Uwe Sterr

9.0k citations

131 papers · 5.0k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 40

Impact in

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 0.5%
- Advanced Frequency and Time Standards
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
- Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research
- Quantum optics and atomic interactions
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty top 0.5%
- Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation

Papers in

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 111
- Advanced Frequency and Time Standards 96
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates 73
- Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research 44
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies 42
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 11
- Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation 11

Co-authors: F. Riehle Thomas Legero Christian Lisdat Christian Grebing J. Helmcke Sebastian Häfner John Robinson Dan Matei
Journals: Physical Review A (12 papers)Applied Physics B (11 papers)Physical Review Letters (10 papers)IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (8 papers)Optics Letters (8 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Uwe Sterr

125 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Demonstration of 4.8 × 10−17 stability at 1 s for two independent optical clocks 2019 · 288 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Nature Photonics
2017 Physical Review Letters
2012 Nature Photonics

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1	Ultra-stable transportable ultraviolet clock laser using cancellation between photo-thermal and photo-birefringence noise Optics Letters ·B. Kraus, Sofia Herbers, Constantin Nauk, Uwe Sterr, Christian Lisdat, Piet O. Schmidt	2024	1
2	Frequency stability of cryogenic silicon cavities with semiconductor crystalline coatings Optica ·Dhruv Kedar, Jialiang Yu, E. Oelker, Alexander Staron, William R. Milner, John Robinson, Thomas Legero, F. Riehle, Uwe Sterr, Jun Ye	2023	30
3	Substrate-transferred GaAs/AlGaAs crystalline coatings for gravitational-wave detectors Applied Physics Letters ·Garrett D. Cole, S. Ballmer, G. Billingsley, Seth B. Cataño-Lopez, M. M. Fejer, P. Fritschel, Andri M. Gretarsson, Gregory Harry, Dhruv Kedar, Thomas Legero, C. N. Makarem, S. Penn, D. H. Reitze, J. Steinlechner, Uwe Sterr, S. Tanioka, Gar-Wing Truong, Jun Ye, Jialiang Yu	2023	13
4	Excess Noise and Photoinduced Effects in Highly Reflective Crystalline Mirror Coatings Physical Review X ·Jialiang Yu, Sebastian Häfner, Thomas Legero, Sofia Herbers, Daniele Nicolodi, Chun Yu, F. Riehle, Uwe Sterr, Dhruv Kedar, John Robinson, E. Oelker, Jun Ye	2023	21
5	Ultimate stability of active optical frequency standards Physical review. A ·Georgy A. Kazakov, Swadheen Dubey, Anna Bychek, Uwe Sterr, Marcin Bober, M. Zawada	2022	4
6	Transportable clock laser system with an instability of 1.6 × 10⁻¹⁶ Optics Letters ·Sofia Herbers, Sebastian Häfner, Sören Dörscher, Tim Lücke, Uwe Sterr, Christian Lisdat	2022	27
7	Blackbody radiation shift in strontium lattice clocks revisited Physical Review Research ·Christian Lisdat, Sören Dörscher, Ingo Nosske, Uwe Sterr	2021	19
8	Optical frequency ratio of a ¹⁷¹Yb⁺ single-ion clock and a ⁸⁷Sr lattice clock Metrologia ·Sören Dörscher, Nils Huntemann, R. Schwarz, R. Lange, Erik Benkler, B. Lipphardt, Uwe Sterr, E. Peik, Christian Lisdat	2020	37
9	Dynamical decoupling of laser phase noise in compound atomic clocks Communications Physics ·Sören Dörscher, Ali Al-Masoudi, Marcin Bober, R. Schwarz, Richard Hobson, Uwe Sterr, Christian Lisdat	2020	17
10	Simple and compact diode laser system stabilized to Doppler-broadened iodine lines at 633 nm Applied Optics ·Florian F. Krause, Erik Benkler, Christian Nölleke, P. Leisching, Uwe Sterr	2020	5
