Wim Leemans

20.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
409 papers, 13.9k citations indexed

About

Wim Leemans is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wim Leemans has authored 409 papers receiving a total of 13.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 301 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 199 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 186 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wim Leemans's work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (293 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (141 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (131 papers). Wim Leemans is often cited by papers focused on Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (293 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (141 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (131 papers). Wim Leemans collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Wim Leemans's co-authors include C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, Csaba Tóth, J. van Tilborg, C. G. R. Geddes, C. G. R. Geddes, K. Nakamura, A. J. Gonsalves, Eric Esarey and John R. Cary and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wim Leemans

369 papers receiving 13.4k 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.

Physics of laser-driven plasma-based electron accelerators

2009 1.7k citations E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder et al. profile →
High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding

2004 1.4k citations C. G. R. Geddes, Csaba Tóth et al. profile →
GeV electron beams from a centimetre-scale accelerator

2006 1.2k citations Wim Leemans, A. J. Gonsalves et al. profile →
Multi-GeV Electron Beams from Capillary-Discharge-Guided Subpetawatt Laser Pulses in the Self-Trapping Regime

2014 615 citations Wim Leemans, A. J. Gonsalves et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wim Leemans

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wim Leemans. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wim Leemans based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Wim Leemans. Wim Leemans is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	DYNAMICS OF SELF-INJECTED BUNCHES IN CYLINDRICAL AND CONICAL PLASMA CHANNELS IN LASER-PLASMA ACCELERATION 2025 ·Denys I. Bondar, Wim Leemans, В. А. Маслов, I.N. Onishchenko	0
2	Cryogenic 750-mJ Ti:sapphire amplifier for laser plasma acceleration at a 100-Hz repetition rate 2025 ·Optics Letters ·Timo Eichner, (unknown), Juan B. González‐Díaz, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), L. Winkelmann, Amin Yousefi, Mikhail Pergament, Wim Leemans, Andreas R. Maier, Guido Palmer	0
3	Interacting with Neural Radiance Fields in Immersive Virtual Reality 2023 ·(unknown), (unknown), Susanne Schmidt, (unknown), Wim Leemans, Frank Steinicke	2
4	Energy Compression and Stabilization of Laser-Plasma Accelerators 2022 ·Physical Review Letters ·Á. Ferran Pousa, Ilya Agapov, Sergey Antipov, R. Aßmann, R. Brinkmann, Sören Jalas, Manuel Kirchen, Wim Leemans, Andreas R. Maier, A. Martínez de la Ossa, Jens Osterhoff, Maxence Thévenet	10
5	Laser–solid interaction studies enabled by the new capabilities of the iP2 BELLA PW beamline 2022 ·Physics of Plasmas ·(unknown), Lieselotte Obst-Huebl, Axel Huebl, K. Nakamura, S. S. Bulanov, Sven Steinke, Wim Leemans, (unknown), Tobias Ostermayr, T. Schenkel, A. J. Gonsalves, Jean-Luc Vay, J. van Tilborg, Csaba Tóth, C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, C. G. R. Geddes	14
6	Multi-pass cells for post-compression of ultrashort laser pulses 2022 ·Optica ·Anne‐Lise Viotti, Marcus Seidel, Esmerando Escoto, (unknown), Wim Leemans, Ingmar Hartl, Christoph M. Heyl	101
