Nature Photonics

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Photonics is 41. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Photonics celebrates double Nobel Prize achievement419
Lasers clean up graffiti401
The race for wakefield-driven FELs385
All-optical polarization switching in ferroelectrics369
Deconvolution enhances fluctuation detection368
Spatio-temporal control of incoherent light with metasurfaces349
Small tunable X-ray sources may have large impact327
Converting qubits308
Quasi-phase-matched up- and down-conversion in periodically poled layered semiconductors288
Generation and measurement of intense few-femtosecond superradiant extreme-ultraviolet free-electron laser pulses273
Publisher Correction: Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser255
Lithography-free reconfigurable photonic processor254
Observation of loss-enhanced magneto-optical effect244
On the simultaneous scattering of two photons by a single two-level atom236
Topological orbital angular momentum extraction and twofold protection of vortex transport235
Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate222
Coherent control of ultrafast extreme ultraviolet transient absorption208
Room-temperature upconverted superfluorescence208
Novel light manipulation203
A bit of gain, electrically injected202
New nonlinear opportunities in the ultraviolet196
Ultrafast energy exchange between two single Rydberg atoms on a nanosecond timescale196
Electrically tunable nonlinear polaritonic metasurface182
Photon-number entanglement generated by sequential excitation of a two-level atom179
Cascaded hard X-ray self-seeded free-electron laser at megahertz repetition rate178
Author Correction: High-precision digital terahertz phase manipulation within a multichannel field perturbation coding chip177
Light sheets for continuous-depth holography and three-dimensional volumetric displays177
Author Correction: A ferroelectric multilevel non-volatile photonic phase shifter176
Minute-scale Schrödinger-cat state of spin-5/2 atoms176
Femtosecond laser writes a broadband miniaturized isolator165
A photonic quantum engine driven by superradiance152
Resource-efficient photonic quantum computation with high-dimensional cluster states150
Observation of light-driven band structure via multiband high-harmonic spectroscopy148
Chiral phonons in microcrystals and nanofibrils of biomolecules147
High-power AlGaN deep-ultraviolet micro-light-emitting diode displays for maskless photolithography140
Harnessing plasma absorption in silicon MOS ring modulators139
Room-temperature electrically switchable spin–valley coupling in a van der Waals ferroelectric halide perovskite with persistent spin helix138
High-rate quantum key distribution exceeding 110 Mb s–1138
Additive treatment yields high-performance lead-free perovskite light-emitting diodes136
Wide-field coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy using random illuminations135
Advances in Brillouin–Mandelstam light-scattering spectroscopy134
Metasurface-based bijective illumination collection imaging provides high-resolution tomography in three dimensions132
Synthetic reflection self-injection-locked microcombs127
Ultrafast atomic-scale scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of a single vacancy in a monolayer crystal126
Unidirectional unpolarized luminescence emission via vortex excitation125
Suppressing wide-angle light loss and non-radiative recombination for efficient perovskite solar cells125
Hong–Ou–Mandel interference in colloidal CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals124
Integrated vortex soliton microcombs123
Plasmonics commercialized?122
All-optical temporal logic gates in localized exciton polaritons122
A bright future for attosecond physics122
Microdroplet manipulation121
Super-resolution microscopy for the life sciences120
Super-resolution microscopy at its sharpest119
Free-form dual-comb spectroscopy for compressive sensing and imaging119
Phase control of terahertz waves moves on chip119
Photons walk on fractal graphs117
Publisher Correction: Femtojoule femtosecond all-optical switching in lithium niobate nanophotonics114
Dissimilar photons can bunch too113
Two in one111
Efficient emitters in the NIR-II window110
Unlocking an optical bistability switch108
Processing quantum randomness with light107
A digital solution towards deep optical imaging106
A photonic entanglement filter with Rydberg atoms104
An open question102
Anomalous circularly polarized light emission in organic light-emitting diodes caused by orbital–momentum locking102
Plasmonic lasers turn magnetic101
Memristors go quantum100
A new change of phase100
Author Correction: Giant optical anisotropy in a quasi-one-dimensional crystal98
Publisher Correction: A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator96
Author Correction: In vivo NIR-II fluorescence imaging for biology and medicine96
