Nature Photonics

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Photonics is 46. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lasers clean up graffiti563
Photonics celebrates double Nobel Prize achievement491
The race for wakefield-driven FELs480
Deconvolution enhances fluctuation detection437
Small tunable X-ray sources may have large impact378
Converting qubits367
Photons learn to classify with a quantum edge358
Lithography-free reconfigurable photonic processor350
All-optical polarization switching in ferroelectrics291
Publisher Correction: Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser281
Spatio-temporal control of incoherent light with metasurfaces273
Room-temperature upconverted superfluorescence265
Triangle-beam interference structured illumination microscopy256
Piconewton-sensitive cell stethoscope using an optical microcantilever255
Highly stable all-perovskite tandem solar cells with targeted conversion of tin–lead surfaces253
Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence247
Observation of loss-enhanced magneto-optical effect238
Solvent-assisted reaction for spontaneous defect passivation in perovskite solar cells238
Quasi-phase-matched up- and down-conversion in periodically poled layered semiconductors238
Direct tensor processing with coherent light236
Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate231
Ultrahigh-resolution nanoimprint patterning of quantum-dot light-emitting diodes via capillary self-assembly217
On the simultaneous scattering of two photons by a single two-level atom214
Topological orbital angular momentum extraction and twofold protection of vortex transport207
Novel light manipulation203
A bit of gain, electrically injected201
Twisted fibre photonic Chern insulator199
Femtosecond laser writes a broadband miniaturized isolator193
Hard disk drive capacity limits smashed by nanofocusing of plasmons190
Ultrafast energy exchange between two single Rydberg atoms on a nanosecond timescale189
Minute-scale Schrödinger-cat state of spin-5/2 atoms187
Light-based catalyst-free conversion of CH4 and CO2186
Ångström-tunable polarization-resolved solid-state photon sources183
Light sheets for continuous-depth holography and three-dimensional volumetric displays180
Author Correction: Ternary self-assembled molecular contact for ambient-processed perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells180
Harnessing plasma absorption in silicon MOS ring modulators177
High-power AlGaN deep-ultraviolet micro-light-emitting diode displays for maskless photolithography176
Dynamic manipulation of photoluminescence in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks176
Cascaded hard X-ray self-seeded free-electron laser at megahertz repetition rate173
New nonlinear opportunities in the ultraviolet164
Additive treatment yields high-performance lead-free perovskite light-emitting diodes164
High-rate quantum key distribution exceeding 110 Mb s–1161
Towards efficient, scalable and stable perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells159
Resource-efficient photonic quantum computation with high-dimensional cluster states157
Tracking electrons at the space-time limit149
Organic cocrystals offer record photothermal conversion148
Single-photon detection surprise148
Dissimilar photons can bunch too147
Ytterbium spectroscopy for new physics searches147
Two in one146
Efficient emitters in the NIR-II window145
Publisher Correction: Femtojoule femtosecond all-optical switching in lithium niobate nanophotonics145
Super-resolution microscopy for the life sciences145
Publisher Correction: Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence144
Wide-field coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy using random illuminations143
A digital solution towards deep optical imaging143
Multi-plateau high-harmonic generation in liquids driven by off-site recombination143
Super-resolution microscopy at its sharpest143
Plasmonics commercialized?143
Unidirectional unpolarized luminescence emission via vortex excitation142
Microdroplet manipulation141
Unlocking an optical bistability switch140
Processing quantum randomness with light140
A photonic entanglement filter with Rydberg atoms140
A super-inert near-infrared fluorescent rotaxane dye for surgical navigation139
Suppressing wide-angle light loss and non-radiative recombination for efficient perovskite solar cells137
Ultrafast atomic-scale scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of a single vacancy in a monolayer crystal136
Integrated vortex soliton microcombs136
Anomalous circularly polarized light emission in organic light-emitting diodes caused by orbital–momentum locking135
Synthetic aperture waveguide holography for compact mixed-reality displays with large étendue134
Free-form dual-comb spectroscopy for compressive sensing and imaging132
Hong–Ou–Mandel interference in colloidal CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals130
Synthetic reflection self-injection-locked microcombs129
Large-scale compressive microscopy via diffractive multiplexing across a sensor array127
All-optical temporal logic gates in localized exciton polaritons125
Super-Snell scanning light-field display for ultrawide-angle high-resolution glasses-free three-dimensional displays125
Experimental quantum-enhanced kernel-based machine learning on a photonic processor125
An open question120
Tracking nanoscopic motion with minima of light119
Sub-cycle photonics in correlated materials119
Shrinking time-domain spectroscopy to atomic dimensions119
Listening to microorganisms with light118
