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Optical Path Length

Optical Path Length is the product of the geometric length of a light path and the refractive index of the medium through which the light propagates, serving as a measure of the phase shift accumulated by a light wave relative to its propagation in vacuum.

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Geometrical Theory of Diffraction*

Joseph B. Keller · Journal of the Optical Society of America · 1962 · 3K citations

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Light Trapping in Silicon Nanowire Solar Cells

Erik C. Garnett, Peidong Yang · Nano Letters · 2010 · 2.2K citations

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Parametric Interaction of Focused Gaussian Light Beams

G. D. Boyd, D. A. Kleinman · Journal of Applied Physics · 1968 · 1.7K citations

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Quantum random walks

Yakir Aharonov, L. Davidovich, N. Zagury · Physical Review A · 1993 · 1.6K citations

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Digital holographic microscopy: a noninvasive contrast imaging technique allowing quantitative visualization of living cells with subwavelength axial accuracy

Pierre Marquet, Benjamin Rappaz, Pierre J. Magistretti et al. · Optics Letters · 2005 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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  1. GP
    Gabriel Popescu

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    9 publications · 998 citations

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  2. TC
    T. Catunda

    Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

    8 publications · 292 citations

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  3. FK
    Frank K. Tittel

    Rice University, United States

    8 publications · 412 citations

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    David T. Delpy

    University College London, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 2.1K citations

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  5. EO
    Eiji Okada

    Keio University, Japan

    8 publications · 1.3K citations

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    22 h-index

    75 publications

    11.5K citations

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    20 h-index

    144 publications

    6.8K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    19 h-index

    67 publications

    2.8K citations

  4. University of Southampton

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    16 h-index

    52 publications

    2.7K citations

  5. Tsinghua University

    Beijing, China

    15 h-index

    54 publications

    4.1K citations

  6. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    14 h-index

    47 publications

    3.1K citations

  7. University of Central Florida

    Orlando, United States

    14 h-index

    42 publications

    1.4K citations

  8. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    13 h-index

    52 publications

    7.3K citations

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  1. Optics Express

    127 publications · 6K citations

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  2. Applied Optics

    182 publications · 8.3K citations

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  3. Optics Letters

    112 publications · 6.8K citations

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  4. Applied Physics Letters

    58 publications · 3.7K citations

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  5. Journal of Applied Physics

    51 publications · 5.4K citations

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