Stéphane Virally

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 675 citations indexed

About

Stéphane Virally is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Stéphane Virally has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 675 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Stéphane Virally's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (6 papers), Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (6 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (6 papers). Stéphane Virally is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (6 papers), Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (6 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (6 papers). Stéphane Virally collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and United States. Stéphane Virally's co-authors include Nicolas Godbout, Qiaoliang Bao, Loh Kian Ping, Han Zhang, Pascal Kockaert, Serge Massar, Bertrand Reulet, Alexandre Kudlinski, Caroline Boudoux and Christian Lupien and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review A, Optics Letters and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Stéphane Virally

19 papers receiving 637 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.

Z-scan measurement of the nonlinear refractive index of graphene

2012 537 citations Han Zhang, Stéphane Virally et al. Optics Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stéphane Virally Canada	8	444	373	330	177	95	20	675
Benjamin Tilmann United Kingdom	9	294 0.7×	241 0.6×	182 0.6×	144 0.8×	134 1.4×	14	493
Rongguo Lu China	17	646 1.5×	839 2.2×	278 0.8×	169 1.0×	43 0.5×	64	986
B. le Feber Netherlands	11	411 0.9×	215 0.6×	338 1.0×	112 0.6×	151 1.6×	17	575
Rongbin Su China	12	339 0.8×	275 0.7×	229 0.7×	104 0.6×	171 1.8×	17	555
Hannes Pfeifer Germany	12	414 0.9×	332 0.9×	118 0.4×	37 0.2×	44 0.5×	22	548
Loh Kian Ping Singapore	2	352 0.8×	288 0.8×	324 1.0×	176 1.0×	95 1.0×	6	542
Anshuman Singh United States	9	301 0.7×	238 0.6×	230 0.7×	56 0.3×	108 1.1×	16	464
Zengkai Shao China	10	510 1.1×	303 0.8×	153 0.5×	74 0.4×	141 1.5×	22	639
Marijana Milićević France	10	412 0.9×	132 0.4×	166 0.5×	162 0.9×	77 0.8×	13	547

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stéphane Virally

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Shi-Long, Yingwen Zhang, Stéphane Virally, et al.. (2025). Experimental Emulator of Pulse Dynamics in Fractional Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(8). 7 indexed citations

Virally, Stéphane, et al.. (2025). Mode-Selective Photonic Lanterns With Double-Clad Fibers. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 43(12). 5829–5835. 1 indexed citations

Virally, Stéphane, et al.. (2025). Three-mode photonic lanterns: comprehensive analysis from theory to experiments. Optics Continuum. 4(6). 1198–1198. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Shilong, et al.. (2025). Engineering Spectro-Temporal Light States with Physics-Embedded Deep Learning. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 5.

Virally, Stéphane, et al.. (2024). SuPyMode: an open-source library for design and optimization of fiber optic components,. Optics Continuum. 3(2). 242–242. 2 indexed citations

Boyer, Michel, et al.. (2023). Simple and Rigorous Proof Method for the Security of Practical Quantum Key Distribution in the Single-Qubit Regime Using Mismatched Basis Measurements. Quantum Reports. 5(1). 52–77. 3 indexed citations

Virally, Stéphane, et al.. (2023). Fabrication and characterization of indium fluoride multimode fused fiber couplers for the mid-infrared. Optics Express. 31(20). 33670–33670. 12 indexed citations

Virally, Stéphane, et al.. (2023). Self‐Referenced Subcycle Metrology of Quantum Fields. Laser & Photonics Review. 17(6). 5 indexed citations

Beaudoin, Simon, et al.. (2023). Short mode-selective photonic lanterns using double-clad fibers. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 6–6. 2 indexed citations

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Virally, Stéphane, et al.. (2022). Photocount statistics of the Josephson parametric amplifier. Physical Review Research. 4(1). 2 indexed citations

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Virally, Stéphane, et al.. (2022). Viscosity of fluoride glass fibers for fused component fabrication. Applied Optics. 61(17). 5031–5031. 14 indexed citations

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Virally, Stéphane & Bertrand Reulet. (2019). Unidimensional time-domain quantum optics. Physical review. A. 100(2). 7 indexed citations

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Virally, Stéphane, et al.. (2017). Photon-pair shot noise in electron shot noise. Physical review. B.. 95(6). 5 indexed citations

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Virally, Stéphane, et al.. (2016). Discrete photon statistics from continuous microwave measurements. Physical review. A. 93(4). 11 indexed citations

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Kudlinski, Alexandre, A. Bendahmane, Stéphane Virally, et al.. (2013). Simultaneous scalar and cross-phase modulation instabilities in highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber. Optics Express. 21(7). 8437–8437. 26 indexed citations

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Zhang, Han, Stéphane Virally, Qiaoliang Bao, et al.. (2012). Z-scan measurement of the nonlinear refractive index of graphene. Optics Letters. 37(11). 1856–1856. 537 indexed citations breakdown →

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Virally, Stéphane, et al.. (2010). Two-fold symmetric geometries for tailored phase-matching in birefringent solid-core air-silica microstructured fibers. Optics Express. 18(10). 10731–10731. 5 indexed citations

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Slater, Joshua A., Stéphane Virally, Félix Bussières, et al.. (2010). Microstructured fiber source of photon pairs at widely separated wavelengths. Optics Letters. 35(4). 499–499. 21 indexed citations

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Virally, Stéphane, Suzanne Lacroix, & Nicolas Godbout. (2010). Limits of heralded single-photon sources based on parametric photon-pair generation. Physical Review A. 81(1). 3 indexed citations

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Virally, Stéphane, et al.. (2003). Use of High-Strength Alloys and Elastomers in Heavy Completion Brines. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. 11 indexed citations

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