Robert W. Boyd

48.0k total citations · 14 hit papers
767 papers, 32.5k citations indexed

About

Robert W. Boyd is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert W. Boyd has authored 767 papers receiving a total of 32.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 616 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 260 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 180 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Robert W. Boyd's work include Quantum optics and atomic interactions (192 papers), Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (186 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (155 papers). Robert W. Boyd is often cited by papers focused on Quantum optics and atomic interactions (192 papers), Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (186 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (155 papers). Robert W. Boyd collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Robert W. Boyd's co-authors include Israel De Leon, Daniel J. Gauthier, Ryan S. Bennink, Ebrahim Karimi, Miles J. Padgett, Matthew S. Bigelow, Sean J. Bentley, M. Zahirul Alam, Nick N. Lepeshkin and John E. Heebner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Robert W. Boyd

714 papers receiving 30.7k citations

Hit Papers

“Two-Photon” Coincidence Imaging with a Classical Source 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2016 2014 2005 2005 250 500 750
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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-Photon” Coincidence Imaging with a Classical Source
    2002 836 citations Robert W. Boyd et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Large optical nonlinearity of indium tin oxide in its epsilon-near-zero region
    2016 804 citations M. Zahirul Alam, Robert W. Boyd et al. Science profile →
  3. Generating optical orbital angular momentum at visible wavelengths using a plasmonic metasurface
    2014 649 citations Jeremy Upham, Robert W. Boyd et al. Light Science & Applications profile →
  4. Tunable All-Optical Delays via Brillouin Slow Light in an Optical Fiber
    2005 645 citations Robert W. Boyd, Alexander L. Gaeta et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  5. The Origin and Evolution of Cultures
    2005 604 citations Robert W. Boyd et al. profile →
  6. Superluminal and Slow Light Propagation in a Room-Temperature Solid
    2003 580 citations Robert W. Boyd et al. Science profile →
  7. Observation of Ultraslow Light Propagation in a Ruby Crystal at Room Temperature
    2003 492 citations Robert W. Boyd et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  8. Quantum Correlations in Optical Angle–Orbital Angular Momentum Variables
    2010 461 citations Anand K. Jha, Robert W. Boyd et al. Science profile →
  9. Colloquium: Understanding quantum weak values: Basics and applications
    2014 439 citations Robert W. Boyd et al. profile →
  10. Nonlinear optical effects in epsilon-near-zero media
    2019 378 citations Orad Reshef, M. Zahirul Alam et al. profile →
  11. High-dimensional intracity quantum cryptography with structured photons
    2017 366 citations Robert Fickler, Robert W. Boyd et al. Optica profile →
  12. Efficient separation of the orbital angular momentum eigenstates of light
    2013 347 citations Mohammad Mirhosseini, Robert W. Boyd et al. Nature Communications profile →
  13. Imaging with a small number of photons
    2015 345 citations Peter A. Morris, Reuben S. Aspden et al. Nature Communications profile →
  14. Observation of optical polarization Möbius strips
    2015 334 citations Peter Banzer, Robert W. Boyd et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert W. Boyd United States 93 24.7k 10.5k 8.1k 6.3k 4.6k 767 32.5k
Emil Wolf United States 57 21.0k 0.8× 8.5k 0.8× 10.9k 1.3× 3.8k 0.6× 2.0k 0.4× 277 31.2k
Marin Soljačić United States 91 24.5k 1.0× 19.9k 1.9× 11.1k 1.4× 4.3k 0.7× 9.7k 2.1× 405 42.7k
Demetri Psaltis United States 70 8.5k 0.3× 9.4k 0.9× 5.8k 0.7× 2.7k 0.4× 1.8k 0.4× 575 19.6k
Kishan Dholakia United Kingdom 80 19.9k 0.8× 5.2k 0.5× 15.5k 1.9× 1.1k 0.2× 2.9k 0.6× 468 27.6k
Steven G. Johnson United States 76 23.4k 0.9× 18.2k 1.7× 8.0k 1.0× 1.3k 0.2× 5.7k 1.2× 315 34.2k
Sajeev John Canada 58 16.8k 0.7× 11.8k 1.1× 5.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.2× 2.4k 0.5× 216 20.5k
Jian Wang China 67 15.4k 0.6× 11.7k 1.1× 5.7k 0.7× 2.1k 0.3× 3.7k 0.8× 837 21.8k
Marlan O. Scully United States 91 33.7k 1.4× 5.2k 0.5× 2.8k 0.3× 13.7k 2.2× 1.6k 0.3× 822 39.0k
Eli Yablonovitch United States 75 23.6k 1.0× 25.7k 2.5× 9.4k 1.2× 1.1k 0.2× 5.8k 1.3× 383 40.1k
