Philippe Réfrégier

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Philippe Réfrégier is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Philippe Réfrégier has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 44 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 36 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Philippe Réfrégier's work include Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (34 papers), Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies (24 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (20 papers). Philippe Réfrégier is often cited by papers focused on Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry (34 papers), Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies (24 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (20 papers). Philippe Réfrégier collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Finland. Philippe Réfrégier's co-authors include Bahram Javidi, François Goudail, Antoine Roueff, Jérôme Morio, Olivier Germain, Muriel Roche, Frédéric Galland, Vincent Laude, Pascale Dubois-Fernandez and Ari T. Friberg and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Philippe Réfrégier

116 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Optical image encryption based on input plane and Fourier... 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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. Optical image encryption based on input plane and Fourier plane random encoding
    1995 2.1k citations Philippe Réfrégier, Bahram Javidi Optics Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Philippe Réfrégier France 21 2.4k 1.1k 1.0k 623 571 124 3.7k
Naveen K. Nishchal India 30 2.2k 0.9× 915 0.8× 574 0.6× 503 0.8× 380 0.7× 151 2.8k
Guohai Situ China 37 3.1k 1.3× 2.3k 2.1× 1.6k 1.6× 896 1.4× 1.2k 2.0× 143 6.0k
Joseph Shamir Israel 31 869 0.4× 1.6k 1.5× 774 0.8× 333 0.5× 902 1.6× 210 3.5k
Osamu Matoba Japan 37 2.7k 1.1× 3.4k 3.1× 2.6k 2.6× 296 0.5× 735 1.3× 297 5.0k
Thierry Blu Hong Kong 25 1.8k 0.7× 354 0.3× 341 0.3× 201 0.3× 717 1.3× 133 4.0k
Kostadin Dabov Finland 8 6.6k 2.8× 280 0.3× 3.9k 3.9× 209 0.3× 1.2k 2.1× 12 7.9k
David Mendlovic Israel 36 2.8k 1.2× 2.2k 2.0× 1.0k 1.0× 186 0.3× 1.0k 1.8× 212 5.8k
Ulugbek S. Kamilov United States 24 744 0.3× 460 0.4× 200 0.2× 179 0.3× 793 1.4× 104 2.2k
Henri H. Arsenault Canada 21 983 0.4× 601 0.5× 997 1.0× 128 0.2× 553 1.0× 136 1.9k
Levent Onural Türkiye 23 1.5k 0.6× 1.1k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 62 0.1× 209 0.4× 114 2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philippe Réfrégier

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Réfrégier, Philippe, Tero Setälä, & Ari T. Friberg. (2012). Maximal polarization order of random optical beams: reversible and irreversible polarization variations. Optics Letters. 37(18). 3750–3750. 9 indexed citations
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Réfrégier, Philippe, Muriel Roche, & Sophie Brasselet. (2011). Precision analysis in polarization-resolved second harmonic generation microscopy. Optics Letters. 36(11). 2149–2149. 20 indexed citations
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Bertaux, Nicolas, et al.. (2008). Adaptive log-quadratic approach for target detection in nonhomogeneous backgrounds perturbed with speckle fluctuations. Optics Letters. 33(23). 2821–2821. 1 indexed citations
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Roueff, Antoine & Philippe Réfrégier. (2008). Separation technique of a mixing of two uncorrelated and perfectly polarized lights with different coherence and polarization properties. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 25(4). 838–838. 5 indexed citations
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Réfrégier, Philippe & Alfredo Luis. (2008). Irreversible effects of random unitary transformations on coherence properties of partially polarized electromagnetic fields. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 25(11). 2749–2749. 16 indexed citations
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Galland, Frédéric, et al.. (2008). Stochastic complexity integral image based technique for fast video tracking. Optics Letters. 33(21). 2521–2521. 1 indexed citations
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Réfrégier, Philippe. (2008). Mean-square coherent light. Optics Letters. 33(14). 1551–1551. 8 indexed citations
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Réfrégier, Philippe & Antoine Roueff. (2007). Visibility interference fringes optimization on a single beam in the case of partially polarized and partially coherent light. Optics Letters. 32(11). 1366–1366. 10 indexed citations
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Savy, Laurent, et al.. (2007). Application of the Deflection Criterion to Classification of Radar SAR Images. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 29(9). 1668–1672. 4 indexed citations
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Réfrégier, Philippe, Muriel Roche, & François Goudail. (2006). Cramer-Rao lower bound for the estimation of the degree of polarization in active coherent imagery at low photon levels. Optics Letters. 31(24). 3565–3565. 7 indexed citations
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Réfrégier, Philippe & François Goudail. (2006). Kullback relative entropy and characterization of partially polarized optical waves. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 23(3). 671–671. 26 indexed citations
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Réfrégier, Philippe & Antoine Roueff. (2006). Coherence polarization filtering and relation with intrinsic degrees of coherence. Optics Letters. 31(9). 1175–1175. 18 indexed citations
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Réfrégier, Philippe & Jérôme Morio. (2006). Shannon entropy of partially polarized and partially coherent light with Gaussian fluctuations. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 23(12). 3036–3036. 66 indexed citations
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Réfrégier, Philippe. (2005). Polarization degree of optical waves with non-Gaussian probability density functions: Kullback relative entropy-based approach. Optics Letters. 30(10). 1090–1090. 12 indexed citations
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Bertaux, Nicolas, Yann Frauel, Philippe Réfrégier, & Bahram Javidi. (2004). Speckle removal using a maximum-likelihood technique with isoline gray-level regularization. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 21(12). 2283–2283. 17 indexed citations
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Réfrégier, Philippe, et al.. (2004). Photon-noise effect on detection in coherent active images. Optics Letters. 29(2). 162–162. 5 indexed citations
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Réfrégier, Philippe, François Goudail, Pierre Chavel, & Ari T. Friberg. (2004). Entropy of partially polarized light and application to statistical processing techniques. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 21(11). 2124–2124. 23 indexed citations
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Goudail, François & Philippe Réfrégier. (2002). Target segmentation in active polarimetric images by use of statistical active contours. Applied Optics. 41(5). 874–874. 12 indexed citations
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Javidi, Bahram & Philippe Réfrégier. (1997). Optoelectronic Information Processing: 2-5 June 1997, Barcelona, Spain.
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Réfrégier, Philippe, et al.. (1997). New image processing techniques and applications : algorithms, methods, and components II : 18-19 June 1997, Munich, FRG. SPIE eBooks.

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