Thomas Pertsch

19.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
447 papers, 14.3k citations indexed

About

Thomas Pertsch is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Pertsch has authored 447 papers receiving a total of 14.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 321 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 194 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 154 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas Pertsch's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (149 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (142 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (125 papers). Thomas Pertsch is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (149 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (142 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (125 papers). Thomas Pertsch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and United States. Thomas Pertsch's co-authors include F. Lederer, Andreas Tünnermann, Isabelle Staude, Yuri S. Kivshar, Carsten Rockstuhl, Dragomir N. Neshev, Stefan Nolte, Frank Setzpfandt, Ulf Peschel and Alexander Szameit and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Pertsch

417 papers receiving 13.7k citations

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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.

High‐Efficiency Dielectric Huygens’ Surfaces

2015 1.0k citations Isabelle Staude, Dragomir N. Neshev et al. profile →
Asymmetric Transmission of Linearly Polarized Light at Optical Metamaterials

2010 566 citations Carsten Rockstuhl, Andreas Tünnermann et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Pertsch Germany	61	9.0k	5.7k	5.2k	4.9k	2.9k	447	14.3k
Guy Bartal Israel	42	6.9k 0.8×	6.2k 1.1×	6.5k 1.3×	3.8k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	128	12.7k
Dragomir N. Neshev Australia	71	11.4k 1.3×	9.5k 1.7×	8.7k 1.7×	5.5k 1.1×	3.3k 1.2×	372	19.2k
Evgenii E. Narimanov United States	42	5.3k 0.6×	6.3k 1.1×	5.1k 1.0×	2.7k 0.5×	772 0.3×	172	10.3k
F. Lederer Germany	71	14.4k 1.6×	6.3k 1.1×	5.6k 1.1×	6.7k 1.4×	8.3k 2.9×	518	21.1k
Andrey E. Miroshnichenko Australia	71	12.2k 1.4×	12.6k 2.2×	14.4k 2.8×	7.5k 1.5×	1.1k 0.4×	337	22.9k
A. Douglas Stone United States	33	7.1k 0.8×	2.1k 0.4×	2.2k 0.4×	3.1k 0.6×	2.7k 0.9×	69	9.2k
Shuangchun Wen China	69	14.1k 1.6×	4.3k 0.7×	4.5k 0.9×	9.0k 1.8×	1.2k 0.4×	425	18.1k
Ortwin Hess United Kingdom	45	5.2k 0.6×	3.4k 0.6×	4.3k 0.8×	3.4k 0.7×	502 0.2×	261	9.1k
Jianlin Zhao China	58	8.8k 1.0×	2.5k 0.4×	3.9k 0.8×	5.8k 1.2×	648 0.2×	562	13.1k
J. P. Woerdman Netherlands	49	15.5k 1.7×	2.7k 0.5×	6.2k 1.2×	5.1k 1.0×	1.0k 0.4×	281	17.6k

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Lam, Shiu Hei, Jinyong Ma, Thomas Pertsch, & Andrey A. Sukhorukov. (2025). Tailorable spin-to-orbital angular momentum degree-of-freedom complete conversion with cascaded metasurfaces. Photonics Research. 14(2). B220–B220.

Barreda, Ángela, et al.. (2025). Time-domain analysis of mode competition in ZnO nanowire lasers in inhomogeneous environments. Optical and Quantum Electronics. 57(2).

Bucher, Tobias, Matthias Wurdack, Emad Najafidehaghani, et al.. (2024). Influence of resonant plasmonic nanoparticles on optically accessing the valley degree of freedom in 2D semiconductors. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10098–10098. 2 indexed citations

Weissflog, Maximilian A., Anna Fedotova, Yilin Tang, et al.. (2024). A tunable transition metal dichalcogenide entangled photon-pair source. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7600–7600. 36 indexed citations

Barreda, Ángela, et al.. (2023). Photoluminescence Enhancement of Monolayer WS₂ by n-Doping with an Optically Excited Gold Disk. Nano Letters. 23(23). 10848–10855. 13 indexed citations

Pertsch, Thomas, Shumin Xiao, Arka Majumdar, & Guixin Li. (2023). Optical metasurfaces: fundamentals and applications. Photonics Research. 11(5). OMFA1–OMFA1. 8 indexed citations

Vaskin, Aleksandr, et al.. (2023). Color Routing of the Emission from Magnetic and Electric Dipole Transitions of Eu³⁺ by Broken-Symmetry TiO₂ Metasurfaces. ACS Nano. 18(1). 506–514. 10 indexed citations

Barreda, Ángela, Lilit Ghazaryan, Tobias Bucher, et al.. (2023). Precision Tailoring Quasi-BIC Resonance of a-Si:H Metasurfaces. Nanomaterials. 13(11). 1810–1810. 5 indexed citations

Geiß, Reinhard, et al.. (2023). Preparing for a future with quantum technologies: an innovative approach to accessible quantum education. Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 175. 24–24. 1 indexed citations

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Pertsch, Thomas, et al.. (2023). All‐Dielectric Huygens’ Meta‐Waveguides for Resonant Integrated Photonics. Laser & Photonics Review. 17(6). 22 indexed citations

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Barreda, Ángela, Dennis Arslan, Michael Steinert, et al.. (2022). Near-field interference map due to a dipolar emission near the edge of a monocrystalline gold platelet. Journal of Optics. 24(12). 125001–125001. 1 indexed citations

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Gili, Valerio Flavio, et al.. (2022). Experimental realization of scanning quantum microscopy. Applied Physics Letters. 121(10). 8 indexed citations

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Fedotova, Anna, Mohammadreza Younesi, Jürgen Sautter, et al.. (2020). Second-Harmonic Generation in Resonant Nonlinear Metasurfaces Based on Lithium Niobate. Nano Letters. 20(12). 8608–8614. 146 indexed citations

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Vaskin, Aleksandr, Michael Steinert, Katie E. Chong, et al.. (2019). Manipulation of Magnetic Dipole Emission from Eu³⁺ with Mie-Resonant Dielectric Metasurfaces. Nano Letters. 19(2). 1015–1022. 84 indexed citations

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Bohn, Justus, Tobias Bucher, Katie E. Chong, et al.. (2018). Active Tuning of Spontaneous Emission by Mie-Resonant Dielectric Metasurfaces. Nano Letters. 18(6). 3461–3465. 115 indexed citations

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Shcherbakov, Maxim R., Sheng Liu, Varvara V. Zubyuk, et al.. (2017). Ultrafast all-optical tuning of magnetic modes in GaAs metasurfaces. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. FTu4G.1–FTu4G.1. 4 indexed citations

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Geiß, Reinhard, S. Diziain, Michael Steinert, et al.. (2014). Photonic crystals in lithium niobate by combining focussed ion beam writing and ion‐beam enhanced etching. physica status solidi (a). 211(10). 2421–2425. 27 indexed citations

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Kartashov, Yaroslav V., V. A. Vysloukh, Alexander Szameit, et al.. (2008). Surface solitons at interfaces of arrays with spatially modulated nonlinearity. Optics Letters. 33(10). 1120–1120. 21 indexed citations

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Iwanow, Robert, Roland Schiek, G. I. Stegeman, et al.. (2005). Arrays of weakly coupled, periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides: beam propagation and discrete spatial quadratic solitons. Opto-Electronics Review. 113–121. 6 indexed citations

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Pertsch, Thomas, Robert Iwanow, Roland Schiek, et al.. (2004). Transparent switching in PPLN waveguide arrays. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 1. 1 indexed citations

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