Oskar Painter

29.6k total citations · 17 hit papers
194 papers, 21.3k citations indexed

About

Oskar Painter is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Oskar Painter has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 21.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 173 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 163 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 22 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Oskar Painter's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (145 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (89 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (69 papers). Oskar Painter is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (145 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (89 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (69 papers). Oskar Painter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Austria. Oskar Painter's co-authors include Kerry J. Vahala, Amir H. Safavi‐Naeini, Jasper Fuk‐Woo Chan, Kartik Srinivasan, Jeff T. Hill, Matt Eichenfield, Thiago P. Mayer Alegre, A. Scherer, Darrick E. Chang and Q. Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Oskar Painter

180 papers receiving 20.3k citations

Hit Papers

Two-Dimensional Photonic ... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 2011 2011 2009 2007 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Two-Dimensional Photonic Band-Gap Defect Mode Laser
    1999 1.8k citations Oskar Painter, A. Scherer et al. Science profile →
  2. Laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator into its quantum ground state
    2011 1.6k citations Amir H. Safavi‐Naeini, Oskar Painter et al. Nature profile →
  3. Electromagnetically induced transparency and slow light with optomechanics
    2011 1.1k citations Amir H. Safavi‐Naeini, Q. Lin et al. Nature profile →
  4. Optomechanical crystals
    2009 763 citations Oskar Painter et al. Nature profile →
  5. Nonlinear optical phenomena in silicon waveguides: modeling and applications
    2007 667 citations Q. Lin, Oskar Painter et al. Optics Express profile →
  6. Observation of Critical Coupling in a Fiber Taper to a Silica-Microsphere Whispering-Gallery Mode System
    2000 661 citations Oskar Painter et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  7. A picogram- and nanometre-scale photonic-crystal optomechanical cavity
    2009 493 citations Oskar Painter et al. Nature profile →
  8. A high-resolution microchip optomechanical accelerometer
    2012 471 citations Oskar Painter et al. profile →
  9. Ideality in a Fiber-Taper-Coupled Microresonator System for Application to Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics
    2003 466 citations Oskar Painter et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  10. Chemically etched ultrahigh-Q wedge-resonator on a silicon chip
    2012 447 citations Oskar Painter et al. profile →
  11. Phonon Laser Action in a Tunable Two-Level System
    2010 408 citations Oskar Painter et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  12. Cavity opto-mechanics using an optically levitated nanosphere
    2009 405 citations Dalziel J. Wilson, Oskar Painter et al. profile →
  13. Squeezed light from a silicon micromechanical resonator
    2013 404 citations Amir H. Safavi‐Naeini, Oskar Painter et al. Nature profile →
  14. Generalized non-reciprocity in an optomechanical circuit via synthetic magnetism and reservoir engineering
    2017 366 citations Jie Luo, Matthew H. Matheny et al. Nature Physics profile →
  15. Superradiance for Atoms Trapped along a Photonic Crystal Waveguide
    2015 364 citations Jonathan D. Hood, Su‐Peng Yu et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  16. Atom–light interactions in photonic crystals
    2014 322 citations Su‐Peng Yu, Jonathan D. Hood et al. Nature Communications profile →
  17. Building a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer Using Concatenated Cat Codes
    2022 172 citations Kyungjoo Noh, Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Oskar Painter 19.2k 15.4k 3.8k 3.2k 1.3k 194 21.3k
M. Kamp 11.2k 0.6× 8.2k 0.5× 3.7k 1.0× 3.1k 1.0× 609 0.5× 525 15.3k
Jelena Vučković 14.5k 0.8× 11.9k 0.8× 5.0k 1.3× 4.4k 1.4× 1.3k 1.0× 357 18.8k
Michal Lipson 24.3k 1.3× 29.6k 1.9× 3.0k 0.8× 4.5k 1.4× 1.0k 0.8× 533 34.3k
Masaya Notomi 11.8k 0.6× 11.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.3× 4.0k 1.3× 1.8k 1.4× 351 14.2k
A. Forchel 24.5k 1.3× 17.0k 1.1× 3.8k 1.0× 5.2k 1.6× 812 0.6× 1.1k 29.3k
I. Sagnes 12.3k 0.6× 7.8k 0.5× 3.0k 0.8× 3.2k 1.0× 324 0.3× 549 15.3k
Benjamin J. Eggleton 18.2k 1.0× 23.6k 1.5× 1.4k 0.4× 2.8k 0.9× 475 0.4× 812 27.4k
David A. B. Miller 18.9k 1.0× 21.4k 1.4× 3.3k 0.9× 4.3k 1.3× 634 0.5× 549 29.9k
Jonathan P. Dowling 10.7k 0.6× 3.8k 0.2× 6.7k 1.8× 1.4k 0.4× 433 0.3× 250 12.7k
Sajeev John 16.8k 0.9× 11.8k 0.8× 1.1k 0.3× 5.6k 1.8× 2.8k 2.2× 216 20.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oskar Painter

