The Most Cited Articles in Optics Letters
To highlight some of the seminal research published in Optics Letters, below are the most-cited articles in the history of the journal. They are free to access throughout 2017. (Citation counts are from Clarivate Analytics as of January 4, 2017.)
1. Observation of a single-beam gradient force optical trap for dielectric particles
A. Ashkin, J. M. Dziedzic, J. E. Bjorkholm, and Steven Chu
Opt. Lett. 11(5) 288-290 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 3345
2. All-silica single-mode optical fiber with photonic crystal cladding
J. C. Knight, T. A. Birks, P. St. J. Russell, and D. M. Atkin
Opt. Lett. 21(19) 1547-1549 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 1831
3. Endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fiber
T. A. Birks, J. C. Knight, and P. St. J. Russell
Opt. Lett. 22(13) 961-963 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 1830
Stefan W. Hell and Jan Wichmann
Opt. Lett. 19(11) 780-782 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 1715
Jinendra K. Ranka, Robert S. Windeler, and Andrew J. Stentz
Opt. Lett. 25(1) 25-27 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 1607
6. Writing waveguides in glass with a femtosecond laser
K. M. Davis, K. Miura, N. Sugimoto, and K. Hirao
Opt. Lett. 21(21) 1729-1731 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 1559
7. Optical image encryption based on input plane and Fourier plane random encoding
Philippe Refregier and Bahram Javidi
Opt. Lett. 20(7) 767-769 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 1190
8. High-sensitivity, single-beam n2 measurements
M. Sheik-bahae, A. A. Said, and E. W. Van Stryland
Opt. Lett. 14(17) 955-957 (1989)
TOTAL CITES: 1162
9. Formation of Bragg gratings in optical fibers by a transverse holographic method
G. Meltz, W. W. Morey, and W. H. Glenn
Opt. Lett. 14(15) 823-825 (1989)
TOTAL CITES: 1139
10. Phase-shifting digital holography
Ichirou Yamaguchi and Tong Zhang
Opt. Lett. 22(16) 1268-1270 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 1067
11. Negative index of refraction in optical metamaterials
Vladimir M. Shalaev, Wenshan Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan, Andrey K. Sarychev, Vladimir P. Drachev, and Alexander V. Kildishev
Opt. Lett. 30(24) 3356-3358 (2005)
TOTAL CITES: 1067
12. Coupled-resonator optical waveguide:?a proposal and analysis
Amnon Yariv, Yong Xu, Reginald K. Lee, and Axel Scherer
Opt. Lett. 24(11) 711-713 (1999)
TOTAL CITES: 1045
13. 60-fsec pulse generation from a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser
D. E. Spence, P. N. Kean, and W. Sibbett
Opt. Lett. 16(1) 42-44 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 965
14. Three-dimensional microfabrication with two-photon-absorbed photopolymerization
Shoji Maruo, Osamu Nakamura, and Satoshi Kawata
Opt. Lett. 22(2) 132-134 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 935
15. Self-channeling of high-peak-power femtosecond laser pulses in air
A. Braun, G. Korn, X. Liu, D. Du, J. Squier, and G. Mourou
Opt. Lett. 20(1) 73-75 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 910
16. Guiding and confining light in void nanostructure
Vilson R. Almeida, Qianfan Xu, Carlos A. Barrios, and Michal Lipson
Opt. Lett. 29(11) 1209-1211 (2004)
TOTAL CITES: 909
17. Imaging with terahertz waves
B. B. Hu and M. C. Nuss
Opt. Lett. 20(16) 1716-1718 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 817
18. Giant Kerr nonlinearities obtained by electromagnetically induced transparency
H. Schmidt and A. Imamoglu
Opt. Lett. 21(23) 1936-1938 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 807
Johannes F. de Boer, Barry Cense, B. Hyle Park, Mark C. Pierce, Guillermo J. Tearney, and Brett E. Bouma
