P. C. Becker

5.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
68 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

P. C. Becker is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, P. C. Becker has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 38 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 17 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in P. C. Becker's work include Optical Network Technologies (23 papers), Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (19 papers) and Solid State Laser Technologies (17 papers). P. C. Becker is often cited by papers focused on Optical Network Technologies (23 papers), Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (19 papers) and Solid State Laser Technologies (17 papers). P. C. Becker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. P. C. Becker's co-authors include C. V. Shank, J.R. Simpson, R. L. Fork, C. H. Brito Cruz, N.A. Olsson, H. L. Fragnito, E. Desurvire, J.-Y. Bigot, J. E. Cunningham and J. E. Henry and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

P. C. Becker

66 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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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.

Compression of optical pulses to six femtoseconds by using cubic phase compensation

1987 610 citations R. L. Fork, C. H. Brito Cruz et al. Optics Letters profile →
Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Fundamentals and Technology

1999 474 citations P. C. Becker, N.A. Olsson et al. profile →
High-gain erbium-doped traveling-wave fiber amplifier

1987 402 citations E. Desurvire, J.R. Simpson et al. Optics Letters profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
P. C. Becker United States	30	2.6k	2.3k	1.0k	389	281	68	4.1k
Eiichi Hanamura Japan	37	4.0k 1.6×	1.7k 0.7×	2.1k 2.1×	175 0.4×	304 1.1×	179	5.7k
P N Butcher United Kingdom	31	2.9k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	237 0.6×	149 0.5×	154	4.0k
D. L. Hùber United States	30	1.6k 0.6×	621 0.3×	1.0k 1.0×	204 0.5×	303 1.1×	191	3.3k
Ralph H. Page United States	30	2.4k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	292 0.8×	831 3.0×	79	3.9k
D. Hulín France	33	3.0k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	988 1.0×	49 0.1×	284 1.0×	105	4.2k
B. I. Greene United States	32	2.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	535 0.5×	52 0.1×	436 1.6×	60	3.1k
R. H. Silsbee United States	31	2.9k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 1.6×	303 0.8×	187 0.7×	76	4.5k
John Lambe United States	30	2.7k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	105 0.3×	177 0.6×	65	4.6k
Alexander L. Burin United States	33	1.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	716 0.7×	133 0.3×	101 0.4×	141	3.5k
M. D. Sturge United States	40	4.7k 1.8×	3.1k 1.3×	2.7k 2.7×	555 1.4×	323 1.1×	117	6.7k

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Desurvire, E., J.R. Simpson, & P. C. Becker. (1997). High-gain erbium-doped traveling-wave fiber amplifier. Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications. RP3–RP3. 1 indexed citations

Becker, P. C., et al.. (1994). Response time measurement of a mid-infra-red photodetector. Electronics Letters. 30(13). 1093–1094. 7 indexed citations

Grubb, S.G., G. Nykolak, P. C. Becker, K.M. Dzurko, & David Welch. (1994). Master Oscillator Power Amplifier Diode Laser Pump Sources for Pr3+-doped Fiber Amplifers. Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications. WC3–WC3. 3 indexed citations

Grubb, S.G., T. Erdoğan, V. Mizrahi, et al.. (1994). 1.3 μm Cascaded Raman Amplifier in Germanosilicate Fibers. Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications. PD3–PD3. 19 indexed citations

Shmulovich, J., Y. H. Wong, G. Nykolak, et al.. (1993). 15dB Net Gain Demonstration in Er3+ Glass Waveguide Amplifier on Silicon. PD18–PD18. 4 indexed citations

Becker, P. C., et al.. (1993). Two-color synchronously mode-locked femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser. Optics Letters. 18(8). 631–631. 79 indexed citations

Nykolak, G., P. C. Becker, J. Shmulovich, et al.. (1993). Concentration-dependent /sup 4/I/sub 13/2/ lifetimes in Er/sup 3+/-doped fibers and Er/sup 3+/-doped planar waveguides. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 5(9). 1014–1016. 67 indexed citations

Becker, P. C., D. Lee, Margaret Johnson, et al.. (1992). Femtosecond dynamics of resonantly excited room-temperature excitons in II-VI CdZnTe/ZnTe quantum wells. Physical Review Letters. 68(12). 1876–1879. 22 indexed citations

Becker, P. C., Margaret Johnson, A. Prosser, et al.. (1991). Femtosecond Dynamics of Resonantly Excited Room Temperature Excitons in II‒VI CdZnTe/ZnTe Quantum Wells. Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. 1 indexed citations

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Cruz, C. H. Brito, A. Prosser, & P. C. Becker. (1991). Generation of tunable femtosecond pulses in the 690–750 nm wavelength region. Optics Communications. 86(1). 65–69. 2 indexed citations

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Simpson, J.R., L. F. Mollenauer, N.A. Olsson, et al.. (1991). Performance of a distributed erbium-doped dispersion-shifted fiber amplifier. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 9(2). 228–233. 26 indexed citations

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Zyskind, J.L., D. J. DiGiovanni, J.W. Sulhoff, P. C. Becker, & C. H. Brito Cruz. (1990). High Performance Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier Pumped at 1.48 μm and 0.97 μm. Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications. PDP6–PDP6. 13 indexed citations

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Simpson, J.R., et al.. (1990). A Distributed Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier. PD19–PD19. 11 indexed citations

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Andrekson, Peter A., N.A. Olsson, J.R. Simpson, et al.. (1990). Observation of Multi-Wavelength Soliton Collisions in Fiber Amplifier Based Systems. Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications. TuA6–TuA6. 2 indexed citations

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Andrekson, Peter A., N.A. Olsson, J.R. Simpson, et al.. (1990). Soliton collision interaction force dependence on wavelength separation in fibre amplifier based systems. Electronics Letters. 26(18). 1499–1501. 18 indexed citations

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Becker, P. C., et al.. (1989). Generation of tunable 9 femtosecond optical pulses in the near infrared. Applied Physics Letters. 54(5). 411–412. 31 indexed citations

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Becker, P. C., et al.. (1989). Excitation profiles of resonance electronic Raman scattering inErPO4crystals. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 40(2). 1288–1296. 15 indexed citations

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Fork, R. L., C. H. Brito Cruz, P. C. Becker, & C. V. Shank. (1987). Compression of optical pulses to six femtoseconds by using cubic phase compensation. Optics Letters. 12(7). 483–483. 610 indexed citations breakdown →

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Becker, P. C., et al.. (1985). The role of g electrons in the optical spectroscopy of lanthanide ions in crystals. Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics. 18(33). L1063–L1066. 35 indexed citations

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Becker, P. C., George V. Shalimoff, John G. Conway, et al.. (1984). Crystal field analysis of Tm3+ and Yb3+ in YPO4 and LuPO4. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 81(7). 2872–2878. 56 indexed citations

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