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Perello, David, Cliff Chen, Conan Weiland, et al.. (2025). Low-loss superconducting resonators fabricated from tantalum films grown at room temperature. Communications Materials. 6(1). 4 indexed citations
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Putterman, Harald, Kyungjoo Noh, Rishi N. Patel, et al.. (2025). Preserving Phase Coherence and Linearity in Cat Qubits with Exponential Bit-Flip Suppression. Physical Review X. 15(1). 1 indexed citations
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Mahuli, Neha, Joaquín Minguzzi, Jiansong Gao, et al.. (2025). Improving the Lifetime of Aluminum-Based Superconducting Qubits through Atomic Layer Etching and Deposition. ACS Nano. 19(48). 41136–41146.
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Chen, Mo, et al.. (2024). Phonon engineering of atomic-scale defects in superconducting quantum circuits. Science Advances. 10(37). eado6240–eado6240. 13 indexed citations
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Ferreira, Vinicius S., et al.. (2024). Deterministic generation of multidimensional photonic cluster states with a single quantum emitter. Nature Physics. 20(5). 865–870. 23 indexed citations
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Zhong, Changchun, et al.. (2024). Microwave-optical entanglement from pulse-pumped electro-optomechanics. Physical Review Applied. 22(6). 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xueyue, Eunjong Kim, Daniel K. Mark, Soonwon Choi, & Oskar Painter. (2023). A superconducting quantum simulator based on a photonic-bandgap metamaterial. Science. 379(6629). 278–283. 63 indexed citations
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Meesala, Srujan, et al.. (2023). Design of an ultra-low mode volume piezo-optomechanical quantum transducer. Optics Express. 31(14). 22914–22914. 10 indexed citations
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Ren, Hengjiang, Gregory S. MacCabe, Jie Luo, et al.. (2019). Quasi-2d Optomechanical Crystal Cavity for Quantum Optomechanics. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1 indexed citations
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MacCabe, Gregory S., Hengjiang Ren, Jie Luo, et al.. (2018). Optomechanical Measurements of Ultra-Long-Lived Microwave Phonon Modes in a Phononic Bandgap Cavity. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2018. 3 indexed citations
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Keller, Andrew J., et al.. (2017). Al transmon qubits on silicon-on-insulator for quantum device integration. Applied Physics Letters. 111(4). 19 indexed citations
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Fink, J. M., Mahmoud Kalaee, Alessandro Pitanti, et al.. (2016). Quantum electromechanics on silicon nitride nanomembranes. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12396–12396. 47 indexed citations
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Beyer, Andrew D., Ryan M. Briggs, Francesco Marsili, et al.. (2015). Waveguide-Coupled Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors. STh1I.2–STh1I.2. 6 indexed citations
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Hood, Jonathan D., Kai Ni, Richard A. Norte, et al.. (2012). Enhancement of mechanical Q-factors by optical trapping. 43. 4 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Max, Amir H. Safavi‐Naeini, Oskar Painter, & Florian Marquardt. (2012). Enhanced Quantum Nonlinearities in a Two-Mode Optomechanical System. Physical Review Letters. 109(6). 63601–63601. 224 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Jessie, R. V. Shenoi, Sanjay Krishna, & Oskar Painter. (2010). Design of plasmonic photonic crystal resonant cavities for polarization sensitive infrared photodetectors. Optics Express. 18(4). 3672–3672. 45 indexed citations
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Barclay, Paul E., Oskar Painter, C. Santori, Kai‐Mei C. Fu, & Raymond G. Beausoleil. (2008). “Pick and place” Positioning of diamond nanocrystals on microcavities. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1–2.
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Lin, Q., Oskar Painter, & Govind P. Agrawal. (2007). Nonlinear optical phenomena in silicon waveguides: modeling and applications. Optics Express. 15(25). 16604–16604. 667 indexed citations breakdown →
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Srinivasan, Kartik & Oskar Painter. (2007). Linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of a strongly coupled microdisk–quantum dot system. Nature. 450(7171). 862–865. 313 indexed citations
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Scherer, A., Marco Loncar, Oskar Painter, et al.. (2000). Photonic crystal lasers and waveguides. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering. 3944. 2–9. 1 indexed citations

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