Prashanta Kharel

2.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
36 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Prashanta Kharel is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Prashanta Kharel has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Prashanta Kharel's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (27 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (19 papers) and Mechanical and Optical Resonators (14 papers). Prashanta Kharel is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (27 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (19 papers) and Mechanical and Optical Resonators (14 papers). Prashanta Kharel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Prashanta Kharel's co-authors include Mian Zhang, Lingyan He, Marko Lončar, Christian Reimer, Peter T. Rakich, Kevin Luke, Di Zhu, Cheng Wang, Yiwen Chu and Robert Schoelkopf and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Prashanta Kharel

32 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability
    2021 297 citations Mian Zhang, Cheng Wang et al. Optica profile →
  2. Breaking voltage–bandwidth limits in integrated lithium niobate modulators using micro-structured electrodes
    2021 284 citations Prashanta Kharel, Christian Reimer et al. Optica profile →
  3. Integrated femtosecond pulse generator on thin-film lithium niobate
    2022 158 citations Mengjie Yu, David R. Barton et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Prashanta Kharel
Amy C. Turner United States
Risheng Cheng United States
Raimund Ricken Germany
Jonathan Klamkin United States
Haig A. Atikian United States
V. Zwiller Netherlands
Arslan S. Raja Switzerland
Dmytro Kundys United Kingdom
Ming-Han Chou United States
Jacob Mower United States
Amy C. Turner United States
Prashanta Kharel
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Prashanta Kharel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Prashanta Kharel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Prashanta Kharel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Prashanta Kharel. Prashanta Kharel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Peng, Huanfa, Grigory Lihachev, Christoph Füllner, et al.. (2025). 320 GHz photonic-electronic analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) exploiting Kerr soliton microcombs. Light Science & Applications. 14(1). 241–241.
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Jin, Naijun, Yifan Liu, Charles A. McLemore, et al.. (2023). Wafer-level fabrication of Fabry-Pérot resonators with finesse exceeding one million. SW4L.6–SW4L.6. 2 indexed citations
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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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Yu, Mengjie, David R. Barton, Rebecca Cheng, et al.. (2022). Integrated femtosecond pulse generator on thin-film lithium niobate. Nature. 612(7939). 252–258. 158 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kharel, Prashanta, Yiwen Chu, D. Mason, et al.. (2022). Multimode Strong Coupling in Cavity Optomechanics. Physical Review Applied. 18(2). 15 indexed citations
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Jin, Naijun, Charles A. McLemore, David L. Mason, et al.. (2022). Micro-fabricated mirrors with finesse exceeding one million. Optica. 9(9). 965–965. 40 indexed citations
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Kharel, Prashanta, Christian Reimer, Kevin Luke, Lingyan He, & Mian Zhang. (2021). Breaking voltage–bandwidth limits in integrated lithium niobate modulators using micro-structured electrodes. Optica. 8(3). 357–357. 284 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Mian, Cheng Wang, Prashanta Kharel, Di Zhu, & Marko Lončar. (2021). Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability. Optica. 8(5). 652–652. 297 indexed citations breakdown →
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Luke, Kevin, Prashanta Kharel, Christian Reimer, et al.. (2020). Wafer-scale low-loss lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits. Optics Express. 28(17). 24452–24452. 140 indexed citations
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Kharel, Prashanta, et al.. (2020). Demonstration of High Quantum Cooperativities and Optomechanical Strong Coupling within a Bulk Crystalline Cavity Optomechanical System. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 86. FTh3C.6–FTh3C.6. 1 indexed citations
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Luke, Kevin, Prashanta Kharel, Christian Reimer, et al.. (2020). Wafer-scale low-loss lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits. 3. 1–2. 5 indexed citations
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Kharel, Prashanta, Glen I. Harris, Eric A. Kittlaus, et al.. (2019). High-frequency cavity optomechanics using bulk acoustic phonons. Science Advances. 5(4). eaav0582–eaav0582. 41 indexed citations
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Chu, Yiwen, et al.. (2018). Creation and control of multi-phonon Fock states in a bulk acoustic-wave resonator. Nature. 563(7733). 666–670. 211 indexed citations
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Renninger, William H., Prashanta Kharel, Ryan O. Behunin, & Peter T. Rakich. (2018). Bulk crystalline optomechanics. Nature Physics. 14(6). 601–607. 60 indexed citations
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Chu, Yiwen, Prashanta Kharel, William H. Renninger, et al.. (2017). Quantum acoustics with superconducting qubits. Science. 358(6360). 199–202. 8 indexed citations
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Behunin, Ryan O., Prashanta Kharel, William H. Renninger, & Peter T. Rakich. (2016). Engineering dissipation with phononic spectral hole burning. Nature Materials. 16(3). 315–321. 6 indexed citations
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Renninger, William H., Heedeuk Shin, Ryan O. Behunin, et al.. (2016). Forward Brillouin scattering in hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers. New Journal of Physics. 18(2). 25008–25008. 17 indexed citations
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Najafi, Faraz, Jacob Mower, Nicholas C. Harris, et al.. (2015). On-chip detection of non-classical light by scalable integration of single-photon detectors. Nature Communications. 6(1). 5873–5873. 209 indexed citations
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Hu, Xiao‐Long, Tian Zhong, Franco N. C. Wong, et al.. (2015). Nonlocal cancellation of multi-frequency-channel dispersion. Physical Review A. 91(1). 1 indexed citations
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Najafi, Faraz, Xiaolong Hu, Francesco Bellei, et al.. (2013). Membrane-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors. 79. QF1A.6–QF1A.6. 1 indexed citations

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