Entering the vacuum ultraviolet116
Publisher Correction: A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator116
Author Correction: Sub-femtonewton force sensing in solution by super-resolved photonic force microscopy115
Author Correction: In vivo NIR-II fluorescence imaging for biology and medicine114
Towards compact phase-matched and waveguided nonlinear optics in atomically layered semiconductors114
Wide-band frequency modulation of a terahertz intrinsic Josephson junction emitter of a cuprate superconductor114
Author Correction: Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate113
Sub-Doppler spectroscopy of quantum systems through nanophotonic spectral translation of electro-optic light110
Interferometric imaging of amplitude and phase of spatial biphoton states110
Sub-50-ns ultrafast upconversion luminescence of a rare-earth-doped nanoparticle110
Real-time optical signal equalization with a silicon photonic spatially distributed reservoir computer110
An adaptive moiré sensor for spectro-polarimetric hyperimaging109
Elucidating the photodegradation pathways of polymer donors for organic solar cells with seven months of outdoor operational stability108
Spin-selective strong light–matter coupling in a 2D hole gas-microcavity system108
Photonic-circuit-integrated titanium:sapphire laser107
Integrated electro-optic digital-to-analogue link for efficient computing and arbitrary waveform generation105
Stable low-dimensional perovskitoids for high-performance all-perovskite tandem solar cells105
Inverted organic solar cells with an in situ-derived SiOxNy passivation layer and power conversion efficiency exceeding 18%104
In memory of Gabriel Popescu103
Fast, three-dimensional, live-cell super-resolution imaging with multiplane structured illumination microscopy103
Costas Soukoulis (1951–2024)102
Author Correction: Light-based electron aberration corrector102
Laser gyroscope precisely tracks the Earth’s rotation102
Computing with silicon photodiodes100
Trionic all-optical biological voltage sensing via quantum statistics99
In-fibre second-harmonic generation with embedded two-dimensional materials97
It’s big quantum time97
Structural exciton localization drives efficient solid-state sensitized triplet fusion upconversion95
Visualizing optical anisotropy95
Frequency-modulated high-power photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers for long-distance coherent free-space optical communications94
Advances in optical metalenses93
Visible-to-ultraviolet frequency comb generation in lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides93
Chirality-induced quantum non-reciprocity92
Generation of ultrafast magnetic steps for coherent control92
Probing topological phase transitions using high-harmonic generation91
Super-stealth dicing of transparent solids with nanometric precision91
Ultrathin MXene assemblies approach the intrinsic absorption limit in the 0.5–10 THz band90
Light-based on-chip in situ training88
Space-time-topological events in photonic quantum walks88
Photonics based cooling outpaces policy87
Switching it up87
Controlling structured light in the extreme ultraviolet range86
Reflection and refraction at a time boundary86
Author Correction: Onset of vortex clustering and inverse energy cascade in dissipative quantum fluids86
Full-field Brillouin microscopy based on an imaging Fourier-transform spectrometer85
Local and remote synthesis of single-photon space-time wave packets85
Enhancing spatiotemporal light modulators85
Delivering broadband light deep inside diffusive media85
Generating free-space structured light with programmable integrated photonics84
Doubling the resolution of fluorescence-lifetime single-molecule localization microscopy with image scanning microscopy84
Terabit-scale high-fidelity diamond data storage83
Non-Hermitian gauged laser array83
Event-based vision sensor for fast and dense single-molecule localization microscopy82
Enhanced inverse Compton scattering via spontaneous focusing induced by a coated plasma mirror81
Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy with a needle-shaped beam81
Anti-perovskites with long carrier lifetime for ultralow dose and stable X-ray detection80
Higher-dimensional processing using a photonic tensor core with continuous-time data79
Magneto-optics enhances in-memory computing79
Bright and stable near-infrared lead-free perovskite light-emitting diodes79
Parallelized computational 3D video microscopy of freely moving organisms at multiple gigapixels per second79
Plasmonic photoconductive terahertz focal-plane array with pixel super-resolution79
The path ahead for organic photovoltaics78
On-site enhancement and control of spin-forbidden dark excitons in a plasmonic heterostructure78
Readout-efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon imager with orthogonal time–amplitude multiplexing by hotspot quantization77
Single-particle photoacoustic vibrational spectroscopy using optical microresonators77
Taming photons to sense fast and faint infrared signals76
Tiniest LEDs light up76
New photodiodes ready to bridge optical and sub-THz communications75
Lightning protection by laser75
Twisted optical fibres as photonic topological insulators74
Continuous terahertz band coverage through precise electron-beam tailoring in free-electron lasers72
A wireless optoelectronic probe to monitor oxygenation in deep brain tissue71
Vibrational imaging goes deeper and finer71
Quantum fusion of independent networks based on multi-user entanglement swapping71
Lithography-free reconfigurable integrated photonic processor71