Opt. Lett. 28(21) 2067-2069 (2003)
TOTAL CITES: 788
20. Discrete self-focusing in nonlinear arrays of coupled waveguides
D. N. Christodoulides and R. I. Joseph
Opt. Lett. 13(9) 794-796 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 787
21. Electromagnetic energy transport via linear chains of silver nanoparticles
M. Quinten, A. Leitner, J. R. Krenn, and F. R. Aussenegg
Opt. Lett. 23(17) 1331-1333 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 754
22. Three-dimensional optical storage inside transparent materials
E. N. Glezer, M. Milosavljevic, L. Huang, R. J. Finlay, T.-H. Her, J. P. Callan, and E. Mazur
Opt. Lett. 21(24) 2023-2025 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 737
23. Compression of high-energy laser pulses below 5 fs
M. Nisoli, S. De Silvestri, O. Svelto, R. Szipöcs, K. Ferencz, Ch. Spielmann, S. Sartania, and F. Krausz
Opt. Lett. 22(8) 522-524 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 733
24. Theory of the soliton self-frequency shift
J. P. Gordon
Opt. Lett. 11(10) 662-664 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 715
25. Discovery of the soliton self-frequency shift
F. M. Mitschke and L. F. Mollenauer
Opt. Lett. 11(10) 659-661 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 714
26. Reconstruction of an object from the modulus of its Fourier transform
J. R. Fienup
Opt. Lett. 3(1) 27-29 (1978)
TOTAL CITES: 703
27. Sub-Poissonian photon statistics in resonance fluorescence
L. Mandel
Opt. Lett. 4(7) 205-207 (1979)
TOTAL CITES: 699
28. Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction of ultrashort optical pulses
C. Iaconis and I. A. Walmsley
Opt. Lett. 23(10) 792-794 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 699
29. Optical fiber long-period grating sensors
Vikram Bhatia and Ashish M. Vengsarkar
Opt. Lett. 21(9) 692-694 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 688
30. In vivo ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography
W. Drexler, U. Morgner, F. X. Kärtner, C. Pitris, S. A. Boppart, X. D. Li, E. P. Ippen, and J. G. Fujimoto
Opt. Lett. 24(17) 1221-1223 (1999)
TOTAL CITES: 671
31. Compression of optical pulses to six femtoseconds by using cubic phase compensation
R. L. Fork, C. H. Brito Cruz, P. C. Becker, and C. V. Shank
Opt. Lett. 12(7) 483-485 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 662
32. Generation of optical phase singularities by computer-generated holograms
N. R. Heckenberg, R. McDuff, C. P. Smith, and A. G. White
Opt. Lett. 17(3) 221-223 (1992)
TOTAL CITES: 648
33. Self-pumped, continuous-wave phase conjugator using internal reflection
Jack Feinberg
Opt. Lett. 7(10) 486-488 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 638
34. Micromachining bulk glass by use of femtosecond laser pulses with nanojoule energy
Chris B. Schaffer, André Brodeur, José F. García, and Eric Mazur
Opt. Lett. 26(2) 93-95 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 628
Johannes F. de Boer, Thomas E. Milner, Martin J. C. van Gemert, and J. Stuart Nelson
Opt. Lett. 22(12) 934-936 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 617
36. Two-photon absorption and broadband optical limiting with bis-donor stilbenes
J. E. Ehrlich, X. L. Wu, I.-Y. S. Lee, Z.-Y. Hu, H. Röckel, S. R. Marder, and J. W. Perry
Opt. Lett. 22(24) 1843-1845 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 611
37. Negative dispersion using pairs of prisms
R. L. Fork, O. E. Martinez, and J. P. Gordon
Opt. Lett. 9(5) 150-152 (1984)
TOTAL CITES: 610
38. Nonlinear-optical loop mirror
N. J. Doran and David Wood
Opt. Lett. 13(1) 56-58 (1988)
TOTAL CITES: 610
39. Random walk of coherently amplified solitons in optical fiber transmission
