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Gerd Leuchs

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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Quantum Information and CryptographyQuantum optics and atomic interactionsQuantum Mechanics and ApplicationsOrbital Angular Momentum in OpticsLaser-Matter Interactions and Applications

Gerd Leuchs works in Quantum Information and Cryptography, Quantum optics and atomic interactions, Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics, Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications. Recorded institutional associations include University of Ottawa, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.

885Publications
27,655Citations
83H-index

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Selected research works

Up to 100 highly cited works; DOI links open the original research. Counts reflect the collected record, not real-time citation totals.

  1. Sharper Focus for a Radially Polarized Light Beam

    2003 · 2,125 citations

  2. Focusing light to a tighter spot

    2000 · 837 citations

  3. Colloquium: The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox: From concepts to applications

    2009 · 660 citations

  4. From transverse angular momentum to photonic wheels

    2015 · 639 citations

  5. High-dimensional intracity quantum cryptography with structured photons

    2017 · 532 citations

  6. Observation of optical polarization Möbius strips

    2015 · 489 citations

  7. 30 years of squeezed light generation

    2016 · 442 citations

  8. A generator for unique quantum random numbers based on vacuum states

    2010 · 418 citations

  9. Continuous Variable Quantum Cryptography: Beating the 3 dB Loss Limit

    2002 · 384 citations

  10. Generation of Continuous Variable Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement via the Kerr Nonlinearity in an Optical Fiber

    2001 · 375 citations

  11. Quantum Information with Continuous Variables of Atoms and Light

    2007 · 365 citations

  12. Quantum information processing and communication

    2005 · 352 citations

  13. Nonlinear and quantum optics with whispering gallery resonators

    2016 · 325 citations

  14. Naturally Phase-Matched Second-Harmonic Generation in a Whispering-Gallery-Mode Resonator

    2010 · 281 citations

  15. Transverse Angular Momentum and Geometric Spin Hall Effect of Light

    2009 · 280 citations

  16. Polarization squeezing and continuous-variable polarization entanglement

    2002 · 279 citations

  17. Device Calibration Impacts Security of Quantum Key Distribution

    2011 · 263 citations

  18. Nanointerferometric amplitude and phase reconstruction of tightly focused vector beams

    2013 · 260 citations

  19. A versatile source of single photons for quantum information processing

    2013 · 249 citations

  20. Compensation-free high-dimensional free-space optical communication using turbulence-resilient vector beams

    2021 · 246 citations

  21. Efficient microwave to optical photon conversion: an electro-optical realization

    2016 · 245 citations

  22. Classical entanglement in polarization metrology

    2014 · 222 citations

  23. The focus of light – theoretical calculation and experimental tomographic reconstruction

    2001 · 211 citations

  24. Quantum−like nonseparable structures in optical beams

    2015 · 205 citations

  25. Classical and quantum properties of cylindrically polarized states of light

    2011 · 202 citations

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