Top institutions in the United States for Optoelectronics & Photonics

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Optoelectronics & Photonics?

720 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Optoelectronics & Photonics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.0% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 68 countries in the subfield. 74 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Nokia Bell Labs has the most (29), followed by College of Engineering (24) and California Institute of Technology (24). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

720

1.0% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

10.3% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 68 countries in Optoelectronics & Photonics

Highest-ranked

#360

Fan, Shanhui

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Nokia Bell Labs	29	3	#3	Winzer, Peter J. #7,377
2	College of Engineering	24	1	#4	Weiner, Andrew M. #8,141
3	California Institute of Technology	24	4	#5	Yariv, Amnon Zalman #14,997
4	The University of Arizona	21	2	#8	Djordjevic, Ivan B. #23,188
5	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	20	2	#11	Suratwala, Tayyab I. #74,505
6	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	15	0	#19	Rauscher, Bernard J. #127,467
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	12	2	#25	Soljačić, Marin #16,220
8	Ginzton Laboratory	11	4	#27	Fan, Shanhui #360
9	National Institute of Standards and Technology	11	0	#33	Aksyuk, Vladimir A. #359,621
10	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	8	2	#47	Capasso, Federico #1,515
11	California NanoSystems Institute	8	0	#55	Jarrahi, Mona #125,784
12	University of Central Florida	7	1	#63	Andrews, Larry C. #43,996
13	School of Engineering and Applied Science	7	2	#64	Prucnal, Paul R. #45,748
14	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory	7	0	#73	Dandridge, Anthony D. #230,855
15	University of California, Santa Barbara	6	2	#76	Bowers, John Edward #8,164
16	NEC Laboratories America, Inc.	6	1	#85	Ip, Ezra M. #92,456
17	The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering	6	0	#86	Moody, Galan A. #104,540
18	University of Pittsburgh	6	0	#87	Ohodnicki, Paul R. #120,476
19	USC Viterbi School of Engineering	6	0	#90	Khajavikhan, Mercedeh M. #142,620
20	Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico	6	0	#98	Luk, Tingshan #325,207
21	Stanford Engineering	6	0	#99	Ahn, Geun-ho #333,579
22	UW College of Engineering	5	1	#104	Majumdar, Arka #61,596
23	Google LLC	5	0	#107	Zhou, Xiang #103,947
24	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	5	0	#108	Rathod, Vivek T. #116,684
25	Michigan Engineering	5	0	#109	Wang, Danhao #122,032
26	Air Force Research Laboratory	5	0	#122	Goldstein, Dennis H. #247,892
27	Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing	4	1	#129	Giurgiutiu, Victor #11,102
28	University of California, Davis	4	1	#131	Yoo, S. J.Ben #23,074
29	University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)	4	3	#135	Shih, Yanhua #31,122
30	Stanford University	4	1	#142	Siegman, Anthony E. #85,798
31	Cornell University College of Engineering	4	1	#143	Wang, Tianyu #98,887
32	Penn State College of Engineering	4	0	#144	Lakhtakia, Akhlesh #107,855
33	College of Engineering and Computing	4	0	#147	Huang, Jie #112,070
34	Cockrell School of Engineering	4	0	#149	Guo, Cheng #117,469
35	Raytheon	4	0	#150	Daum, Fred E. #125,580
36	University of Dayton School of Engineering	4	0	#162	Hardie, Russell Craig #211,798
37	UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	4	0	#163	Bai, Bijie #223,599
38	Nexus Photonics	4	0	#169	Komljenović, Tin #256,471
39	MIT School of Engineering	4	0	#173	Zhang, Yifei #275,571
40	Lincoln Laboratory	4	0	#176	Manolakis, Dimitris G. #316,200
41	The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at University of Maryland	3	2	#200	Chembo, Yanne Kouomou #43,407
42	Brookhaven National Laboratory	3	1	#204	Polyanskiy, Mikhail N. #69,398
43	Pratt School of Engineering	3	1	#206	Lynch, Jerome Peter #79,320
44	Texas A&M University	3	1	#209	Cohen, Leon H. #93,387
45	Corning Incorporated	3	0	#212	Li, Ming Jun #103,553
46	The University of North Carolina at Charlotte	3	0	#217	Tyson, Robert K. #128,525
47	Northwestern University	3	0	#219	Jacobsen, Chris J. #142,388
48	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	3	0	#154	Beausoleil, Raymond G. #147,747
49	Boston University	3	0	#222	Bifano, Thomas G. #149,658
50	Oregon State University	3	0	#228	Ostroverkhova, Oksana #178,188
51	Infinera Corporation	3	0	#243	Napoli, Antonio #298,781
52	University of Maryland, College Park	3	0	#244	Moille, Gregory T. #305,625
53	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	3	0	#247	Ting, David Z.Y. #335,077
54	SRI International	3	0	#251	Carder, Kendall L. #392,616

