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

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.

Two-Dimensional Photonic Band-Gap Defect Mode Laser

1999 1.8k citations Oskar Painter, A. Scherer et al. Science profile →
Laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator into its quantum ground state

2011 1.6k citations Thiago P. Mayer Alegre, Amir H. Safavi‐Naeini et al. Nature profile →
Electromagnetically induced transparency and slow light with optomechanics

2011 1.1k citations Amir H. Safavi‐Naeini, Thiago P. Mayer Alegre et al. Nature profile →
Optomechanical crystals

2009 763 citations Oskar Painter et al. Nature profile →
Nonlinear optical phenomena in silicon waveguides: modeling and applications

2007 667 citations Q. Lin, Oskar Painter et al. Optics Express profile →
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 →
A picogram- and nanometre-scale photonic-crystal optomechanical cavity

2009 493 citations Oskar Painter et al. Nature profile →
A high-resolution microchip optomechanical accelerometer

2012 471 citations Oskar Painter et al. profile →
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 →
Chemically etched ultrahigh-Q wedge-resonator on a silicon chip

2012 447 citations Oskar Painter et al. profile →
Phonon Laser Action in a Tunable Two-Level System

2010 408 citations Oskar Painter et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Cavity opto-mechanics using an optically levitated nanosphere

2009 405 citations Dalziel J. Wilson, Oskar Painter et al. profile →
Squeezed light from a silicon micromechanical resonator

2013 404 citations Amir H. Safavi‐Naeini, Oskar Painter et al. Nature profile →
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 →
Superradiance for Atoms Trapped along a Photonic Crystal Waveguide

2015 364 citations Jonathan D. Hood, Su‐Peng Yu et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Atom–light interactions in photonic crystals

2014 322 citations Su‐Peng Yu, Jonathan D. Hood et al. Nature Communications profile →
Building a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer Using Concatenated Cat Codes

2022 172 citations Kyungjoo Noh, Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Preserving Phase Coherence and Linearity in Cat Qubits with Exponential Bit-Flip Suppression 2025 ·Physical Review X ·Harald Putterman, Kyungjoo Noh, Rishi N. Patel, G. A. Peairs, Gregory S. MacCabe, Menyoung Lee, Shahriar Aghaeimeibodi, Connor T. Hann, Ignace Jarrige, (unknown), He Yuan, (unknown), (unknown), Thomas Scaffidi, Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola, Joseph K. Iverson, Harry Levine, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Matthew H. Matheny, Oskar Painter	1
2	Improving the Lifetime of Aluminum-Based Superconducting Qubits through Atomic Layer Etching and Deposition 2025 ·ACS Nano ·Neha Mahuli, Joaquín Minguzzi, Jiansong Gao, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Matthew A. Hunt, L. J. Swenson, (unknown), Oskar Painter, Ignace Jarrige	0
3	Low-loss superconducting resonators fabricated from tantalum films grown at room temperature 2025 ·Communications Materials ·(unknown), David Perello, Cliff Chen, (unknown), Conan Weiland, Jiansong Gao, (unknown), Victoria Ly, Neha Mahuli, Noel D’Souza, (unknown), Shahriar Aghaeimeibodi, (unknown), Cherno Jaye, Abdul K. Rumaiz, Daniel A. Fischer, Matthew A. Hunt, Oskar Painter, Ignace Jarrige	4
4	Phonon engineering of atomic-scale defects in superconducting quantum circuits 2024 ·Science Advances ·Mo Chen, (unknown), Harald Putterman, Martin Schäfer, Oskar Painter	13
5	Microwave-optical entanglement from pulse-pumped electro-optomechanics 2024 ·Physical Review Applied ·Changchun Zhong, (unknown), Srujan Meesala, (unknown), David P. Lake, Oskar Painter, Liang Jiang	1
6	Deterministic generation of multidimensional photonic cluster states with a single quantum emitter 2024 ·Nature Physics ·Vinicius S. Ferreira, (unknown), (unknown), Hannes Pichler, Oskar Painter	23
7	A superconducting quantum simulator based on a photonic-bandgap metamaterial 2023 ·Science ·Xueyue Zhang, Eunjong Kim, Daniel K. Mark, Soonwon Choi, Oskar Painter	63
8	Quasi-2d Optomechanical Crystal Cavity for Quantum Optomechanics 2019 ·Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·Hengjiang Ren, Gregory S. MacCabe, Jie Luo, Hannes Pfeifer, Andrew J. Keller, Oskar Painter	1
9	Optomechanical Measurements of Ultra-Long-Lived Microwave Phonon Modes in a Phononic Bandgap Cavity 2018 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Gregory S. MacCabe, Hengjiang Ren, Jie Luo, Justin D. Cohen, Hengyun Zhou, (unknown), Oskar Painter	3
10	Al transmon qubits on silicon-on-insulator for quantum device integration 2017 ·Applied Physics Letters ·Andrew J. Keller, Paul B. Dieterle, Michael Fang, (unknown), J. M. Fink, Oskar Painter	19
11	Quantum electromechanics on silicon nitride nanomembranes 2016 ·Nature Communications ·J. M. Fink, Mahmoud Kalaee, Alessandro Pitanti, Richard A. Norte, (unknown), Marcelo Davanço, Kartik Srinivasan, Oskar Painter	47
12	Waveguide-Coupled Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors 2015 ·Andrew D. Beyer, Ryan M. Briggs, Francesco Marsili, Justin D. Cohen, Seán M. Meenehan, Oskar Painter, Matthew D. Shaw	6
13	Enhancement of mechanical Q-factors by optical trapping 2012 ·Jonathan D. Hood, Kai Ni, Richard A. Norte, Dalziel J. Wilson, Su‐Peng Yu, Andrew M. Jayich, Oskar Painter, H. J. Kimble	4
14	Enhanced Quantum Nonlinearities in a Two-Mode Optomechanical System 2012 ·Physical Review Letters ·Max Ludwig, Amir H. Safavi‐Naeini, Oskar Painter, Florian Marquardt	224
15	Optomechanical zipper cavity lasers: theoretical analysis of tuning range and stability 2010 ·Optics Express ·Thiago P. Mayer Alegre, Raviv Perahia, Oskar Painter	16
16	“Pick and place” Positioning of diamond nanocrystals on microcavities 2008 ·Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·Paul E. Barclay, Oskar Painter, C. Santori, Kai‐Mei C. Fu, Raymond G. Beausoleil	0
17	First-principle derivation of gain in high-index-contrast waveguides 2008 ·Optics Express ·Jacob T. Robinson, Kyle Preston, Oskar Painter, Michal Lipson	175
18	A proposal for highly tunable optical parametric oscillation in silicon micro-resonators 2008 ·Optics Express ·Q. Lin, Thomas J. Johnson, Raviv Perahia, (unknown), Oskar Painter	54
19	Linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of a strongly coupled microdisk–quantum dot system 2007 ·Nature ·Kartik Srinivasan, Oskar Painter	313
20	Photonic crystal lasers and waveguides 2000 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering ·A. Scherer, Marco Loncar, Oskar Painter, A. Husain, Jelena Vučković, Theodor Doll	1

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