Nature Photonics

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Photonics is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Photonics celebrates double Nobel Prize achievement477
Lasers clean up graffiti466
The race for wakefield-driven FELs451
All-optical polarization switching in ferroelectrics426
Deconvolution enhances fluctuation detection406
Small tunable X-ray sources may have large impact388
Publisher Correction: Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser378
Spatio-temporal control of incoherent light with metasurfaces319
Lithography-free reconfigurable photonic processor317
Topological orbital angular momentum extraction and twofold protection of vortex transport312
Quasi-phase-matched up- and down-conversion in periodically poled layered semiconductors290
Triangle-beam interference structured illumination microscopy287
Room-temperature upconverted superfluorescence270
On the simultaneous scattering of two photons by a single two-level atom239
Converting qubits238
Coherent control of ultrafast extreme ultraviolet transient absorption231
Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence227
Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate226
Solvent-assisted reaction for spontaneous defect passivation in perovskite solar cells225
Novel light manipulation200
Observation of loss-enhanced magneto-optical effect200
Cascaded hard X-ray self-seeded free-electron laser at megahertz repetition rate196
A photonic quantum engine driven by superradiance195
Harnessing plasma absorption in silicon MOS ring modulators191
Resource-efficient photonic quantum computation with high-dimensional cluster states191
Minute-scale Schrödinger-cat state of spin-5/2 atoms182
Femtosecond laser writes a broadband miniaturized isolator181
A bit of gain, electrically injected180
Room-temperature electrically switchable spin–valley coupling in a van der Waals ferroelectric halide perovskite with persistent spin helix179
Additive treatment yields high-performance lead-free perovskite light-emitting diodes173
High-rate quantum key distribution exceeding 110 Mb s–1171
Ultrafast energy exchange between two single Rydberg atoms on a nanosecond timescale170
Photon-number entanglement generated by sequential excitation of a two-level atom163
Observation of light-driven band structure via multiband high-harmonic spectroscopy160
Author Correction: A ferroelectric multilevel non-volatile photonic phase shifter158
Ångström-tunable polarization-resolved solid-state photon sources157
New nonlinear opportunities in the ultraviolet156
Light sheets for continuous-depth holography and three-dimensional volumetric displays154
Electrically tunable nonlinear polaritonic metasurface153
Chiral phonons in microcrystals and nanofibrils of biomolecules150
High-power AlGaN deep-ultraviolet micro-light-emitting diode displays for maskless photolithography150
Unlocking an optical bistability switch147
A bright future for attosecond physics145
Plasmonics commercialized?145
Super-resolution microscopy at its sharpest141
Publisher Correction: Femtojoule femtosecond all-optical switching in lithium niobate nanophotonics138
Two in one137
Dissimilar photons can bunch too137
Efficient emitters in the NIR-II window136
Processing quantum randomness with light135
A digital solution towards deep optical imaging134
Free-form dual-comb spectroscopy for compressive sensing and imaging133
Phase control of terahertz waves moves on chip133
Synthetic reflection self-injection-locked microcombs132
Hong–Ou–Mandel interference in colloidal CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals132
Integrated vortex soliton microcombs132
Super-resolution microscopy for the life sciences130
Experimental quantum-enhanced kernel-based machine learning on a photonic processor128
Synthetic aperture waveguide holography for compact mixed-reality displays with large étendue124
Metasurface-based bijective illumination collection imaging provides high-resolution tomography in three dimensions121
Anomalous circularly polarized light emission in organic light-emitting diodes caused by orbital–momentum locking121
Microdroplet manipulation120
Wide-field coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy using random illuminations119
Ultrafast atomic-scale scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of a single vacancy in a monolayer crystal116
A photonic entanglement filter with Rydberg atoms114
Publisher Correction: Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence114
Unidirectional unpolarized luminescence emission via vortex excitation114
All-optical temporal logic gates in localized exciton polaritons113
Plasmonic lasers turn magnetic112
An open question112
Suppressing wide-angle light loss and non-radiative recombination for efficient perovskite solar cells112
A new change of phase110
Memristors go quantum110
Author Correction: Giant optical anisotropy in a quasi-one-dimensional crystal109
Shrinking time-domain spectroscopy to atomic dimensions107
Publisher Correction: A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator107
Sub-cycle photonics in correlated materials104
Author Correction: Sub-femtonewton force sensing in solution by super-resolved photonic force microscopy104
Tracking nanoscopic motion with minima of light103
Listening to microorganisms with light102
Sub-Doppler spectroscopy of quantum systems through nanophotonic spectral translation of electro-optic light100
Author Correction: Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate100
