W. Lu

8.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
133 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

W. Lu is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Lu has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 52 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 49 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in W. Lu's work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (118 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (49 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (38 papers). W. Lu is often cited by papers focused on Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (118 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (49 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (38 papers). W. Lu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Portugal. W. Lu's co-authors include W. B. Mori, Chengkun Huang, T. Katsouleas, Miaomiao Zhou, C. Joshi, K. A. Marsh, W. B. Mori, F. S. Tsung, Ricardo Fonseca and A. Pak and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

W. Lu

123 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Energy doubling of 42 GeV electrons in a metre-scale plasma wakefield accelerator

2007 444 citations Mark Hogan, Chengkun Huang et al. profile →
Injection and Trapping of Tunnel-Ionized Electrons into Laser-Produced Wakes

2010 389 citations K. A. Marsh, S. F. Martins et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
W. Lu	3.7k	1.8k	1.7k	1.3k	705	133	4.0k
A. J. Gonsalves	3.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	895 0.7×	209 0.3×	97	3.5k
Chengkun Huang	2.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	940 0.7×	634 0.9×	97	2.8k
C. E. Clayton	2.8k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	785 0.6×	358 0.5×	89	3.1k
M. E. Cuneo	2.8k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	899 0.7×	458 0.6×	197	3.8k
J. Vieira	2.8k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	722 0.6×	248 0.4×	113	3.3k
P. Muggli	2.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	767 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	937 1.3×	195	3.0k
D. B. Sinars	3.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	576 0.4×	378 0.5×	139	3.6k
T. A. Mehlhorn	2.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	844 0.5×	594 0.5×	447 0.6×	171	2.9k
C. G. R. Geddes	3.0k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	682 0.5×	127 0.2×	47	3.1k
S. V. Lebedev	2.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	473 0.4×	338 0.5×	185	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Lu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Guo, Zhiyuan, et al.. (2025). Compact dose delivery of laser-accelerated high-energy electron beams toward radiotherapy applications. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. 28(10). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Shuang, Fei Li, Jianfei Hua, et al.. (2024). A Scalable, High-Efficiency, Low-Energy-Spread Laser Wakefield Accelerator Using a Tri-Plateau Plasma Channel. Research. 7. 396–396. 2 indexed citations

Peng, Bo, Chao Feng, Jianfei Hua, et al.. (2023). Generation of Large-Bandwidth High-Power X-Ray Free-Electron-Laser Pulses Using a Hollow-Channel Plasma. Physical Review Applied. 19(5). 1 indexed citations

Hua, Jianfei, et al.. (2023). Compact Polarized X-Ray Source Based on All-Optical Inverse Compton Scattering. Physical Review Applied. 19(1). 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Chaojie, Yipeng Wu, K. A. Marsh, et al.. (2022). Electron Weibel instability induced magnetic fields in optical-field ionized plasmas. Physics of Plasmas. 29(6). 4 indexed citations

Hua, Jianfei, et al.. (2022). High efficiency uniform positron beam loading in a hollow channel plasma wakefield accelerator. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. 25(9). 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Chaojie, Yipeng Wu, K. A. Marsh, et al.. (2022). Mapping the self-generated magnetic fields due to thermal Weibel instability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(50). e2211713119–e2211713119. 7 indexed citations

Zeng, Ming, et al.. (2022). Injection induced by coaxial laser interference in laser wakefield accelerators. Matter and Radiation at Extremes. 7(5). 6 indexed citations

Li, Fei, Xinlu Xu, F. S. Tsung, et al.. (2022). Ultrabright Electron Bunch Injection in a Plasma Wakefield Driven by a Superluminal Flying Focus Electron Beam. Physical Review Letters. 128(17). 174803–174803. 12 indexed citations

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Hong, Wei, Jianfei Hua, Qi Wei, et al.. (2021). Measuring fluence distribution of intense short laser based on the radiochromic effect. Optics Letters. 46(11). 2795–2795.

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Wu, Yipeng, Jianfei Hua, Zheng Zhou, et al.. (2021). Tunable Plasma Linearizer for Compensation of Nonlinear Energy Chirp. Physical Review Applied. 16(2). 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chaojie, Jianfei Hua, Yipeng Wu, et al.. (2020). Measurements of the Growth and Saturation of Electron Weibel Instability in Optical-Field Ionized Plasmas. Physical Review Letters. 125(25). 255001–255001. 19 indexed citations

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Nie, Zan, Chih‐Hao Pai, Jie Zhang, et al.. (2020). Photon deceleration in plasma wakes generates single-cycle relativistic tunable infrared pulses. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2787–2787. 27 indexed citations

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Hua, Jianfei, Tianliang Zhang, Fan Yang, et al.. (2020). Region-of-interest micro-focus computed tomography based on an all-optical inverse Compton scattering source. Matter and Radiation at Extremes. 5(6). 14 indexed citations

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Nie, Zan, Yipeng Wu, Bao Guo, et al.. (2018). Transverse phase space diagnostics for ionization injection in laser plasma acceleration using permanent magnetic quadrupoles. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 60(4). 44007–44007. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chaojie, Y. Wan, Bao Guo, et al.. (2018). Probing plasma wakefields using electron bunches generated from a laser wakefield accelerator. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 60(4). 44013–44013. 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chaojie, C. Joshi, Xinlu Xu, et al.. (2017). Evolution of plasma wakes in density up- and down-ramps. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 60(2). 24003–24003. 6 indexed citations

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Davidson, Asher, Weiming An, F. S. Tsung, et al.. (2014). Implementation of a hybrid particle code with a PIC description in r–z and a gridless description in ϕ into OSIRIS. Journal of Computational Physics. 281. 1063–1077. 49 indexed citations

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Martins, S. F., et al.. (2010). Boosted frame PIC simulations of LWFA: towards the energy frontier. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 1 indexed citations

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Lu, W., Weiming An, Chengkun Huang, et al.. (2009). High Transformer ratio PWFA for Applications on XFELs. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 51. 2 indexed citations

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