Sterling Backus

7.7k citations
80 papers · 5.5k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 31

Sterling Backus

73 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Sterling Backus
Comparison fields: 5 of 81
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 4.7k
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 1.4k
  • Structural Biology 149
  • Biophysics 294
  • Radiation 385
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Sterling Backus, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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2 20212
3 20190
4 20171
5 201269
6 20121
7 201216
8 2010107
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High-resolution EUV imaging using high harmonic generation
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12 200435
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14 2002278
15 200181
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Shaped-pulse optimization of coherent emission of high-harmonic soft X-raysbreakdown →
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17 1999163
18 1999255
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Phase-matching of high-order harmonic generation in capillary waveguides
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20 199810

About Sterling Backus

Sterling Backus is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Radiation, having authored 80 papers that have together received 5.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (64 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (51 papers), Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (24 papers), Solid State Laser Technologies (22 papers), Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (11 papers), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (9 papers), Laser Design and Applications (8 papers) and Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (4.7k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (1.4k citations) and Structural Biology (149 citations). Sterling Backus has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Bulgaria and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, Charles G. Durfee, Randy A. Bartels, Ivan P. Christov, Andy Rundquist, Catherine M. Herne, G. Mourou, Erik Zeek and Gleb Vdovin. Their work appears in journals such as Optics Letters, Optics Express, Physical Review Letters, Journal of the Optical Society of America B and Optics and Photonics News.

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