Spin-selective strong light–matter coupling in a 2D hole gas-microcavity system99
Interferometric imaging of amplitude and phase of spatial biphoton states99
Fast, three-dimensional, live-cell super-resolution imaging with multiplane structured illumination microscopy99
Integrated electro-optic digital-to-analogue link for efficient computing and arbitrary waveform generation97
Author Correction: In vivo NIR-II fluorescence imaging for biology and medicine97
Towards compact phase-matched and waveguided nonlinear optics in atomically layered semiconductors97
Photonic-circuit-integrated titanium:sapphire laser95
An adaptive moiré sensor for spectro-polarimetric hyperimaging95
Synthetic helical dichroism for six-dimensional optical orbital angular momentum multiplexing95
Sub-50-ns ultrafast upconversion luminescence of a rare-earth-doped nanoparticle94
Elucidating the photodegradation pathways of polymer donors for organic solar cells with seven months of outdoor operational stability93
Wide-band frequency modulation of a terahertz intrinsic Josephson junction emitter of a cuprate superconductor93
Inverted organic solar cells with an in situ-derived SiOxNy passivation layer and power conversion efficiency exceeding 18%92
Clocks with a precise tick91
It’s big quantum time90
Costas Soukoulis (1951–2024)89
Ultrafast on-chip germanium photodiode89
Laser gyroscope precisely tracks the Earth’s rotation89
Giant effective Zeeman splitting in a monolayer semiconductor realized by spin-selective strong light–matter coupling88
In memory of Gabriel Popescu88
Probing topological phase transitions using high-harmonic generation88
Space-time-topological events in photonic quantum walks88
Micropillars for single-photon phase shifts88
Computing with silicon photodiodes87
Generation of ultrafast magnetic steps for coherent control87
Chirality-induced quantum non-reciprocity87
Advances in optical metalenses86
Trionic all-optical biological voltage sensing via quantum statistics86
In-fibre second-harmonic generation with embedded two-dimensional materials85
Visible-to-ultraviolet frequency comb generation in lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides85
Super-stealth dicing of transparent solids with nanometric precision85
Non-Hermitian gauged laser array84
Ultrathin MXene assemblies approach the intrinsic absorption limit in the 0.5–10 THz band84
Light-based on-chip in situ training84
Author Correction: Room-temperature superfluorescence in hybrid perovskites and its origins84
Switching it up83
Author Correction: Onset of vortex clustering and inverse energy cascade in dissipative quantum fluids83
Magneto-optics enhances in-memory computing83
Single-particle photoacoustic vibrational spectroscopy using optical microresonators82
Delivering broadband light deep inside diffusive media82
Terabit-scale high-fidelity diamond data storage82
Event-based vision sensor for fast and dense single-molecule localization microscopy81
Enhancing spatiotemporal light modulators80
Parallelized computational 3D video microscopy of freely moving organisms at multiple gigapixels per second79
Full-field Brillouin microscopy based on an imaging Fourier-transform spectrometer79
Reflection and refraction at a time boundary78
Plasmonic photoconductive terahertz focal-plane array with pixel super-resolution78
Doubling the resolution of fluorescence-lifetime single-molecule localization microscopy with image scanning microscopy77
Intense few-cycle visible pulses directly generated via nonlinear fibre mode mixing77
Generating free-space structured light with programmable integrated photonics76
Anti-perovskites with long carrier lifetime for ultralow dose and stable X-ray detection76
Bright and stable near-infrared lead-free perovskite light-emitting diodes76
Integrated optical frequency comb technologies75
Observation of the all-optical Stern–Gerlach effect in nonlinear optics75
Higher-dimensional processing using a photonic tensor core with continuous-time data75
High-speed programmable photonic circuits in a cryogenically compatible, visible–near-infrared 200 mm CMOS architecture75
Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy with a needle-shaped beam74
Surface ion trap74
Quantum phase modulator73
Goodbye Letters72
Vibrational imaging goes deeper and finer72
Lightning protection by laser72
Interaction and co-assembly of optical and topological solitons71
Quantum time reflection and refraction of ultracold atoms71
Variations in the Earth’s rotation rate measured with a ring laser interferometer71
Excitonic resonances control the temporal dynamics of nonlinear optical wave mixing in monolayer semiconductors70
Publisher Correction: Subradiant directional memory in cooperative scattering70
Tiniest LEDs light up69
Taming photons to sense fast and faint infrared signals68
Excitons surf the waves68
All-optical nonlinear Compton scattering performed with a multi-petawatt laser67
Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser67
Extreme γ-ray radiation hardness and high scintillation yield in perovskite nanocrystals67
Highly bright and stable single-crystal perovskite light-emitting diodes67
Lithography-free reconfigurable integrated photonic processor66
Ultrafast serrodyne optical frequency translator66
Third-harmonic Mie scattering from semiconductor nanohelices65
Non-Abelian braiding on photonic chips65
A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator64
A wireless optoelectronic probe to monitor oxygenation in deep brain tissue64
Readout-efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon imager with orthogonal time–amplitude multiplexing by hotspot quantization64
