Quantum Signal Processing. Physical Review Letters. 118(10). 100504–100504. 32 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Neil, David Harle, Ian Glover, & Robert Atkinson. (2012). A kernel methods approach to reducing handover occurrences within LTE. University of Huddersfield Repository (University of Huddersfield). 1–8. 10 indexed citations

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Sağlamyürek, Erhan, Neil Sinclair, Jeongwan Jin, et al.. (2012). Conditional Detection of Pure Quantum States of Light after Storage in a Tm-Doped Waveguide. Physical Review Letters. 108(8). 83602–83602. 36 indexed citations

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Ghose, Shohini, Neil Sinclair, Shantanu Debnath, Pranaw Rungta, & R. Stock. (2009). Tripartite Entanglement versus Tripartite Nonlocality in Three-Qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-Class States. Physical Review Letters. 102(25). 250404–250404. 71 indexed citations

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Lišková, Petra, Stephen J. Tuft, Rhian Gwilliam, et al.. (2007). Novel mutations in theZEB1 gene identified in Czech and British patients with posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy. Human Mutation. 28(6). 638–638. 64 indexed citations

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Booth, Adam J., et al.. (2004). Does retinal screening improve the visual outcome of diabetic maculopathy treatment. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 45(13). 4073–4073. 1 indexed citations

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