Scott A. Diddams

31.1k total citations · 10 hit papers
365 papers, 18.6k citations indexed

About

Scott A. Diddams is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott A. Diddams has authored 365 papers receiving a total of 18.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 352 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 229 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 73 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Scott A. Diddams's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (316 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (119 papers) and Advanced Frequency and Time Standards (101 papers). Scott A. Diddams is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (316 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (119 papers) and Advanced Frequency and Time Standards (101 papers). Scott A. Diddams collaborates with scholars based in United States, Egypt and Germany. Scott A. Diddams's co-authors include L. Hollberg, Ronald Holzwarth, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Tara M. Fortier, Robert S. Windeler, J. L. Hall, David J. Jones, Steven T. Cundiff, C. W. Oates and Jonas Bergquist and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Scott A. Diddams

337 papers receiving 17.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Carrier-Envelope Phase Control of Femtosecond Mode-Locked Lasers and Direct Optical Frequency Synthesis

2000 1.8k citations Scott A. Diddams et al. profile →
Microresonator-Based Optical Frequency Combs

2011 1.3k citations Scott A. Diddams et al. profile →
Frequency Ratio of Al⁺and Hg⁺Single-Ion Optical Clocks; Metrology at the 17th Decimal Place

2008 1000 citations Scott A. Diddams, Nathan R. Newbury et al. profile →
Direct Link between Microwave and Optical Frequencies with a 300 THz Femtosecond Laser Comb

2000 748 citations Scott A. Diddams et al. profile →
Molecular fingerprinting with the resolved modes of a femtosecond laser frequency comb

2007 566 citations Scott A. Diddams et al. profile →
Generation of ultrastable microwaves via optical frequency division

2011 534 citations Franklyn Quinlan, Scott A. Diddams et al. profile →
An Optical Clock Based on a Single Trapped ¹⁹⁹ Hg ⁺ Ion

2001 460 citations Scott A. Diddams et al. profile →
The evolving optical frequency comb [Invited]

2010 431 citations Scott A. Diddams Journal of the Optical Society of America B profile →
Optical frequency combs: Coherently uniting the electromagnetic spectrum

2020 391 citations Scott A. Diddams, Kerry J. Vahala et al. profile →
Microresonator frequency comb optical clock

