Sandile Ngcobo

823 total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 617 citations indexed

About

Sandile Ngcobo is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandile Ngcobo has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 617 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sandile Ngcobo's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (15 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (10 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (10 papers). Sandile Ngcobo is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (15 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (10 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (10 papers). Sandile Ngcobo collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, France and Algeria. Sandile Ngcobo's co-authors include Andrew Forbes, Igor A. Litvin, Liesl Burger, Kamel Aı̈t-Ameur, C. Bollig, Martin Schellhorn, Michael Duparré, Christian Schulze, Nicolas Passilly and Robert Brüning and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Optics Letters and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Sandile Ngcobo

28 papers receiving 543 citations

Hit Papers

A digital laser for on-demand laser modes 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300
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.

  1. A digital laser for on-demand laser modes
    2013 308 citations Sandile Ngcobo, Igor A. Litvin et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sandile Ngcobo South Africa 9 534 305 162 49 39 32 617
Toni Saastamoinen Finland 12 489 0.9× 264 0.9× 265 1.6× 31 0.6× 21 0.5× 38 643
Liesl Burger South Africa 7 391 0.7× 188 0.6× 144 0.9× 46 0.9× 35 0.9× 16 454
Michael Esseling Germany 12 482 0.9× 227 0.7× 395 2.4× 63 1.3× 19 0.5× 14 620
Shanti Bhattacharya India 13 319 0.6× 194 0.6× 243 1.5× 117 2.4× 64 1.6× 72 539
Norihiro Fukuchi Japan 7 429 0.8× 104 0.3× 224 1.4× 54 1.1× 79 2.0× 12 488
Arthur S. van de Nes Netherlands 10 345 0.6× 124 0.4× 325 2.0× 53 1.1× 13 0.3× 19 484
A. Aadhi India 17 629 1.2× 267 0.9× 252 1.6× 87 1.8× 8 0.2× 47 707
Hoang-Trung Nguyen Vietnam 6 253 0.5× 349 1.1× 113 0.7× 185 3.8× 73 1.9× 14 535
Quanxin Na China 13 378 0.7× 437 1.4× 140 0.9× 48 1.0× 10 0.3× 44 601
H. C. Liang Taiwan 18 877 1.6× 639 2.1× 153 0.9× 29 0.6× 7 0.2× 80 969

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sandile Ngcobo

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ngcobo, Sandile, et al.. (2020). Digital laser for on-demand intracavity selective excitation of second harmonic higher-order modes. Optics Express. 28(11). 16907–16907. 15 indexed citations
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Ngcobo, Sandile, et al.. (2019). Intracavity second harmonic generation for higher-order laser modes. 64. 59–59. 1 indexed citations
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Aı̈t-Ameur, Kamel, et al.. (2016). Intracavity generation of low-loss radial-order Laguerre-Gaussian modes using digital holograms. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9727. 97271K–97271K. 3 indexed citations
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Ngcobo, Sandile, et al.. (2015). Low-loss selective excitation of higher-order modes in a diode-pumped solid-state digital laser. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9581. 95810S–95810S. 2 indexed citations
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Forbes, Andrew, et al.. (2015). Generation of Laguerre-Gaussian beams using a diode pumped solid-state digital laser. FW6B.3–FW6B.3. 1 indexed citations
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Litvin, Igor A., et al.. (2014). Doughnut laser beam as an incoherent superposition of two petal beams. Optics Letters. 39(3). 704–704. 45 indexed citations
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Burger, Liesl, Igor A. Litvin, Sandile Ngcobo, & Andrew Forbes. (2014). How to make a digital laser. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9257. 925706–925706. 1 indexed citations
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Forbes, Andrew, Sandile Ngcobo, Liesl Burger, & Igor A. Litvin. (2014). The digital laser: on-demand laser modes with the click of a button. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8960. 89601K–89601K. 4 indexed citations
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Mthunzi‐Kufa, Patience, Kuang He, Sandile Ngcobo, & Jamie H. Warner. (2014). Enhanced photo-transfection efficiency of mammalian cells on graphene coated substrates. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8944. 89440K–89440K.
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Ngcobo, Sandile, Igor A. Litvin, Liesl Burger, & Andrew Forbes. (2014). Digital control of laser modes with an intra-cavity spatial light modulator. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8960. 89601X–89601X. 1 indexed citations
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Ngcobo, Sandile, Igor A. Litvin, Liesl Burger, & Andrew Forbes. (2013). A digital laser for on-demand laser modes. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2289–2289. 308 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mthunzi‐Kufa, Patience, et al.. (2013). Graphene for improved femtosecond laser based pluripotent stem cell transfection. Journal of Biophotonics. 7(5). 351–362. 3 indexed citations
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Ngcobo, Sandile, et al.. (2013). Exciting higher-order radial Laguerre–Gaussian modes in a diode-pumped solid-state laser resonator. Applied Optics. 52(10). 2093–2093. 42 indexed citations
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Schulze, Christian, Sandile Ngcobo, Michael Duparré, & Andrew Forbes. (2012). Modal decomposition without a priori scale information. Optics Express. 20(25). 27866–27866. 37 indexed citations
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Ngcobo, Sandile. (2011). South Africa's transformative constitution : towards an appropriate doctrine of separation of powers. 22(1). 37–49. 1 indexed citations
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Forbes, Andrew, et al.. (2008). Laser beam propagation characteristics of incoherently added diode bars. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7062. 70621A–70621A. 2 indexed citations
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Schellhorn, Martin, Sandile Ngcobo, & C. Bollig. (2008). High-power diode-pumped Tm:YLF slab laser. Applied Physics B. 94(2). 195–198. 62 indexed citations
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Ngcobo, Sandile. (2003). Delivery of justice : agenda for change : National Judges' Symposium. South African Law Journal. 120(4). 688–708. 1 indexed citations
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Higginbotham, A. Leon, et al.. (1990). De Jure Housing Segregation in the United States and South Africa: The Difficult Pursuit for Racial Justice. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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