Author Correction: Sub-femtonewton force sensing in solution by super-resolved photonic force microscopy95
Sub-cycle photonics in correlated materials95
Shrinking time-domain spectroscopy to atomic dimensions95
Fast, three-dimensional, live-cell super-resolution imaging with multiplane structured illumination microscopy94
Tracking nanoscopic motion with minima of light93
Listening to microorganisms with light92
Inverted organic solar cells with an in situ-derived SiOxNy passivation layer and power conversion efficiency exceeding 18%92
An adaptive moiré sensor for spectro-polarimetric hyperimaging91
Elucidating the photodegradation pathways of polymer donors for organic solar cells with seven months of outdoor operational stability91
Wide-band frequency modulation of a terahertz intrinsic Josephson junction emitter of a cuprate superconductor91
Spin-selective strong light–matter coupling in a 2D hole gas-microcavity system88
Sub-Doppler spectroscopy of quantum systems through nanophotonic spectral translation of electro-optic light88
Polaritonic nonlocality in light–matter interaction88
Photonic-circuit-integrated titanium:sapphire laser87
Towards compact phase-matched and waveguided nonlinear optics in atomically layered semiconductors86
Synthetic helical dichroism for six-dimensional optical orbital angular momentum multiplexing85
Sub-50-ns ultrafast upconversion luminescence of a rare-earth-doped nanoparticle85
Author Correction: Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate84
Clocks with a precise tick83
Interferometric imaging of amplitude and phase of spatial biphoton states83
Costas Soukoulis (1951–2024)82
It’s big quantum time82
Publisher Correction: Metasurfaces for quantum photonics82
Laser gyroscope precisely tracks the Earth’s rotation82
Ultrafast on-chip germanium photodiode81
Micropillars for single-photon phase shifts81
In memory of Gabriel Popescu81
Super-stealth dicing of transparent solids with nanometric precision79
Space-time-topological events in photonic quantum walks79
Generation of ultrafast magnetic steps for coherent control79
Computing with silicon photodiodes79
High-precision digital terahertz phase manipulation within a multichannel field perturbation coding chip79
Trionic all-optical biological voltage sensing via quantum statistics79
Ultra-coherent Fano laser based on a bound state in the continuum78
Probing topological phase transitions using high-harmonic generation77
In-fibre second-harmonic generation with embedded two-dimensional materials77
Advances in optical metalenses76
Giant effective Zeeman splitting in a monolayer semiconductor realized by spin-selective strong light–matter coupling76
Visible-to-ultraviolet frequency comb generation in lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides76
Ultrathin MXene assemblies approach the intrinsic absorption limit in the 0.5–10 THz band76
Author Correction: Room-temperature superfluorescence in hybrid perovskites and its origins75
Author Correction: Onset of vortex clustering and inverse energy cascade in dissipative quantum fluids75
Non-Hermitian gauged laser array75
Enhancing spatiotemporal light modulators75
Light-based on-chip in situ training75
Magneto-optics enhances in-memory computing74
Switching it up74
Reflection and refraction at a time boundary71
Full-field Brillouin microscopy based on an imaging Fourier-transform spectrometer71
Intense few-cycle visible pulses directly generated via nonlinear fibre mode mixing71
Generating free-space structured light with programmable integrated photonics70
Event-based vision sensor for fast and dense single-molecule localization microscopy70
Observation of the all-optical Stern–Gerlach effect in nonlinear optics70
Parallelized computational 3D video microscopy of freely moving organisms at multiple gigapixels per second70
Terabit-scale high-fidelity diamond data storage69
Doubling the resolution of fluorescence-lifetime single-molecule localization microscopy with image scanning microscopy69
Delivering broadband light deep inside diffusive media69
Plasmonic photoconductive terahertz focal-plane array with pixel super-resolution68
Integrated optical frequency comb technologies67
Higher-dimensional processing using a photonic tensor core with continuous-time data67
Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy with a needle-shaped beam67
Surface ion trap66
High-speed programmable photonic circuits in a cryogenically compatible, visible–near-infrared 200 mm CMOS architecture66
Single-particle photoacoustic vibrational spectroscopy using optical microresonators66
Anti-perovskites with long carrier lifetime for ultralow dose and stable X-ray detection66
Bright and stable near-infrared lead-free perovskite light-emitting diodes66
Goodbye Letters65
Quantum phase modulator65
