Tara M. Fortier

8.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
106 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Tara M. Fortier is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Tara M. Fortier has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 49 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 11 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Tara M. Fortier's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (74 papers), Advanced Frequency and Time Standards (55 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (22 papers). Tara M. Fortier is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (74 papers), Advanced Frequency and Time Standards (55 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (22 papers). Tara M. Fortier collaborates with scholars based in United States, Egypt and Germany. Tara M. Fortier's co-authors include Scott A. Diddams, Jonas Bergquist, T. Rosenband, J. E. Stalnaker, C. W. Oates, Franklyn Quinlan, Andrew D. Ludlow, N. Lemke, Wayne M. Itano and Steven T. Cundiff and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature Photonics.

In The Last Decade

Tara M. Fortier

94 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Frequency Ratio of Al⁺and Hg⁺Single-Ion Optical Clocks; Metrology at the 17th Decimal Place

2008 1000 citations T. Rosenband, David Hume et al. profile →
Generation of ultrastable microwaves via optical frequency division

2011 534 citations Tara M. Fortier, Matthew S. Kirchner et al. Nature Photonics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tara M. Fortier United States	36	4.9k	1.9k	457	346	185	106	5.2k
Andrew D. Ludlow United States	32	5.1k 1.1×	1.0k 0.5×	322 0.7×	405 1.2×	192 1.0×	85	5.4k
C. W. Oates United States	38	5.7k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	566 1.2×	449 1.3×	214 1.2×	95	5.9k
R.E. Drullinger United States	29	4.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	895 2.0×	484 1.4×	279 1.5×	103	4.7k
A. Clairon France	39	5.2k 1.1×	822 0.4×	648 1.4×	752 2.2×	280 1.5×	150	5.6k
G. Santarelli France	27	2.9k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	629 1.4×	264 0.8×	86 0.5×	132	3.3k
Hidetoshi Katori Japan	37	5.4k 1.1×	478 0.2×	376 0.8×	383 1.1×	406 2.2×	91	5.6k
P. Lemonde France	34	3.6k 0.7×	533 0.3×	322 0.7×	357 1.0×	153 0.8×	89	3.9k
J. E. Stalnaker United States	17	2.4k 0.5×	268 0.1×	249 0.5×	220 0.6×	154 0.8×	33	2.6k
J.H. Shirley United States	20	3.3k 0.7×	379 0.2×	522 1.1×	351 1.0×	431 2.3×	69	3.6k
Thomas Udem Germany	25	4.1k 0.8×	2.2k 1.1×	1.0k 2.2×	180 0.5×	75 0.4×	101	4.5k

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Mazurek, Michael D., et al.. (2026). Phase-Stable Optical Fiber Links for Quantum Network Protocols. 1 indexed citations

Nakamura, Takuma, et al.. (2026). Sub-femtosecond stabilization of multicore fiber for high-fidelity quantum networking at 100% duty cycle. APL Photonics. 11(2).

Aeppli, Alexander, Kyungtae Kim, Dahyeon Lee, et al.. (2025). High-Stability Single-Ion Clock with 5.5×10−19 Systematic Uncertainty. Physical Review Letters. 135(3). 33201–33201. 9 indexed citations

Fortier, Tara M. & Víctor Torres–Company. (2024). Optical frequency combs: Driving precision across the fundamental and applied research domains. APL Photonics. 9(6).

McGrew, William F., Ethan Clements, Youssef S. Hassan, et al.. (2022). Improved interspecies optical clock comparisons through differential spectroscopy. Nature Physics. 19(1). 25–29. 25 indexed citations

Milner, William R., John Robinson, Colin J. Kennedy, et al.. (2019). Demonstration of a Timescale Based on a Stable Optical Carrier. Physical Review Letters. 123(17). 173201–173201. 51 indexed citations

Fox, Richard W., Tara M. Fortier, Roger C. Brown, et al.. (2019). Ramsey-Bordé Matter-Wave Interferometry for Laser Frequency Stabilization at 10−16 Frequency Instability and Below. Physical Review Letters. 123(7). 73202–73202. 30 indexed citations

Fortier, Tara M., Antoine Rolland, Franklyn Quinlan, et al.. (2016). Optically referenced broadband electronic synthesizer with 15 digits of resolution. Laser & Photonics Review. 10(5). 780–790. 43 indexed citations

Quinlan, Franklyn, Tara M. Fortier, Jean-Daniel Deschênes, et al.. (2014). Broadband Noise Limit in the Photodetection of Ultralow Jitter Optical Pulses. Physical Review Letters. 113(20). 203901–203901. 25 indexed citations

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Fortier, Tara M., Craig W. Nelson, Archita Hati, et al.. (2012). A hybrid 10 GHz photonic-microwave oscillator with sub-femtosecond absolute timing jitter. 1–2. 3 indexed citations

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Fortier, Tara M., Matthew S. Kirchner, Franklyn Quinlan, et al.. (2011). Photonic Generation of Ultrastable Microwave Signals. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Michael J., Lars Rippe, Tara M. Fortier, Matthew S. Kirchner, & T. Rosenband. (2011). Frequency stabilization to 6 × 10−16 via spectral-hole burning. Nature Photonics. 5(11). 688–693. 80 indexed citations

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Diddams, Scott A., Michal Kirchner, Tara M. Fortier, et al.. (2009). Improved signal-to-noise ratio of 10 GHz microwave signals generated with a mode-filtered femtosecond laser frequency comb. Optics Express. 17(5). 3331–3331. 81 indexed citations

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Barber, Zeb W., Chad Hoyt, J. E. Stalnaker, et al.. (2007). Lattice-based optical clock using an even isotope of Yb. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6673. 66730E–66730E. 3 indexed citations

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Rosenband, T., Piet O. Schmidt, David Hume, et al.. (2007). Observation of theS01→P03Clock Transition inAl+27. Physical Review Letters. 98(22). 220801–220801. 169 indexed citations

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Kirchner, Matthew S., Tara M. Fortier, A. Bartels, & Scott A. Diddams. (2006). A low-threshold self-referenced Ti:sapphire optical frequency comb. 12. 1–2. 1 indexed citations

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Jones, David J., Tara M. Fortier, & Steven T. Cundiff. (2004). Highly sensitive detection of the carrier-envelope phase evolution and offset of femtosecond mode-locked oscillators. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 21(5). 1098–1098. 8 indexed citations

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Haljan, P. C., Tara M. Fortier, Paweł Hawrylak, P. B. Corkum, & Misha Ivanov. (2003). High harmonic generation and level bifurcation in strongly driven quantum wells. NPARC. 1 indexed citations

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Fortier, Tara M.. (2003). Phase-stabilized modelocked lasers: From optical frequency metrology to waveform synthesis of ultrashort pulses. PhDT. 1 indexed citations

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Ye, J., Steven T. Cundiff, Seth M. Foreman, et al.. (2002). Phase-coherent synthesis of optical frequencies and waveforms. Applied Physics B. 74(S1). s27–s34. 18 indexed citations

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