Sylvain Fasel

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 946 citations indexed

About

Sylvain Fasel is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvain Fasel has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 946 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 2 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sylvain Fasel's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (8 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (5 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (3 papers). Sylvain Fasel is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (8 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (5 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (3 papers). Sylvain Fasel collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Spain and France. Sylvain Fasel's co-authors include Nicolas Gisin, Hugo Zbinden, G. Ribordy, Barbara Kraus, Sébastien Tanzilli, Esteban Moreno, A. Beveratos, Pascal Baldi, Daniel Erni and Olivier Alibart and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Sylvain Fasel

10 papers receiving 901 citations

Hit Papers

Trojan-horse attacks on quantum-key-distribution systems 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 100 200 300 400
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. Trojan-horse attacks on quantum-key-distribution systems
    2006 420 citations Nicolas Gisin, Sylvain Fasel et al. Physical Review A profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sylvain Fasel Switzerland 8 807 782 167 100 53 10 946
Daniele Cozzolino Denmark 11 524 0.6× 519 0.7× 231 1.4× 96 1.0× 22 0.4× 22 723
Qi-Chao Sun China 15 393 0.5× 520 0.7× 146 0.9× 35 0.3× 68 1.3× 33 782
Taira Giordani Italy 13 268 0.3× 327 0.4× 129 0.8× 141 1.4× 22 0.4× 29 487
Kevin Günthner Germany 6 392 0.5× 640 0.8× 189 1.1× 196 2.0× 77 1.5× 13 721
Mihir Pant United States 12 401 0.5× 335 0.4× 325 1.9× 33 0.3× 15 0.3× 20 623
Chenzhi Yuan China 10 265 0.3× 344 0.4× 122 0.7× 41 0.4× 32 0.6× 41 468
Lu‐Feng Qiao China 12 296 0.4× 421 0.5× 140 0.8× 54 0.5× 24 0.5× 20 558
Alessia Suprano Italy 13 255 0.3× 349 0.4× 85 0.5× 122 1.2× 22 0.4× 21 444
Tedros Tsegaye Sweden 10 283 0.4× 398 0.5× 155 0.9× 40 0.4× 8 0.2× 16 461
Manabu Oguma Japan 13 580 0.7× 359 0.5× 801 4.8× 37 0.4× 9 0.2× 32 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Sylvain Fasel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sylvain Fasel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sylvain Fasel. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sylvain Fasel. The network helps show where Sylvain Fasel may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvain Fasel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sylvain Fasel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sylvain Fasel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sylvain Fasel. Sylvain Fasel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Stucki, Damien, Sylvain Fasel, Jean-Daniel Gautier, et al.. (2009). Continuous high speed coherent one-way quantum key distribution. Optics Express. 17(16). 13326–13326. 62 indexed citations
2.
Stucki, Damien, Sylvain Fasel, Nicolas Gisin, Yann Thoma, & Hugo Zbinden. (2007). Coherent one-way quantum key distribution. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6583. 65830L–65830L. 15 indexed citations
3.
Gisin, Nicolas, et al.. (2006). Trojan-horse attacks on quantum-key-distribution systems (6 pages). Physical Review A. 73(2). 22320. 69 indexed citations
4.
Gisin, Nicolas, Sylvain Fasel, Barbara Kraus, Hugo Zbinden, & G. Ribordy. (2006). Trojan-horse attacks on quantum-key-distribution systems. Physical Review A. 73(2). 420 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fasel, Sylvain, F. Robin, Esteban Moreno, et al.. (2005). Energy-Time Entanglement Preservation in Plasmon-Assisted Light Transmission. Physical Review Letters. 94(11). 110501–110501. 119 indexed citations
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Fasel, Sylvain, F. Robin, Esteban Moreno, et al.. (2005). Publisher’s Note: Energy-Time Entanglement Preservation in Plasmon-Assisted Light Transmission [Phys. Rev. Lett.94, 110501 (2005)]. Physical Review Letters. 94(14). 1 indexed citations
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Fasel, Sylvain, Nicolas Gisin, G. Ribordy, & Hugo Zbinden. (2004). Quantum key distribution over 30 km of standard fiber using energy-time entangled photon pairs: a comparison of two chromatic dispersion reduction methods. The European Physical Journal D. 30(1). 143–148. 37 indexed citations
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Fasel, Sylvain, Olivier Alibart, Sébastien Tanzilli, et al.. (2004). High-quality asynchronous heralded single-photon source at telecom wavelength. New Journal of Physics. 6. 163–163. 142 indexed citations
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Fasel, Sylvain, Nicolas Gisin, G. Ribordy, Valerio Scarani, & Hugo Zbinden. (2002). Quantum Cloning with an Optical Fiber Amplifier. Physical Review Letters. 89(10). 107901–107901. 80 indexed citations
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Zbinden, Hugo, Sylvain Fasel, Nicolas Gisin, et al.. (2002). Practical quantum key distribution. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4917. 40–40. 1 indexed citations

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