Variations in the Earth’s rotation rate measured with a ring laser interferometer71
Orders-of-magnitude improvement in precision spectroscopy of an inner-shell orbital clock transition in neutral ytterbium71
A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator70
Highly bright and stable single-crystal perovskite light-emitting diodes70
Extreme γ-ray radiation hardness and high scintillation yield in perovskite nanocrystals70
Quantum time reflection and refraction of ultracold atoms69
Multifunctional entinostat enhances the mechanical robustness and efficiency of flexible perovskite solar cells and minimodules69
Vapour-assisted surface treatment for highly stable fully printed carbon-electrode perovskite solar modules69
Programmable integrated quantum photonics68
Excitonic resonances control the temporal dynamics of nonlinear optical wave mixing in monolayer semiconductors68
Ultrafast serrodyne optical frequency translator68
In situ dynamic regulation of strain at the buried interface of stable perovskite solar cells67
All-optical image transportation through a multimode fibre using a miniaturized diffractive neural network on the distal facet67
All-optical nonlinear Compton scattering performed with a multi-petawatt laser67
Bigger and better66
Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser66
Incoherent dielectric tensor tomography for quantitative three-dimensional measurement of biaxial anisotropy65
Phase conjugation with spatially incoherent light in complex media65
Publisher Correction: Cryogenic optical data link for superconducting circuits65
Detecting spin polarization65
Colloidal quantum dots shine in the mid-infrared63
Introduction of magneto-fluorescence fluctuation microspectroscopy for investigating quantum effects in biology62
Splitting light pulses62
Watching ionization in a new light62
Metal–organic framework scintillators detect radioactive gases62
Directional strong coupling at the nanoscale between hyperbolic polaritons and organic molecules61
Enabling smart vision with metasurfaces61
Adaptive laser-tagging optofluidic microcavity for single-molecule hydrogen detection across a nine-decade concentration span60
High-bandwidth perovskite photonic sources on silicon60
Integrated non-reciprocal magneto-optics with ultra-high endurance for photonic in-memory computing60
Image-guided computational holographic wavefront shaping60
Stabilizing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells via strategic interfacial contact engineering59
Internal homojunction Sb2Se3 solar cell59
Plasmonic biosensor enabled by resonant quantum tunnelling59
Self-organized nanoplasmonic artificial leaf for hot-carrier bioelectronic interfaces58
Visible to mid-wave infrared PbS/HgTe colloidal quantum dot imagers58
Water-induced high-performance quantum-dot light-emitting diodes58
Luminescent concentrator design for displays with high ambient contrast and efficiency57
Continuing the diversity conversation57
Spin–photon interfaces in silicon56
OLETs with narrowband emission56
Quantum cascade laser turns thirty55
Plasma optics promise exawatt performance55
Direct characterization of shear phonons in layered materials by mechano-Raman spectroscopy55
Dual-comb wonders54
Terahertz cyclotron emission from two-dimensional Dirac fermions54
Attosecond coherent control of electronic wave packets in two-colour photoionization using a novel timing tool for seeded free-electron laser54
Achieving the full-wavelength phase-matching for efficient nonlinear optical frequency conversion in C(NH2)3BF454
Resolution of 100 photons and quantum generation of unbiased random numbers54
Dissipative solitons in mode-locked parity–time-symmetric lasers54
Plasmon-enhanced ultralow-threshold solid-state triplet fusion upconversion54
Attosecond leap in scanning tunnelling microscopy52
Real-time observation of picosecond-timescale optical quantum entanglement towards ultrafast quantum information processing52
Optical–electrical skin sensing52
Microcavity Kerr optical frequency division with integrated SiN photonics52
Optically addressing single spins in silicon51
Reviving holographic photonic integration51
A resonant tone for photonic time crystals51
Observation of quantized vortex in atomic Bose–Einstein condensate at Dirac point with emergent spin–orbit coupling50
Polymer dots for nanoscale live-cell imaging50
Efficient quantum state tomography50
Vectorial ultrafast chiroptical microscopy50
Quantum entanglement measures Earth’s rotation50
Metaoptics for the consumer market50
Temporal solitons and frequency combs in quadratic resonators49
Seeing into deep tissue48
Gate-tunable optical anisotropy in wafer-scale, aligned carbon nanotube films48
Generalized angle–orbital angular momentum Talbot effect and modulo mode sorting48
Entangled light enhances force sensing48
Wide-band millimetre-wave synthesizer using microresonator-soliton photomixing48
Ultrafast nano-imaging of dark excitons47
Laser power consumption of soliton formation in a bidirectional Kerr resonator47
Sub-picosecond steering of ultrafast incoherent emission from semiconductor metasurfaces46
Tunable coherent mixed-dimensional perovskite heterojunctions and quantum wells grown from solution46
Diffractive tensorized unit for million-TOPS general-purpose computing46
Highly efficient circularly polarized near-infrared phosphorescence in both solution and aggregate46
Continuous-wave nonlinear polarization control and signatures of criticality in a perovskite cavity46
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