Vela Mbele

871 total citations · 1 hit paper
3 papers, 633 citations indexed

About

Vela Mbele is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Vela Mbele has authored 3 papers receiving a total of 633 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 3 papers in Spectroscopy and 0 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Vela Mbele's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (3 papers), Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (3 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (1 paper). Vela Mbele is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (3 papers), Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (3 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (1 paper). Vela Mbele collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and India. Vela Mbele's co-authors include Scott A. Diddams, L. Hollberg, Vladislav Gerginov, Carol E. Tanner, Tara M. Fortier, J. E. Stalnaker, Andrew M. Weiner, Phillip J. MacQueen, Cynthia S. Froning and Steve Osterman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review A and Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE.

In The Last Decade

Vela Mbele

3 papers receiving 599 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.

Molecular fingerprinting with the resolved modes of a femtosecond laser frequency comb

2007 566 citations Scott A. Diddams, L. Hollberg et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vela Mbele United States	3	569	420	215	44	19	3	633
Marion Jacquey France	10	603 1.1×	284 0.7×	224 1.0×	33 0.8×	15 0.8×	18	645
Matthew S. Kirchner United States	8	904 1.6×	756 1.8×	200 0.9×	94 2.1×	13 0.7×	21	1.1k
F. Benabid United Kingdom	7	503 0.9×	595 1.4×	137 0.6×	20 0.5×	13 0.7×	14	715
W. R. Trutna United States	11	436 0.8×	613 1.5×	222 1.0×	36 0.8×	32 1.7×	21	763
Abijith S. Kowligy United States	15	609 1.1×	462 1.1×	163 0.8×	28 0.6×	35 1.8×	32	674
Gabriel Ycas United States	11	615 1.1×	494 1.2×	256 1.2×	24 0.5×	19 1.0×	29	690
Benoît Debord France	15	555 1.0×	954 2.3×	105 0.5×	58 1.3×	20 1.1×	55	1.0k
James A. Gupta Canada	9	181 0.3×	269 0.6×	179 0.8×	30 0.7×	20 1.1×	29	357
A. Hariharan United States	10	612 1.1×	256 0.6×	88 0.4×	29 0.7×	19 1.0×	30	692
Ticijana Ban Croatia	14	564 1.0×	170 0.4×	279 1.3×	27 0.6×	4 0.2×	53	669

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vela Mbele

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3 of 3 papers shown

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Stalnaker, J. E., Vela Mbele, Vladislav Gerginov, et al.. (2010). Femtosecond frequency comb measurement of absolute frequencies and hyperfine coupling constants in cesium vapor. Physical Review A. 81(4). 46 indexed citations

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Diddams, Scott A., L. Hollberg, & Vela Mbele. (2007). Molecular fingerprinting with the resolved modes of a femtosecond laser frequency comb. Nature. 445(7128). 627–630. 566 indexed citations breakdown →

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Osterman, Steve, Scott A. Diddams, Matthew Beasley, et al.. (2007). A proposed laser frequency comb-based wavelength reference for high-resolution spectroscopy. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 21 indexed citations

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