JOSA B's 30 Most Cited Articles (As of 5 February 2014)

Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSA B) has published some of the most eminent optics and photonics research in the field.

To highlight the key research from the journal, we asked Thomson Reuters, an authoritative aggregator of journal articles, to compile a list of the 30 most cited articles from J. Opt. Soc. Am. B which are listed below. They will be free to access throughout 2014.

Source: Thomson Reuters. Citing Years: 1984-2012

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Far-infrared time-domain spectroscopy with terahertz beams of dielectrics and semiconductors

D. Grischkowsky, Søren Keiding, Martin van Exter, Ch. Fattinger

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 7, 2006-2015 (1990)

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Photonic band-gap structures

E. Yablonovitch

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 10, 283-295 (1993)

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Quasi-phase-matched optical parametric oscillators in bulk periodically poled LiNbO3

L. E. Myers, R. C. Eckardt, M. M. Fejer, R. L. Byer, W. R. Bosenberg, and J. W. Pierce

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 12, 2102-2116 (1995)

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Laser cooling below the doppler limit by polarization gradients—simple theoretical-models

J. Dalibard and C. Cohen-Tannoudji

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6, 2023-2045 (1989)

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New nonlinear-optical crystal: LiB3O5

Chuangtian Chen, Yicheng Wu, Aidong Jiang, Bochang Wu, Guiming You, Rukang Li, and Shujie Lin

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6, 616-621 (1989)

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Spectroscopic and laser characteristics of Ti:Al2O3

P. F. Moulton

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 3, 125-133 (1986)

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Studies of multiphoton production of vacuum-ultraviolet radiation in the rare gases

A. McPherson, G. Gibson, H. Jara, U. Johann, T. S. Luk, I. A. McIntyre, K. Boyer, and C. K. Rhodes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 4, 595-601 (1987)

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Potassium titanyl phosphate: properties and new applications

John D. Bierlein and Herman Vanherzeele

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6, 622-633 (1989)

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Linear techniques of phase measurement by femtosecond spectral interferometry for applications in spectroscopy

L. Lepetit, G. Chériaux, and M. Joffre

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 12, 2467-2474 (1995)

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Optical nonlinearities of small metal particles: surface-mediated resonance and quantum size effects

F. Hache, D. Ricard, and C. Flytzanis

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 3, 1647-1655 (1986)

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Ablation of metals by ultrashort laser pulses

S. Nolte, C. Momma, H. Jacobs, A. Tünnermann, B. N. Chichkov, B. Wellegehausen, and H. Welling

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14, 2716-2722 (1997)

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Second-harmonic generation and absorption studies of polymer—dye films oriented by corona-onset poling at elevated temperatures

M. A. Mortazavi, A. Knoesen, S. T. Kowel, B. G. Higgins, and A. Dienes

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6, 733-741 (1989)

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High-resolution femtosecond pulse shaping

A. M. Weiner, J. P. Heritage, and E. M. Kirschner

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 5, 1563-1572 (1988)

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Monte Carlo wave-function method in quantum optics

Klaus Mølmer, Yvan Castin, and Jean Dalibard

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 10, 524-538 (1993)

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Absorption and intensity-dependent photoluminescence measurements on CdSe quantum dots: assignment of the first electronic transitions

A. I. Ekimov, F. Hache, M. C. Schanne-Klein, D. Ricard, C. Flytzanis, I. A. Kudryavtsev, T. V. Yazeva, A. V. Rodina, and Al. L. Efros

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 10, 100-107 (1993)

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Bright, dark, and gray spatial soliton states in photorefractive media

D. N. Christodoulides and M. I. Carvalho

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 12, 1628-1633 (1995)

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Orientationally enhanced photorefractive effect in polymers

W. E. Moerner, S. M. Silence, F. Hache, and G. C. Bjorklund

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 11, 320-330 (1994)

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New results on optical phase conjugation in semiconductor-doped glasses

P. Roussignol, D. Ricard, J. Lukasik, and C. Flytzanis

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 4, 5-13 (1987)

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Dressed-atom approach to atomic motion in laser light: the dipole force revisited

J. Dalibard and C. Cohen-Tannoudji

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2, 1707-1720 (1985)

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Sensitivity of grating couplers as integrated-optical chemical sensors

K. Tiefenthaler and W. Lukosz

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6, 209-220 (1989)

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Compression of optical pulses chirped by self-phase modulation in fibers

W. J. Tomlinson, R. H. Stolen, and C. V. Shank

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 1, 139-149 (1984)

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Q-switching stability limits of continuous-wave passive mode locking

C. Hönninger, R. Paschotta, F. Morier-Genoud, M. Moser, and U. Keller

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16, 46-56 (1999)

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Laser ionization of noble gases by Coulomb-barrier suppression

S. Augst, D. D. Meyerhofer, D. Strickland, and S. L. Chint

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 8, 858-867 (1991)

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Structures for additive pulse mode locking

H. A. Haus, J. G. Fujimoto, and E. P. Ippen

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 8, 2068-2076 (1991)

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Coherent states, squeezed fluctuations, and the SU(2) and SU(1,1) groups in quantum-optics applications

K. Wódkiewicz and J. H. Eberly

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2, 458-466 (1985)