Shaping light for optogenetics64
Multifunctional entinostat enhances the mechanical robustness and efficiency of flexible perovskite solar cells and minimodules64
All-optical image transportation through a multimode fibre using a miniaturized diffractive neural network on the distal facet64
Microwave–optical transducer efficiency boost63
Bigger and better63
Publisher Correction: Cryogenic optical data link for superconducting circuits61
Metal–organic framework scintillators detect radioactive gases61
Visible to mid-wave infrared PbS/HgTe colloidal quantum dot imagers59
Ever-evolving optical lattice clocks59
Phase conjugation with spatially incoherent light in complex media59
Plasmonic biosensor enabled by resonant quantum tunnelling59
Image-guided computational holographic wavefront shaping58
Splitting light pulses58
High-bandwidth perovskite photonic sources on silicon57
Enabling smart vision with metasurfaces57
Introduction of magneto-fluorescence fluctuation microspectroscopy for investigating quantum effects in biology57
Integrated non-reciprocal magneto-optics with ultra-high endurance for photonic in-memory computing56
Detecting spin polarization56
Dual-comb wonders55
Mid-infrared ultrashort pulse generation55
Digital photoprogramming of liquid-crystal superstructures featuring intrinsic chiral photoswitches55
New frontiers for integrated photonics55
Plasma optics promise exawatt performance54
Continuing the diversity conversation54
Terahertz cyclotron emission from two-dimensional Dirac fermions54
Quantum cascade laser turns thirty54
Smoke rings of light53
Luminescent concentrator design for displays with high ambient contrast and efficiency53
Direct characterization of shear phonons in layered materials by mechano-Raman spectroscopy53
OLETs with narrowband emission53
Real-time observation of picosecond-timescale optical quantum entanglement towards ultrafast quantum information processing53
Optomechanical quantum teleportation51
Microcavity Kerr optical frequency division with integrated SiN photonics51
Attosecond coherent control of electronic wave packets in two-colour photoionization using a novel timing tool for seeded free-electron laser51
Resolution of 100 photons and quantum generation of unbiased random numbers51
A resonant tone for photonic time crystals50
Two-step absorption instead of two-photon absorption in 3D nanoprinting50
Achieving the full-wavelength phase-matching for efficient nonlinear optical frequency conversion in C(NH2)3BF450
Entangled light enhances force sensing49
Efficient quantum state tomography49
Generalized angle–orbital angular momentum Talbot effect and modulo mode sorting49
Metaoptics for the consumer market49
Reviving holographic photonic integration49
Optically addressing single spins in silicon49
Ultrafast nano-imaging of dark excitons48
Tunable coherent mixed-dimensional perovskite heterojunctions and quantum wells grown from solution47
Continuous-wave nonlinear polarization control and signatures of criticality in a perovskite cavity47
Seeing into deep tissue47
Mirror symmetric on-chip frequency circulation of light47
Quantum entanglement measures Earth’s rotation47
Diffractive tensorized unit for million-TOPS general-purpose computing46
Gate-tunable optical anisotropy in wafer-scale, aligned carbon nanotube films46
Real-space subfemtosecond imaging of quantum electronic coherences in molecules46
Laser power consumption of soliton formation in a bidirectional Kerr resonator46
Parametrically driven pure-Kerr temporal solitons in a chip-integrated microcavity45
Chiral materials and mechanisms for circularly polarized light-emitting diodes45
Sub-picosecond steering of ultrafast incoherent emission from semiconductor metasurfaces45
Quantum Breakthrough awards44
Laser-driven broadband near-infrared light source with watt-level output44
Add noise for better multiplexing44
Highly efficient circularly polarized near-infrared phosphorescence in both solution and aggregate44
Light control with atomically thin magnets42
Light-controlled microvehicles42
Author Correction: Image-guided computational holographic wavefront shaping42
A crystal of light vortices42
Metamaterials for the masses42
Tuning optical cavities by Möbius topology42
Discharging excitons: fast and at will42
Full-color holography using combs42
Dressing with visible light41
Efficient second-harmonic generation in 3D colloidal crystals41
Few-photon all-optical phase rotation in a quantum-well micropillar cavity41
Nonlinear helical dichroism in chiral and achiral molecules41
Taming twisted light with topology40
Building atomic clock lasers with integrated photonics40
Electrically driven random lasing from a modified Fabry–Pérot laser diode40
Publisher Correction: Ever-evolving optical lattice clocks40
Imaging single ion channels via their Rayleigh scattering40
Hand-drawing perovskite devices39
Shining light on turbulence39
Photonic radar for contactless vital sign detection39
Broadband hyperspectral imaging39
High-efficiency photoemission from magnetically doped quantum dots driven by multi-step spin-exchange Auger ionization37
Generation of three-dimensional cluster entangled state37
Optically addressable universal holonomic quantum gates on diamond spins36
Observation of localization of light in linear photonic quasicrystals with diverse rotational symmetries36
Versatile optical frequency division with Kerr-induced synchronization at tunable microcomb synthetic dispersive waves36
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