Excitonic resonances control the temporal dynamics of nonlinear optical wave mixing in monolayer semiconductors64
Vibrational imaging goes deeper and finer64
Lightning protection by laser64
Ultrafast serrodyne optical frequency translator63
Publisher Correction: Subradiant directional memory in cooperative scattering63
Excitons surf the waves61
Readout-efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon imager with orthogonal time–amplitude multiplexing by hotspot quantization60
Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser60
Lithography-free reconfigurable integrated photonic processor60
Third-harmonic Mie scattering from semiconductor nanohelices60
All-optical image transportation through a multimode fibre using a miniaturized diffractive neural network on the distal facet60
Taming photons to sense fast and faint infrared signals59
All-optical nonlinear Compton scattering performed with a multi-petawatt laser59
Quantum time reflection and refraction of ultracold atoms59
Variations in the Earth’s rotation rate measured with a ring laser interferometer58
Multifunctional entinostat enhances the mechanical robustness and efficiency of flexible perovskite solar cells and minimodules58
Highly bright and stable single-crystal perovskite light-emitting diodes58
Extreme γ-ray radiation hardness and high scintillation yield in perovskite nanocrystals58
Non-Abelian braiding on photonic chips58
A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator58
Interaction and co-assembly of optical and topological solitons58
Metal–organic framework scintillators detect radioactive gases57
Bigger and better57
Detecting spin polarization57
Shaping light for optogenetics57
Microwave–optical transducer efficiency boost57
A wireless optoelectronic probe to monitor oxygenation in deep brain tissue57
Introduction of magneto-fluorescence fluctuation microspectroscopy for investigating quantum effects in biology56
Cascaded particle accelerators reach new energy56
Publisher Correction: Cryogenic optical data link for superconducting circuits56
Phase conjugation with spatially incoherent light in complex media55
Ever-evolving optical lattice clocks55
Integrated non-reciprocal magneto-optics with ultra-high endurance for photonic in-memory computing54
Mid-infrared semimetal polarization detectors with configurable polarity transition53
High-bandwidth perovskite photonic sources on silicon53
Enabling smart vision with metasurfaces53
Digital photoprogramming of liquid-crystal superstructures featuring intrinsic chiral photoswitches53
Visible to mid-wave infrared PbS/HgTe colloidal quantum dot imagers53
Image-guided computational holographic wavefront shaping52
Twin-field quantum key distribution over a 511 km optical fibre linking two distant metropolitan areas51
Dual-comb wonders50
Mid-infrared ultrashort pulse generation50
Direct characterization of shear phonons in layered materials by mechano-Raman spectroscopy50
New frontiers for integrated photonics50
Plasma optics promise exawatt performance50
A resonant tone for photonic time crystals50
Transient gratings with X-rays50
Terahertz cyclotron emission from two-dimensional Dirac fermions49
Luminescent concentrator design for displays with high ambient contrast and efficiency49
High-temperature superfluorescence in methyl ammonium lead iodide49
Optomechanical quantum teleportation48
Smoke rings of light48
Continuing the diversity conversation48
Real-time observation of picosecond-timescale optical quantum entanglement towards ultrafast quantum information processing48
Quantum cascade laser turns thirty47
Achieving the full-wavelength phase-matching for efficient nonlinear optical frequency conversion in C(NH2)3BF447
Attosecond coherent control of electronic wave packets in two-colour photoionization using a novel timing tool for seeded free-electron laser47
Resolution of 100 photons and quantum generation of unbiased random numbers47
Optically addressing single spins in silicon46
Two-step absorption instead of two-photon absorption in 3D nanoprinting46
Metaoptics for the consumer market46
Efficient quantum state tomography45
Entangled light enhances force sensing45
Ion implanation success44
Author Correction: High-brightness self-seeded X-ray free-electron laser covering the 3.5 keV to 14.6 keV range44
Author Correction: High-sensitivity imaging of time-domain near-infrared light transducer43
Gate-tunable optical anisotropy in wafer-scale, aligned carbon nanotube films42
Coexistence of dynamical delocalization and spectral localization through stochastic dissipation42
Reviving holographic photonic integration42
Quantum entanglement measures Earth’s rotation42
Parametrically driven pure-Kerr temporal solitons in a chip-integrated microcavity41
Seeing into deep tissue41
Generalized angle–orbital angular momentum Talbot effect and modulo mode sorting41
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