OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Light-Science & Applications is 91. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Light People: Professor Cheng Zhang	886
Light People: Professor Manijeh Razeghi	409
Doped high-entropy glassy materials to create optical coherence from maximally disordered systems	407
Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10−6 noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification	392
Enhancing spatiotemporal focusing of light deep inside scattering media with Time-Gated Reflection Matrix	359
Focusing light into scattering media with ultrasound-induced field perturbation	331
Light People: Professor John Dudley spoke about supercontinuum generation and International Day of Light	327
Quantum imaging with ultra-thin metasurfaces	319
Efficient ultrafast laser writing with elliptical polarization	309
Strong-field photoelectron holography in the subcycle limit	261
Comment on “Early cancer detection by serum biomolecular fingerprinting spectroscopy with machine learning”	257
Fractal photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators to generate multiple quantum chiral edge states	257
New soliton dynamics revealed in the normal dispersion region	221
Dimensionality-enhanced mid-infrared light vortex detection based on multilayer graphene	221
High-order femtosecond vortices up to the 30th order generated from a powerful mode-locked Hermite-Gaussian laser	214
Polarization modulation with optical lock-in detection reveals universal fluorescence anisotropy of subcellular structures in live cells	211
Image processing with Optical matrix vector multipliers implemented for encoding and decoding tasks	203
Generation of squeezed vacuum state in the millihertz frequency band	196
Anneal-free ultra-low loss silicon nitride integrated photonics	190
Orbital angular momentum-mediated machine learning for high-accuracy mode-feature encoding	187
Non-reciprocal response in silicon photonic resonators integrated with 2D CuCrP2S6 at short-wave infrared	184
Hot-band absorption of indocyanine green for advanced anti-stokes fluorescence bioimaging	182
Celebrate a decade of publishing: ten things in ten years	182
Dose-efficient scanning Compton X-ray microscopy	176
Long-range-interacting topological photonic lattices breaking channel-bandwidth limit	171

Advancing lasers in silicon photonics	166
Aberration-robust monocular passive depth sensing using a meta-imaging camera	163
Observing half-integer topological winding numbers in non-Hermitian synthetic lattices	161
Learnable digital signal processing: a new benchmark of linearity compensation for optical fiber communications	152
High efficiency pure blue perovskite quantum dot light-emitting diodes based on formamidinium manipulating carrier dynamics and electron state filling	152
A multi-mode super-fano mechanism for enhanced third harmonic generation in silicon metasurfaces	152
Nonlinear Rydberg exciton-polaritons in Cu2O microcavities	152
Advancing on-chip Kerr optical parametric oscillation towards coherent applications covering the green gap	147
Thickness bound for nonlocal wide-field-of-view metalenses	145
From past to future: on-chip laser sources for photonic integrated circuits	144
Geometric phase-encoded stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals for visualizing real-time remote monitoring: humidity sensing as a proof of concept	142
Exploiting optical degrees of freedom for information multiplexing in diffractive neural networks	138
Quantum correlation-enhanced dual-comb spectroscopy	137
All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials	137
Ultrasound sensing with optical microcavities	135
Highly DUV to NIR-II responsive broadband quantum dots heterojunction photodetectors by integrating quantum cutting luminescent concentrators	135
Liquid bidentate ligand for full ligand coverage towards efficient near-infrared perovskite quantum dot LEDs	134
Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules	133
A self-assembling nanoplatform for pyroptosis and ferroptosis enhanced cancer photoimmunotherapy	133
Non-convex optimization for inverse problem solving in computer-generated holography	132
Polarisation optics for biomedical and clinical applications: a review	131
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics	130
End-to-end design of multicolor scintillators for enhanced energy resolution in X-ray imaging	130
Transverse mode coupling in monolithic few-mode fiber laser oscillators	128
Universal adaptive optics for microscopy through embedded neural network control	127
Metamaterial-enabled arbitrary on-chip spatial mode manipulation	126
Enhanced multiscale human brain imaging by semi-supervised digital staining and serial sectioning optical coherence tomography	122
Light People: Prof. Juejun Hu, exploring the light	121
1700 nm broadband laser source enables deep brain optical biopsy	121
Creating and moving nanoantenna cold spots anywhere	120
Symmetric private information retrieval supported by quantum-secure key-exchange network	118
Tandem light-emitting technology accelerates the commercial application of perovskite LEDs	118
Broadband infrared imaging governed by guided-mode resonance in dielectric metasurfaces	117
Frequency comb-to-comb stabilization over a 1.3-km free-space atmospheric optical link	117
Deep learning-based virtual staining, segmentation, and classification in label-free photoacoustic histology of human specimens	116
Snapshot multispectral imaging using a diffractive optical network	115
Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry	114
Mid-infrared III–V semiconductor lasers epitaxially grown on Si substrates	114
Using light to image millimeter wave based on stacked meta-MEMS chip	113
Tunnelling of electrons via the neighboring atom	113
Ultrabright near-infrared light	113
Phase-tailored assembly and encoding of dissipative soliton molecules	110
Reconstructive spectrometers taper down in price	109
Deep-trap ultraviolet persistent phosphor for advanced optical storage application in bright environments	106
Mold-free self-assembled scalable microlens arrays with ultrasmooth surface and record-high resolution	106
Transient stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy and imaging	104
Self-powered and broadband opto-sensor with bionic visual adaptation function based on multilayer γ-InSe flakes	104
Efficient second harmonic generation by harnessing bound states in the continuum in semi-nonlinear etchless lithium niobate waveguides	103
Towards higher-dimensional structured light	103
Perovskite single-pixel detector for dual-color metasurface imaging recognition in complex environment	102

Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy	102
Shedding light on biology and healthcare—preface to the special issue on Biomedical Optics	101
Dynamic control and manipulation of near-fields using direct feedback	100
EventLFM: event camera integrated Fourier light field microscopy for ultrafast 3D imaging	100
All-optical permittivity-asymmetric quasi-bound states in the continuum	100
Real-time reconfigurable metasurfaces enabling agile terahertz wave front manipulation	100
Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials	100
Monolithic integration of embedded III-V lasers on SOI	98
Polarization multiplexed diffractive computing: all-optical implementation of a group of linear transformations through a polarization-encoded diffractive network	98
Quantum dot-enabled infrared hyperspectral imaging with single-pixel detection	98
Electro-optic tuning in composite silicon photonics based on ferroionic 2D materials	97
Photonic neuromorphic architecture for tens-of-task lifelong learning	96
Correction: Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges	95
Advance of large-area achromatic flat lenses	94
E2E-BPF microscope: extended depth-of-field microscopy using learning-based implementation of binary phase filter and image deconvolution	91
Programmable optical encryption using thickness-controlled stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers	91