11	Demonstration of a Timescale Based on a Stable Optical Carrier Physical Review Letters ·William R. Milner, John Robinson, Colin J. Kennedy, Tobias Bothwell, Dhruv Kedar, Dan Matei, Thomas Legero, Uwe Sterr, F. Riehle, Holly Leopardi, Tara M. Fortier, Jeffrey A. Sherman, Judah Levine, Jian Yao, Jun Ye, E. Oelker	2019	51
12	Demonstration of 4.8 × 10−17 stability at 1 s for two independent optical clocks Nature Photonics ·E. Oelker, Ross B. Hutson, Colin J. Kennedy, Lindsay Sonderhouse, Tobias Bothwell, Akihisa Goban, Dhruv Kedar, Christian Sanner, John Robinson, G. Edward Marti, Dan Matei, Thomas Legero, Michele Giunta, Ronald Holzwarth, F. Riehle, Uwe Sterr, J. Ye Hit paper breakdown →	2019	288
13	Crystalline optical cavity at 4 K with thermal-noise-limited instability and ultralow drift Optica ·John Robinson, E. Oelker, William R. Milner, Wei Zhang, Thomas Legero, Dan Matei, F. Riehle, Uwe Sterr, Jun Ye	2019	108
14	Transportable Optical Lattice Clock with7×10−17Uncertainty Physical Review Letters ·Silvio Koller, Jacopo Grotti, S. Vogt, Ali Al-Masoudi, Sören Dörscher, Sebastian Häfner, Uwe Sterr, Christian Lisdat	2017	152
15	Inter-satellite and satellite-ground laser communication links based on homodyne BPSK Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Mark Gregory, F. Heine, Hartmut Kämpfner, Robert Lange, Karen Saucke, Uwe Sterr, Rolf Meyer	2010	17
16	5.6 Gbps optical intersatellite communication link Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Berry Smutny, Hartmut Kaempfner, Gerd Muehlnikel, Uwe Sterr, B. Wandernoth, F. Heine, Ulrich Hildebrand, Daniel Dallmann, Martin Reinhardt, Axel Freier, Robert Lange, Knut Boehmer, Thomas Feldhaus, Juergen Mueller, Andreas Weichert, Peter Greulich, S. Seel, Rolf Meyer, Reinhard H. Czichy	2009	111
17	Optical frequency transfer via 146 km fiber link with 10^−19 relative accuracy Optics Letters ·Gesine Grosche, Osama Terra, Katharina Predehl, Ronald Holzwarth, B. Lipphardt, F. Vogt, Uwe Sterr, H. Schnatz	2009	114
18	Diode laser with 1 Hz linewidth Optics Letters ·Hardo Stoehr, F. Mensing, J. Helmcke, Uwe Sterr	2006	112
19	Calibration of a Shack–Hartmann sensor for absolute measurements of wavefronts Applied Optics ·А. К. Чернышов, Uwe Sterr, F. Riehle, J. Helmcke, Johannes Pfund	2005	48
20	Determination of the xenon 6s[3/2]_2–6s′[1/2]_0 clock frequency by interferometric wavelength measurements Optics Letters ·Uwe Sterr, A. Bard, Craig J. Sansonetti, S. L. Rolston, J. D. Gillaspy	1995	4

About Uwe Sterr

Uwe Sterr is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Spectroscopy, Aerospace Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, having authored 131 papers that have together received 5.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Frequency and Time Standards (96 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (73 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (44 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (42 papers), Space Satellite Systems and Control (12 papers), Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (12 papers), Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation (11 papers) and Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (4.5k citations), Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (353 citations), Spectroscopy (369 citations), Ocean Engineering (310 citations) and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (1.1k citations). Uwe Sterr has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include F. Riehle, Thomas Legero, Christian Lisdat, Christian Grebing, J. Helmcke, Sebastian Häfner, John Robinson, Dan Matei, Michael J. Martin and T. Keßler. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review A, Applied Physics B, Physical Review Letters, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and Optics Letters.

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