J. P. Gordon and H. A. Haus
Opt. Lett. 11(10) 665-667 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 606
I. Hartl, X. D. Li, C. Chudoba, R. K. Ghanta, T. H. Ko, J. G. Fujimoto, J. K. Ranka, and R. S. Windeler
Opt. Lett. 26(9) 608-610 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 593
41. Coherent trapping of atomic populations
H. R. Gray, R. M. Whitley, and C. R. Stroud
Opt. Lett. 3(6) 218-220 (1978)
TOTAL CITES: 592
42. Ultimate Q of optical microsphere resonators
M. L. Gorodetsky, A. A. Savchenkov, and V. S. Ilchenko
Opt. Lett. 21(7) 453-455 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 591
43. Frequency-modulation spectroscopy: a new method for measuring weak absorptions and dispersions
Gary C. Bjorklund
Opt. Lett. 5(1) 15-17 (1980)
TOTAL CITES: 583
44. Digital holography for quantitative phase-contrast imaging
Etienne Cuche, Frédéric Bevilacqua, and Christian Depeursinge
Opt. Lett. 24(5) 291-293 (1999)
TOTAL CITES: 578
45. Simple technique for measurements of pulsed Gaussian-beam spot sizes
J. M. Liu
Opt. Lett. 7(5) 196-198 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 577
Pierre Marquet, Benjamin Rappaz, Pierre J. Magistretti, Etienne Cuche, Yves Emery, Tristan Colomb, and Christian Depeursinge
Opt. Lett. 30(5) 468-470 (2005)
TOTAL CITES: 572
47. Highly birefringent photonic crystal fibers
A. Ortigosa-Blanch, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, J. Arriaga, B. J. Mangan, T. A. Birks, and P. St. J. Russell
Opt. Lett. 25(18) 1325-1327 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 567
48. Guiding of a one-dimensional optical beam with nanometer diameter
Junichi Takahara, Suguru Yamagishi, Hiroaki Taki, Akihiro Morimoto, and Tetsuro Kobayashi
Opt. Lett. 22(7) 475-477 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 562
49. Accelerating finite energy Airy beams
Georgios A. Siviloglou and Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Opt. Lett. 32(8) 979-981 (2007)
TOTAL CITES: 558
50. Supercontinuum generation in tapered fibers
T. A. Birks, W. J. Wadsworth, and P. St. J. Russell
Opt. Lett. 25(19) 1415-1417 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 555
51. 77-fs pulse generation from a stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber ring laser
K. Tamura, E. P. Ippen, H. A. Haus, and L. E. Nelson
Opt. Lett. 18(13) 1080-1082 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 549
52. Large second-order nonlinearity in poled fused silica
R. A. Myers, N. Mukherjee, and S. R. J. Brueck
Opt. Lett. 16(22) 1732-1734 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 547
53. Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner
N. B. Simpson, K. Dholakia, L. Allen, and M. J. Padgett
Opt. Lett. 22(1) 52-54 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 539
54. Low-threshold lasing at the edge of a photonic stop band in cholesteric liquid crystals
V. I. Kopp, B. Fan, H. K. M. Vithana, and A. Z. Genack
Opt. Lett. 23(21) 1707-1709 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 526
55. Negative-index metamaterial at 780 nm wavelength
G. Dolling, M. Wegener, C. M. Soukoulis, and S. Linden
Opt. Lett. 32(1) 53-55 (2007)
TOTAL CITES: 526
56. Phase-matched excitation of whispering-gallery-mode resonances by a fiber taper
J. C. Knight, G. Cheung, F. Jacques, and T. A. Birks
Opt. Lett. 22(15) 1129-1131 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 524
57. Optical encryption by double-random phase encoding in the fractional Fourier domain
G. Unnikrishnan, J. Joseph, and K. Singh
Opt. Lett. 25(12) 887-889 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 521
59. Three-dimensional optical data storage in refractive media by two-photon point excitation
James H. Strickler and Watt W. Webb