2014 335 citations Scott B. Papp, Katja Beha et al. Optica profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Quantification of broadband chromatic drifts in Fabry–Pérot resonators for exoplanet science 2025 ·Nature Astronomy ·(unknown), Connor Fredrick, Scott A. Diddams, Ryan C. Terrien, Suvrath Mahadevan, Joe P. Ninan, Samuel Halverson, Chad F. Bender, Fred Hearty, Daniel J. B. Mitchell, Jayadev Rajagopal, Arpita Roy, Christian Schwab, Jason T. Wright	2
2	Searching for GEMS: Discovery and Characterization of Two Brown Dwarfs Around M Dwarfs* 2025 ·The Astronomical Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), Henry A. Kobulnicky, Caleb I. Cañas, Shubham Kanodia, Jessica E. Libby-Roberts, Andrew Monson, Arvind F. Gupta, William D. Cochran, Suvrath Mahadevan, Chad F. Bender, Scott A. Diddams, Samuel Halverson, Andrea S. J. Lin, Maxwell Moe, Joe P. Ninan, Paul Robertson, Arpita Roy, Christian Schwab, Guđmundur Stefánsson	1
3	Mid-infrared hyperspectral microscopy with broadband 1-GHz dual frequency combs 2024 ·APL Photonics ·Peter Chang, (unknown), Nazanin Hoghooghi, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jens Biegert, Gregory B. Rieker, Rohith Reddy, Scott A. Diddams	4
4	Photonic millimeter-wave generation beyond the cavity thermal limit 2024 ·Optica ·(unknown), Igor Kudelin, A. R. Lind, Dahyeon Lee, Takuma Nakamura, (unknown), Megan Kelleher, Charles A. McLemore, Joel Guo, Lue Wu, Warren Jin, Kerry J. Vahala, John E. Bowers, Franklyn Quinlan, Scott A. Diddams	8
5	Ultrastable vacuum-gap Fabry–Perot cavities operated in air 2024 ·Optica ·(unknown), Naijun Jin, Dahyeon Lee, Charles A. McLemore, Takuma Nakamura, Megan Kelleher, (unknown), Susan Schima, Nazanin Hoghooghi, Scott A. Diddams, Peter T. Rakich, Franklyn Quinlan	6
6	Low-noise microwave generation with an air-gap optical reference cavity 2024 ·APL Photonics ·(unknown), Dahyeon Lee, Takuma Nakamura, Naijun Jin, (unknown), Megan Kelleher, Charles A. McLemore, Igor Kudelin, (unknown), Scott A. Diddams, Peter T. Rakich, Franklyn Quinlan	10
7	Multi-harmonic near-infrared–ultraviolet dual-comb spectrometer 2024 ·Optics Letters ·Kristina F. Chang, (unknown), (unknown), Peter Chang, (unknown), Alexander J. Lind, Scott A. Diddams	2
8	An optoelectronic microwave synthesizer with frequency tunability and low phase noise 2024 ·Nature Electronics ·Igor Kudelin, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Megan Kelleher, Dahyeon Lee, Takuma Nakamura, Charles A. McLemore, Alexander J. Lind, (unknown), Junwu Bai, Joe C. Campbell, Steven M. Bowers, Franklyn Quinlan, Scott A. Diddams	3
9	A novel approach to interface high-Q Fabry–Pérot resonators with photonic circuits 2023 ·APL Photonics ·(unknown), Naijun Jin, Zhaowei Dai, Chao Xiang, Joel Guo, Yishu Zhou, Scott A. Diddams, Franklyn Quinlan, John E. Bowers, Owen D. Miller, Peter T. Rakich	11
10	Broadband ultraviolet-visible frequency combs from cascaded high-harmonic generation in quasi-phase-matched waveguides 2021 ·Journal of the Optical Society of America B ·(unknown), (unknown), Daniel D. Hickstein, Scott A. Diddams, Thomas K. Allison, Abijith S. Kowligy	21
11	Reduction of Flicker Phase Noise in High-Speed Photodetectors Under Ultrashort Pulse Illumination 2021 ·IEEE photonics journal ·Dahyeon Lee, Takuma Nakamura, Jizhao Zang, Joe C. Campbell, Scott A. Diddams, Franklyn Quinlan	10
12	Single-cycle all-fiber frequency comb 2021 ·APL Photonics ·(unknown), (unknown), Takeshi Umeki, Alexander J. Lind, Nazanin Hoghooghi, Tsung-Han Wu, Scott A. Diddams	26
13	Direct Kerr frequency comb atomic spectroscopy and stabilization 2020 ·Science Advances ·Liron Stern, Jordan R. Stone, Songbai Kang, Daniel C. Cole, Myoung‐Gyun Suh, Connor Fredrick, Zachary L. Newman, Kerry J. Vahala, John Kitching, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp	65
14	Infrared electric field sampled frequency comb spectroscopy 2019 ·Science Advances ·Abijith S. Kowligy, Henry Timmers, Alexander J. Lind, Ugaitz Elu, Flávio C. Cruz, Peter G. Schunemann, Jens Biegert, Scott A. Diddams	89
15	Infrared frequency comb generation and spectroscopy with suspended silicon nanophotonic waveguides 2019 ·Optica ·Nima Nader, Abijith S. Kowligy, Jeff Chiles, Eric J. Stanton, Henry Timmers, Alexander J. Lind, Flávio C. Cruz, (unknown), Kimberly A. Briggman, Sae Woo Nam, Scott A. Diddams, Richard P. Mirin	39
16	Molecular fingerprinting with bright, broadband infrared frequency combs 2018 ·Optica ·Henry Timmers, Abijith S. Kowligy, Alex Lind, Flávio C. Cruz, Nima Nader, (unknown), Gabriel Ycas, Thomas K. Allison, Peter G. Schunemann, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams	151
17	Fully self-referenced frequency comb consuming 5 watts of electrical power 2018 ·OSA Continuum ·(unknown), Edgar F. Perez, Daniel D. Hickstein, David R. Carlson, Jeff Chiles, Daron Westly, Esther Baumann, Scott A. Diddams, Nathan R. Newbury, Kartik Srinivasan, Scott B. Papp, Ian Coddington	21
18	Microresonator frequency comb optical clock \| NIST 2014 ·Optica ·Scott B. Papp, Katja Beha, (unknown), Franklyn Quinlan, Hansuek Lee, Kerry J. Vahala, Scott A. Diddams	1
19	The habitable-zone planet finder: a stabilized fiber-fed NIR spectrograph for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope 2012 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Suvrath Mahadevan, Lawrence W. Ramsey, Chad F. Bender, Ryan C. Terrien, Jason T. Wright, Samuel Halverson, Fred Hearty, Matt Nelson, Adam Burton, Stephen L. Redman, Steven N. Osterman, Scott A. Diddams, James F. Kasting, Michael Endl, Rohit Deshpande	69
20	Complete characterization of femtosecond pulses with all-electronic detection 1996 ·Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·(unknown), Scott A. Diddams, J.-C. Diels	1

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