The top 100 in Optoelectronics & Photonics in the United States, in order

1
Fan, Shanhui
Ginzton Laboratory
2
Capasso, Federico
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
3
Miller, David A.B.
Ginzton Laboratory
4
Jacques, Steven L.
Department of Bioengineering
5
Willner, Alan Eli
University of Southern California
6
Winzer, Peter J.
Nokia Bell Labs
7
Soref, Richard A.
University of Massachusetts Boston
8
Weiner, Andrew M.
College of Engineering
9
Bowers, John Edward
University of California, Santa Barbara
10
Giurgiutiu, Victor
Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing
11
McMahon, Peter L.
Kavli Institute at Cornell for NanoScale Science
12
Kahn, Joseph M.
Ginzton Laboratory
13
Yariv, Amnon Zalman
California Institute of Technology
14
Soljačić, Marin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
15
Haus, Hermanna A.
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
16
Cao, Yuan
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
17
Englund, Dirk R.
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
18
Xia, Fengnian
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
19
Yoo, S. J.Ben
University of California, Davis
20
Djordjevic, Ivan B.
The University of Arizona
21
Akinyemi, Lanre
Prairie View A&M University
22
Campbell, Joe Charles
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
23
Theiler, James P.
New Mexico Consortium
24
Land, Edwin Herbert
The Rowland Institute at Harvard
25
Mazur, Eric
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
26
Shih, Yanhua
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
27
Faraon, Andrei
California Institute of Technology
28
Wang, Peng George
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
29
Blumenthal, Daniel J.
University of California, Santa Barbara
30
Blasch, Erik Philip
Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate
31
Kogelnik, Herwig W.
Lucent Technologies
32
Wu, Mingchiang
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
33
Kats, Mikhail A.
UW-Madison College of Engineering
34
Mack, Chrís A.
Fractilia, LLC
35
Chembo, Yanne Kouomou
The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at University of Maryland
36
Andrews, Larry C.
University of Central Florida
37
Mahler, Ronald Paxton Sheets
Eagan
38
Menyuk, Curtis R.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
39
Pelton, Matthew
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
40
Prucnal, Paul R.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
41
Fontaine, Nicolas Keith
Nokia Bell Labs
42
Vuckovic, Jelena S.
Ginzton Laboratory
43
Fixsen, Dale J.
GSFC
44
Qin, Jianwei
USDA Agricultural Research Service
45
Smith, Leslie N.
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
46
Dalton, Larry R.
University of Washington
47
Zhen, Bo
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
48
Jalali, Bahram
Adventure Photonics
49
Piprek, Joachim
NUSOD Institute
50
Majumdar, Arka
UW College of Engineering
51
Youngblood, Nathan
Swanson School of Engineering
52
Che, Di
Nokia Bell Labs
53
Uhlmann, Jeffrey K.
University of Missouri
54
Marcuse, Dietrich
College of Engineering and Information Technology
55
Polyanskiy, Mikhail N.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
56
Žmuidzinas, Jonas Stasys
California Institute of Technology
57
Sheik-Bahae, Mansoor
The University of New Mexico
58
Suratwala, Tayyab I.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
59
Bar-Cohen, Yoseph
California Institute of Technology
60
Babicheva, V. E.
Georgia State University
61
Lynch, Jerome Peter
Pratt School of Engineering
62
Byrne, Charles L.
Kennedy College of Sciences
63
Mandal, Jyotirmoy
School of Engineering and Applied Science
64
Dong, Po
II-VI Incorporated
65
Siegman, Anthony E.
Stanford University
66
Hall, John L.
JILANobel laureate
67
Ippen, Erich P.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
68
Wyant, James C.
The University of Arizona
69
Fossum, Eric R.
Dartmouth College
70
Rubenchik, Alexander M.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
71
Ip, Ezra M.
NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
72
Cohen, Leon H.
Texas A&M University
73
Ríos, Carlos A.
The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at University of Maryland
74
Wang, Tianyu
Cornell University College of Engineering
75
Hamerly, Ryan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
76
Li, Ming Jun
Corning Incorporated
77
Zhou, Xiang
Google LLC
78
Kersey, Alan D.
CytoVeris Inc.
79
Moody, Galan A.
The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
80
Krupke, William F.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
81
Shaw, Joseph A.A.
Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering
82
Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
Penn State College of Engineering
83
Guyon, Olivier
The University of Arizona
84
Devaney, Anthony J.
College of Engineering
85
Ball, John E.
Bagley College of Engineering
86
Huang, Jie
College of Engineering and Computing
87
Schmitt, Joseph M.
Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Limited
88
Phipps, Claude R.
LLC 1556 Escondida Ct.
89
Ryf, Roland R.
Nokia Bell Labs
90
Straub, Jeremy
University of West Florida
91
Rahad, Rummanur
Rice University
92
Ho, Keang Po Ricky
Apple Inc.
93
Payne, Stephen A.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
94
Essiambre, Renè Jean
Nokia Bell Labs
95
Rathod, Vivek T.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
96
Doerr, Christopher Richard
Aloe Semiconductor
97
Guo, Cheng
Cockrell School of Engineering
98
Xiang, Chao
University of California, Santa Barbara
99
Gu, Tian
Materials Research Laboratory
100
Ohodnicki, Paul R.
University of Pittsburgh

720 listed scientists in Optoelectronics & Photonics in the United States

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