Opt. Lett. 16(22) 1780-1782 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 509
60. Nanotaper for compact mode conversion
Vilson R. Almeida, Roberto R. Panepucci, and Michal Lipson
Opt. Lett. 28(15) 1302-1304 (2003)
TOTAL CITES: 498
61. Dye laser pumped by Nd:YAG laser pulses frequency doubled in a glass optical fiber
U. Österberg and W. Margulis
Opt. Lett. 11(8) 516-518 (1986)
TOTAL CITES: 492
62. Multiplexed fiber Bragg grating strain-sensor system with a fiber Fabry–Perot wavelength filter
A. D. Kersey, T. A. Berkoff, and W. W. Morey
Opt. Lett. 18(16) 1370-1372 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 480
63. In vivo retinal imaging by optical coherence tomography
E. A. Swanson, J. A. Izatt, M. R. Hee, D. Huang, C. P. Lin, J. S. Schuman, C. A. Puliafito, and J. G. Fujimoto
Opt. Lett. 18(21) 1864-1866 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 475
64. Intense terahertz pulses by four-wave rectification in air
D. J. Cook and R. M. Hochstrasser
Opt. Lett. 25(16) 1210-1212 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 467
65. Method of obtaining optical sectioning by using structured light in a conventional microscope
M. A. A. Neil, R. Juškaitis, and T. Wilson
Opt. Lett. 22(24) 1905-1907 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 465
Dieter H. Jundt
Opt. Lett. 22(20) 1553-1555 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 462
67. Self-focusing and self-defocusing by cascaded second-order effects in KTP
R. DeSalvo, D. J. Hagan, M. Sheik-Bahae, G. Stegeman, E. W. Van Stryland, and H. Vanherzeele
Opt. Lett. 17(1) 28-30 (1992)
TOTAL CITES: 462
68. Surface-mediated enhancement of optical phase conjugation in metal colloids
D. Ricard, Ph. Roussignol, and Chr. Flytzanis
Opt. Lett. 10(10) 511-513 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 459
69. Degenerate four-wave mixing in absorbing media
R. L. Abrams and R. C. Lind
Opt. Lett. 2(4) 94-96 (1978)
TOTAL CITES: 458
70. Phase noise in photonic communications systems using linear amplifiers
J. P. Gordon and L. F. Mollenauer
Opt. Lett. 15(23) 1351-1353 (1990)
TOTAL CITES: 455
71. Noise in homodyne and heterodyne detection
Horace P. Yuen and Vincent W. S. Chan
Opt. Lett. 8(3) 177-179 (1983)
TOTAL CITES: 447
72. Ge-on-Si laser operating at room temperature
Jifeng Liu, Xiaochen Sun, Rodolfo Camacho-Aguilera, Lionel C. Kimerling, and Jurgen Michel
Opt. Lett. 35(5) 679-681 (2010)
TOTAL CITES: 443
73. Shift of whispering-gallery modes in microspheres by protein adsorption
S. Arnold, M. Khoshsima, I. Teraoka, S. Holler, and F. Vollmer
Opt. Lett. 28(4) 272-274 (2003)
TOTAL CITES: 438
U. Keller, D. A. B. Miller, G. D. Boyd, T. H. Chiu, J. F. Ferguson, and M. T. Asom
Opt. Lett. 17(7) 505-507 (1992)
TOTAL CITES: 436
75. Angle-multiplexed storage of 5000 holograms in lithium niobate
Fai H. Mok
Opt. Lett. 18(11) 915-917 (1993)
TOTAL CITES: 433
Joseph A. Izatt, Manish D. Kulkarni, Siavash Yazdanfar, Jennifer K. Barton, and Ashley J. Welch
Opt. Lett. 22(18) 1439-1441 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 423
77. Interaction forces among solitons in optical fibers
J. P. Gordon
Opt. Lett. 8(11) 596-598 (1983)
TOTAL CITES: 422
78. Optical vortex trapping of particles
K. T. Gahagan and G. A. Swartzlander
Opt. Lett. 21(11) 827-829 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 419
P. B. Corkum, N. H. Burnett, and M. Y. Ivanov
Opt. Lett. 19(22) 1870-1872 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 416
Qianfan Xu, Vilson R. Almeida, Roberto R. Panepucci, and Michal Lipson
Opt. Lett. 29(14) 1626-1628 (2004)
TOTAL CITES: 416
Yonghua Zhao, Zhongping Chen, Christopher Saxer, Shaohua Xiang, Johannes F. de Boer, and J. Stuart Nelson