7	A compact, high resolution energy, and emittance diagnostic for electron beams using active plasma lenses 2020 ·Applied Physics Letters ·Sam Barber, Jianhui Bin, A. J. Gonsalves, (unknown), J. van Tilborg, Sven Steinke, K. Nakamura, (unknown), (unknown), Douglass Schumacher, C. B. Schroeder, C. G. R. Geddes, Wim Leemans, E. Esarey	6
8	Gas density structure of supersonic flows impinged on by thin blades for laser–plasma accelerator targets 2020 ·Physics of Fluids ·Liona Fan-Chiang, Hann-Shin Mao, Hai-En Tsai, Tobias Ostermayr, K. K. Swanson, Sam Barber, Sven Steinke, J. van Tilborg, C. G. R. Geddes, Wim Leemans	11
9	Simulations of plasma channel formation by knife-like nanosecond laser beam 2018 ·Keldysh Institute Preprints ·P. V. Sasorov, N. A. Bobrova, (unknown), G. A. Bagdasarov, A. S. Boldarev, В. А. Гасилов, S. S. Bulanov, A. J. Gonsalves, C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, Wim Leemans, (unknown), (unknown), D. Margarone, (unknown), (unknown)	1
10	FPGA-Based Optical Cavity Phase Stabilization for Coherent Pulse Stacking 2017 ·IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics ·(unknown), Russell Wilcox, J. Byrd, Lawrence Doolittle, Qiang Du, Gang Huang, (unknown), Tong Zhou, Wim Leemans, Almantas Galvanauskas, (unknown), Chuanxiang Tang, Wenhui Huang	1
11	Laser beam coupling with capillary discharge plasma for laser wakefield acceleration applications 2017 ·Physics of Plasmas ·G. A. Bagdasarov, P. V. Sasorov, В. А. Гасилов, A. S. Boldarev, (unknown), C. Benedetti, S. S. Bulanov, A. J. Gonsalves, Hann-Shin Mao, C. B. Schroeder, J. van Tilborg, E. Esarey, Wim Leemans, T. Levato, D. Margarone, G. Korn	22
12	Reflectance characterization of tape-based plasma mirrors 2016 ·Physics of Plasmas ·B. H. Shaw, Sven Steinke, J. van Tilborg, Wim Leemans	30
13	Dynamics and density distributions in a capillary-discharge waveguide with an embedded supersonic jet 2015 ·Journal of Applied Physics ·Nicholas H. Matlis, A. J. Gonsalves, Sven Steinke, J. van Tilborg, Eric Matlis, B. H. Shaw, D. E. Mittelberger, C. G. R. Geddes, Wim Leemans	4
14	Production of Relativistic Electron Bunch with Tunable Current Distribution 2009 ·AIP conference proceedings ·P. Piot, (unknown), (unknown), C. B. Schroeder, Wim Leemans, Eric Esarey	5
15	Stable Electron Beams With Low Absolute Energy Spread From a Laser Wakefield Accelerator \nWith Plasma Density Ramp Controlled Injection 2008 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·C. G. R. Geddes, E. Cormier‐Michel, E. Esarey, Wim Leemans, K. Nakamura, Dmitriy Panasenko, G. R. Plateau, C. B. Schroeder, Csaba Tóth, John R. Cary	0
16	Recent Progress at LBNL on Characterization of Laser Wakefield Accelerated Electron Bunches \nusing Coherent Transition Radiation 2007 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·G. R. Plateau, E. Esarey, C. G. R. Geddes, Wim Leemans, Nicholas H. Matlis, C. B. Schroeder, J. van Tilborg, Csaba Tóth	1
17	Design of an XUV FEL Driven by the Laser-Plasma Accelerator at the LBNL LOASIS Facility 2006 ·Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ·C. B. Schroeder, W.M. Fawley, Eric Esarey, Wim Leemans	4
18	Improvement of electron beam quality in optical injection schemes using negative plasma \ndensity gradients 2005 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·G. Fubiani, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, Wim Leemans	28
19	Temporal Characterization of Femtosecond Laser-Plasma-Accelerated Electron Bunches using \nTHz Radiation 2005 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·J. van Tilborg, C. B. Schroeder, C. Filip, Csaba Tóth, C. G. R. Geddes, G. Fubiani, R. Huber, (unknown), E. Esarey, Wim Leemans	1
20	Simulation of ionization effects for high-density positron drivers in \nfuture plasma wakefield experiments 2003 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·David Bruhwiler, Dimitre Dimitrov, John R. Cary, E. Esarey, Wim Leemans	1

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