Sonja Franke‐Arnold

11.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
115 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Sonja Franke‐Arnold is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonja Franke‐Arnold has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 34 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sonja Franke‐Arnold's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (69 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (41 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (38 papers). Sonja Franke‐Arnold is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (69 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (41 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (38 papers). Sonja Franke‐Arnold collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Sonja Franke‐Arnold's co-authors include Miles J. Padgett, Stephen M. Barnett, Johannes Courtial, Jonathan Leach, Graham M. Gibson, M. V. Vasnetsov, В. Пасько, L. Allen, B. Jack and Jörg B. Götte and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sonja Franke‐Arnold

111 papers receiving 7.6k citations

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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.

Free-space information transfer using light beams carrying orbital angular momentum

2004 1.9k citations Graham M. Gibson, Johannes Courtial et al. Optics Express profile →
Measuring the Orbital Angular Momentum of a Single Photon

2002 795 citations Jonathan Leach, Miles J. Padgett et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Advances in optical angular momentum

2008 697 citations Sonja Franke‐Arnold, Miles J. Padgett et al. profile →
Quantum Correlations in Optical Angle–Orbital Angular Momentum Variables

2010 461 citations Jonathan Leach, B. Jack et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonja Franke‐Arnold United Kingdom	37	7.7k	3.0k	1.8k	1.6k	1.3k	115	8.1k
Johannes Courtial United Kingdom	36	8.2k 1.1×	4.1k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	126	9.0k
R. J. C. Spreeuw Netherlands	26	9.5k 1.2×	3.3k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	74	10.1k
Ebrahim Karimi Canada	47	6.6k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	187	7.9k
Jonathan Leach United Kingdom	50	7.2k 0.9×	3.5k 1.2×	2.5k 1.4×	1.6k 1.0×	766 0.6×	181	9.2k
Martin P. J. Lavery United Kingdom	35	7.9k 1.0×	3.6k 1.2×	948 0.5×	3.6k 2.2×	1.5k 1.2×	124	8.9k
Lorenzo Marrucci Italy	52	9.3k 1.2×	3.7k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	2.2k 1.3×	3.2k 2.6×	195	11.1k
Marco W. Beijersbergen Netherlands	18	10.7k 1.4×	5.1k 1.7×	1.2k 0.6×	2.5k 1.5×	2.1k 1.7×	85	11.7k
Daomu Zhao China	44	4.4k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	706 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	334 0.3×	341	6.9k
Konstantin Y. Bliokh Japan	50	11.1k 1.4×	4.5k 1.5×	1.9k 1.0×	2.2k 1.4×	2.7k 2.1×	126	12.5k
S. Dolinar United States	27	4.5k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	824 0.5×	3.8k 2.4×	970 0.8×	114	6.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Franke‐Arnold, Sonja, et al.. (2025). Knife-edge diffraction of scalar and vector vortex light. APL Photonics. 10(6).

Barnett, Stephen M., et al.. (2024). Theory of paraxial optical skyrmions. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 480(2297). 8 indexed citations

Ramakrishna, Seeram, et al.. (2024). Interaction of vector light beams with atoms exposed to a time-dependent magnetic field. Physical review. A. 110(4). 3 indexed citations

Kumar, Rahul, Alexey Y. Ganin, Donald A. MacLaren, et al.. (2024). Spatial Control of 2D Nanomaterial Electronic Properties Using Chiral Light Beams. ACS Nano. 18(31). 20401–20411. 1 indexed citations

Barnett, Stephen M., et al.. (2023). Optical skyrmions. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 57–57. 1 indexed citations

Klitis, Charalambos, et al.. (2023). On-chip generation of adjustable cylindrical vector beams. Optics Express. 31(18). 29166–29166. 2 indexed citations

Franke‐Arnold, Sonja, et al.. (2023). Building Paraxial Optical Skyrmions Using Rational Maps. Advanced Photonics Research. 4(4). 5 indexed citations

Bennett, Robert, et al.. (2021). Angular momentum redirection phase of vector beams in a non-planar geometry. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations

Kelly, Christopher V., Donald A. MacLaren, Affar S. Karimullah, et al.. (2020). Controlling the symmetry of inorganic ionic nanofilms with optical chirality. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5169–5169. 11 indexed citations

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Clark, Thomas W., et al.. (2018). Holographically controlled three-dimensional atomic population patterns. Optics Express. 26(14). 18513–18513. 1 indexed citations

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Radwell, Neal, Thomas W. Clark, Bruno Piccirillo, Stephen M. Barnett, & Sonja Franke‐Arnold. (2015). Spatially Dependent Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. Physical Review Letters. 114(12). 123603–123603. 125 indexed citations

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Stamps, R. L., et al.. (2012). Faraday Rotation for Superpositions of Electron Vortex States. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Romero, Jacquiline, Daniel Giovannini, Sonja Franke‐Arnold, Stephen M. Barnett, & Miles J. Padgett. (2012). Increasing the dimension in high-dimensional two-photon orbital angular momentum entanglement. Physical Review A. 86(1). 80 indexed citations

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Leach, Jonathan, B. Jack, Jacquiline Romero, et al.. (2009). Violation of a Bell inequality in two-dimensional orbital angular momentum state-spaces. Optics Express. 17(10). 8287–8287. 124 indexed citations

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Franke‐Arnold, Sonja, Jonathan Leach, Miles J. Padgett, et al.. (2007). Optical Ferris Wheel for Ultracold Atoms. CMI3–CMI3. 3 indexed citations

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Götte, Jörg B., et al.. (2006). Angular EPR paradox. Journal of Modern Optics. 53(5-6). 627–645. 10 indexed citations

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Zambrini, Roberta, et al.. (2006). Minimum uncertainty states of angular momentum and angular position. 6. 289–289. 2 indexed citations

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Gibson, Graham M., Johannes Courtial, Miles J. Padgett, et al.. (2004). Free-space information transfer using light beams carrying orbital angular momentum. Optics Express. 12(22). 5448–5448. 1948 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gibson, Graham M., et al.. (2004). Increasing the data density of free-space optical communications using orbital angular momentum. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5550. 367–367. 26 indexed citations

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Huyet, Guillaume, Sonja Franke‐Arnold, & Stephen M. Barnett. (2001). Superposition states at finite temperature. Physical Review A. 63(4). 7 indexed citations

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