Opt. Lett. 25(2) 114-116 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 411
82. Near-field scanning optical microscope with a metallic probe tip
Yasushi Inouye and Satoshi Kawata
Opt. Lett. 19(3) 159-161 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 410
83. Monolithic, unidirectional single-mode Nd:YAG ring laser
Thomas J. Kane and Robert L. Byer
Opt. Lett. 10(2) 65-67 (1985)
TOTAL CITES: 407
T. Wilhelm, J. Piel, and E. Riedle
Opt. Lett. 22(19) 1494-1496 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 405
85. Optical trapping of metallic Rayleigh particles
Karel Svoboda and Steven M. Block
Opt. Lett. 19(13) 930-932 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 401
M. D. Perry, D. Pennington, B. C. Stuart, G. Tietbohl, J. A. Britten, C. Brown, S. Herman, B. Golick, M. Kartz, J. Miller, H. T. Powell, M. Vergino, and V. Yanovsky
Opt. Lett. 24(3) 160-162 (1999)
TOTAL CITES: 395
87. Chirped multilayer coatings for broadband dispersion control in femtosecond lasers
Robert Szipöcs, Kárpát Ferencz, Christian Spielmann, and Ferenc Krausz
Opt. Lett. 19(3) 201-203 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 394
88. General procedure for the analysis of Er3+ cross sections
W. J. Miniscalco and R. S. Quimby
Opt. Lett. 16(4) 258-260 (1991)
TOTAL CITES: 393
89. Infrared photosensitivity in silica glasses exposed to femtosecond laser pulses
D. Homoelle, S. Wielandy, Alexander L. Gaeta, N. F. Borrelli, and Charlene Smith
Opt. Lett. 24(18) 1311-1313 (1999)
TOTAL CITES: 391
90. Dynamic spatial replenishment of femtosecond pulses propagating in air
M. Mlejnek, E. M. Wright, and J. V. Moloney
Opt. Lett. 23(5) 382-384 (1998)
TOTAL CITES: 390
91. Fabrication of ultralow-loss Si/SiO2 waveguides by roughness reduction
Kevin K. Lee, Desmond R. Lim, Lionel C. Kimerling, Jangho Shin, and Franco Cerrina
Opt. Lett. 26(23) 1888-1890 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 390
92. Scanning coherent anti-Stokes Raman microscope
M. D. Duncan, J. Reintjes, and T. J. Manuccia
Opt. Lett. 7(8) 350-352 (1982)
TOTAL CITES: 388
93. Femtosecond laser-assisted three-dimensional microfabrication in silica
Andrius Marcinkevičius, Saulius Juodkazis, Mitsuru Watanabe, Masafumi Miwa, Shigeki Matsuo, Hiroaki Misawa, and Junji Nishii
Opt. Lett. 26(5) 277-279 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 385
94. Single-mode operation of a coiled multimode fiber amplifier
Jeffrey P. Koplow, Dahv A. V. Kliner, and Lew Goldberg
Opt. Lett. 25(7) 442-444 (2000)
TOTAL CITES: 384
95. Optical coherence tomography using a frequency-tunable optical source
S. R. Chinn, E. A. Swanson, and J. G. Fujimoto
Opt. Lett. 22(5) 340-342 (1997)
TOTAL CITES: 384
96. Two-photon absorption and optical-limiting properties of novel organic compounds
Guang S. He, Gen C. Xu, Paras N. Prasad, Bruce A. Reinhardt, Jay C. Bhatt, and Ann G. Dillard
Opt. Lett. 20(5) 435-437 (1995)
TOTAL CITES: 382
97. Conical emission from self-guided femtosecond pulses in air
E. T. J. Nibbering, P. F. Curley, G. Grillon, B. S. Prade, M. A. Franco, F. Salin, and A. Mysyrowicz
Opt. Lett. 21(1) 62-64 (1996)
TOTAL CITES: 381
98. Optical coherence microscopy in scattering media
Joseph A. Izatt, Michael R. Hee, Gabrielle M. Owen, Eric A. Swanson, and James G. Fujimoto
Opt. Lett. 19(8) 590-592 (1994)
TOTAL CITES: 379
99. Optical coherence-domain reflectometry: a new optical evaluation technique
Robert C. Youngquist, Sally Carr, and D. E. N. Davies
Opt. Lett. 12(3) 158-160 (1987)
TOTAL CITES: 378
Vasilis Ntziachristos and Ralph Weissleder
Opt. Lett. 26(12) 893-895 (2001)
TOTAL CITES: 377
100. Double random-phase encoding in the Fresnel domain
Guohai Situ and Jingjuan Zhang
Opt. Lett. 29(14) 1584-1586 (2004)
TOTAL CITES: 377