OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Light-Science & Applications is 89. 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.)

Article	Citations
Light People: Professor Cheng Zhang	816
Light People: Professor Manijeh Razeghi	382
Strong-field photoelectron holography in the subcycle limit	368
Correlative optical photothermal infrared and X-ray fluorescence for chemical imaging of trace elements and relevant molecular structures directly in neurons	352
Polarization modulation with optical lock-in detection reveals universal fluorescence anisotropy of subcellular structures in live cells	320
Doped high-entropy glassy materials to create optical coherence from maximally disordered systems	300
Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10−6 noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification	299
Dose-efficient scanning Compton X-ray microscopy	296
Advancing lasers in silicon photonics	283
Enhancing spatiotemporal focusing of light deep inside scattering media with Time-Gated Reflection Matrix	283
Focusing light into scattering media with ultrasound-induced field perturbation	269
Anneal-free ultra-low loss silicon nitride integrated photonics	234
Light People: Professor John Dudley spoke about supercontinuum generation and International Day of Light	234
Quantum imaging with ultra-thin metasurfaces	232
Liquid bidentate ligand for full ligand coverage towards efficient near-infrared perovskite quantum dot LEDs	224
Comment on “Early cancer detection by serum biomolecular fingerprinting spectroscopy with machine learning”	220
New soliton dynamics revealed in the normal dispersion region	204
Non-reciprocal response in silicon photonic resonators integrated with 2D CuCrP2S6 at short-wave infrared	194
A multi-mode super-fano mechanism for enhanced third harmonic generation in silicon metasurfaces	193
Fractal photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators to generate multiple quantum chiral edge states	190
Generation of squeezed vacuum state in the millihertz frequency band	177
Exploiting optical degrees of freedom for information multiplexing in diffractive neural networks	176
Dimensionality-enhanced mid-infrared light vortex detection based on multilayer graphene	171
Celebrate a decade of publishing: ten things in ten years	165
From past to future: on-chip laser sources for photonic integrated circuits	156

Efficient ultrafast laser writing with elliptical polarization	154
Aberration-robust monocular passive depth sensing using a meta-imaging camera	153
All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials	152
A self-assembling nanoplatform for pyroptosis and ferroptosis enhanced cancer photoimmunotherapy	151
Advancing on-chip Kerr optical parametric oscillation towards coherent applications covering the green gap	149
Geometric phase-encoded stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals for visualizing real-time remote monitoring: humidity sensing as a proof of concept	147
Miniature planar telescopes for efficient, wide-angle, high-precision beam steering	146
Learnable digital signal processing: a new benchmark of linearity compensation for optical fiber communications	146
Orbital angular momentum-mediated machine learning for high-accuracy mode-feature encoding	143
Thickness bound for nonlocal wide-field-of-view metalenses	139
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics	138
Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules	138
Reversible 3D optical data storage and information encryption in photo-modulated transparent glass medium	137
Highly DUV to NIR-II responsive broadband quantum dots heterojunction photodetectors by integrating quantum cutting luminescent concentrators	132
Internal OH− induced cascade quenching of upconversion luminescence in NaYF4:Yb/Er nanocrystals	130
Hot-band absorption of indocyanine green for advanced anti-stokes fluorescence bioimaging	129
Long-range-interacting topological photonic lattices breaking channel-bandwidth limit	127
Nonlinear Rydberg exciton-polaritons in Cu2O microcavities	126
High-order femtosecond vortices up to the 30th order generated from a powerful mode-locked Hermite-Gaussian laser	124
High efficiency pure blue perovskite quantum dot light-emitting diodes based on formamidinium manipulating carrier dynamics and electron state filling	123
Polarisation optics for biomedical and clinical applications: a review	123
Non-convex optimization for inverse problem solving in computer-generated holography	122
Ultrasound sensing with optical microcavities	119
Frequency comb-to-comb stabilization over a 1.3-km free-space atmospheric optical link	118
Tunnelling of electrons via the neighboring atom	118
Perovskite single-pixel detector for dual-color metasurface imaging recognition in complex environment	118
Mid-infrared III–V semiconductor lasers epitaxially grown on Si substrates	117
End-to-end design of multicolor scintillators for enhanced energy resolution in X-ray imaging	115
Transient stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy and imaging	114
Phase-tailored assembly and encoding of dissipative soliton molecules	114
Mold-free self-assembled scalable microlens arrays with ultrasmooth surface and record-high resolution	113
Enhanced multiscale human brain imaging by semi-supervised digital staining and serial sectioning optical coherence tomography	111
Using light to image millimeter wave based on stacked meta-MEMS chip	111
Reconstructive spectrometers taper down in price	110
Ultrabright near-infrared light	108
Light People: Prof. Juejun Hu, exploring the light	108
1700 nm broadband laser source enables deep brain optical biopsy	107
Metamaterial-enabled arbitrary on-chip spatial mode manipulation	107
Creating and moving nanoantenna cold spots anywhere	107
Symmetric private information retrieval supported by quantum-secure key-exchange network	107
Biophotonic probes for bio-detection and imaging	106
Tandem light-emitting technology accelerates the commercial application of perovskite LEDs	105
Snapshot multispectral imaging using a diffractive optical network	104
Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry	103
Broadband infrared imaging governed by guided-mode resonance in dielectric metasurfaces	101
Efficient second harmonic generation by harnessing bound states in the continuum in semi-nonlinear etchless lithium niobate waveguides	101
Self-powered and broadband opto-sensor with bionic visual adaptation function based on multilayer γ-InSe flakes	100
Deep-trap ultraviolet persistent phosphor for advanced optical storage application in bright environments	99
Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy	98
Universal adaptive optics for microscopy through embedded neural network control	98

Deep learning-based virtual staining, segmentation, and classification in label-free photoacoustic histology of human specimens	97
Towards higher-dimensional structured light	96
Electro-optic tuning in composite silicon photonics based on ferroionic 2D materials	95
A new function of photochromic spiropyran: an efficient photoinitiator for two-photon polymerization	95
Shedding light on biology and healthcare—preface to the special issue on Biomedical Optics	94
Strongly absorbing molecules make tissue transparent: a new insight for understanding tissue optical clearing	93
Multimodal nonlinear endomicroscopic imaging probe using a double-core double-clad fiber and focus-combining micro-optical concept	93
Tunable optical topological transitions of plasmon polaritons in WTe2 van der Waals films	92
Fast, faster, and the fastest structured illumination microscopy	92
Polarization multiplexed diffractive computing: all-optical implementation of a group of linear transformations through a polarization-encoded diffractive network	92
Monolithic integration of embedded III-V lasers on SOI	90
Photonic neuromorphic architecture for tens-of-task lifelong learning	90
Observing quantum coherence from photons scattered in free-space	89
A multichannel optical computing architecture for advanced machine vision	89