Yaron Silberberg Israel 73 17.3k 0.7× 5.7k 0.5× 3.0k 0.4× 2.9k 0.5× 729 0.2× 322 23.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cardoso, António Silva, et al.. (2025). Description of single-photon orbital angular momentum conjugation with stimulated parametric down-conversion [Invited]. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 43(3). A37–A37.
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Sullivan, Brian, et al.. (2024). Hybrid architectures for terahertz molecular polaritonics. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4427–4427. 7 indexed citations
3.
Upham, Jeremy, et al.. (2024). Strong reverse saturation and fast-light in ruby. Optics Letters. 49(23). 6669–6669. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Runzhou, Kaiheng Zou, Xinzhou Su, et al.. (2023). Turbulence-resilient differential-phase-shift-keying free-space optical communications using automatic multi-mode optoelectronic mixing. Optics Communications. 534. 129330–129330.
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Eismann, Jörg S., Sergey Nechayev, M. Zahirul Alam, et al.. (2022). Enhanced spin–orbit coupling in an epsilon-near-zero material. Optica. 9(9). 1094–1094. 8 indexed citations
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Song, Hao, Xinzhou Su, Haoqian Song, et al.. (2021). Simultaneous turbulence mitigation and channel demultiplexing using a single multi-plane light convertor for a free-space optical link with two 100-Gbit/s OAM channels. Optics Communications. 501. 127359–127359. 12 indexed citations
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Wang, Fumin, Pei Zeng, Jiapeng Zhao, et al.. (2020). High-dimensional quantum key distribution based on mutually partially unbiased bases. Physical review. A. 101(3). 18 indexed citations
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Reshef, Orad, Mikko J. Huttunen, Brian Sullivan, et al.. (2019). High-Q resonance train in a plasmonic metasurface. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Jiapeng, et al.. (2019). Spatial sampling of terahertz fields with sub-wavelength accuracy via probe-beam encoding. Light Science & Applications. 8(1). 55–55. 58 indexed citations
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Yıldırım, Murat, et al.. (2019). Propagation of broadband THz pulses: effects of dispersion, diffraction and time-varying nonlinear refraction. Optics Express. 28(3). 3237–3237. 8 indexed citations
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Moreau, Paul‐Antoine, Peter A. Morris, Ermes Toninelli, et al.. (2018). Experimental Limits of Ghost Diffraction: Popper’s Thought Experiment. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 13183–13183. 12 indexed citations
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Tsakmakidis, Kosmas L., Ortwin Hess, Robert W. Boyd, & Xiang Zhang. (2017). Ultraslow waves on the nanoscale. Science. 358(6361). 99 indexed citations
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Kulkarni, Girish, et al.. (2016). Single-shot measurement of the orbital-angular-momentum spectrum of partially coherent fields. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Lukishova, Svetlana G., Chris M. Evans, Xiao‐Feng Qian, et al.. (2008). Visible and telecom-wavelength single quantum dots in 1-D photonic bandgap chiral microcavities. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1–2. 1 indexed citations
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Moll, K. D., D. Homoelle, Alexander L. Gaeta, & Robert W. Boyd. (2002). Conical Harmonic Generation in Isotropic Materials. Physical Review Letters. 88(15). 153901–153901. 34 indexed citations
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Buckland, Eric L. & Robert W. Boyd. (1997). Direct measurement of the electrostrictive nonlinearity through cross-phase-modulation in optical fibers. Optical Fiber Communication Conference. 1 indexed citations
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Boyd, Robert W., et al.. (1994). Com els processos de la microevolució varen donar lloc a la història. 157–172. 1 indexed citations
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Boyd, Robert W.. (1984). Book-Review - Radiometry and the Detection of Optical Radiation. 307. 575. 1 indexed citations
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Hillman, Lloyd W., Robert W. Boyd, Jerzy S. Krasiński, & C. R. Stroud. (1983). Intrinsic Instabilities in Homogeneously Broadened Lasers. ThB12–ThB12. 1 indexed citations
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Boyd, Robert W., et al.. (1980). Rapid Acquisition of Spread Spectrum Signals.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations

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