Light-Science & Applications

Article	Citations
Light People: Professor Cheng Zhang	928
Light People: Professor Manijeh Razeghi	422
Doped high-entropy glassy materials to create optical coherence from maximally disordered systems	416
Enhancing spatiotemporal focusing of light deep inside scattering media with Time-Gated Reflection Matrix	404
Light People: Professor John Dudley spoke about supercontinuum generation and International Day of Light	375
Efficient ultrafast laser writing with elliptical polarization	338
Quantum imaging with ultra-thin metasurfaces	338
Strong-field photoelectron holography in the subcycle limit	332
Comment on “Early cancer detection by serum biomolecular fingerprinting spectroscopy with machine learning”	318
Non-reciprocal response in silicon photonic resonators integrated with 2D CuCrP2S6 at short-wave infrared	267
Celebrate a decade of publishing: ten things in ten years	263
Dimensionality-enhanced mid-infrared light vortex detection based on multilayer graphene	259
Learnable digital signal processing: a new benchmark of linearity compensation for optical fiber communications	230
Thickness bound for nonlocal wide-field-of-view metalenses	227
Dose-efficient scanning Compton X-ray microscopy	220
Advancing lasers in silicon photonics	218
Observing half-integer topological winding numbers in non-Hermitian synthetic lattices	209
Aberration-robust monocular passive depth sensing using a meta-imaging camera	202
Quantum correlation-enhanced dual-comb spectroscopy	199
Fractal photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators to generate multiple quantum chiral edge states	198
Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10−6 noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification	198
New soliton dynamics revealed in the normal dispersion region	184
Long-range-interacting topological photonic lattices breaking channel-bandwidth limit	183
Nonlinear Rydberg exciton-polaritons in Cu2O microcavities	182
Polarization modulation with optical lock-in detection reveals universal fluorescence anisotropy of subcellular structures in live cells	179

Image processing with Optical matrix vector multipliers implemented for encoding and decoding tasks	168
Chip-based label-free incoherent super-resolution optical microscopy	166
Non-convex optimization for inverse problem solving in computer-generated holography	158
Generation of squeezed vacuum state in the millihertz frequency band	158
A self-assembling nanoplatform for pyroptosis and ferroptosis enhanced cancer photoimmunotherapy	157
Anneal-free ultra-low loss silicon nitride integrated photonics	156
High-order femtosecond vortices up to the 30th order generated from a powerful mode-locked Hermite-Gaussian laser	149
OLED illuminated metasurfaces for holographic image projection	147
Hot-band absorption of indocyanine green for advanced anti-stokes fluorescence bioimaging	146
Advancing on-chip Kerr optical parametric oscillation towards coherent applications covering the green gap	143
High efficiency pure blue perovskite quantum dot light-emitting diodes based on formamidinium manipulating carrier dynamics and electron state filling	143
All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials	142
From past to future: on-chip laser sources for photonic integrated circuits	138
Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules	138
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics	137
Highly DUV to NIR-II responsive broadband quantum dots heterojunction photodetectors by integrating quantum cutting luminescent concentrators	136
A multi-mode super-fano mechanism for enhanced third harmonic generation in silicon metasurfaces	135
Polarisation optics for biomedical and clinical applications: a review	133
Liquid bidentate ligand for full ligand coverage towards efficient near-infrared perovskite quantum dot LEDs	133
Orbital angular momentum-mediated machine learning for high-accuracy mode-feature encoding	132
Ultrasound sensing with optical microcavities	130
Geometric phase-encoded stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals for visualizing real-time remote monitoring: humidity sensing as a proof of concept	130
Exploiting optical degrees of freedom for information multiplexing in diffractive neural networks	130
Transverse mode coupling in monolithic few-mode fiber laser oscillators	126
15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance through femtosecond-laser spectral engineering and thermal management	126
Ultrabright near-infrared light	125
Perovskite single-pixel detector for dual-color metasurface imaging recognition in complex environment	124
Broadband infrared imaging governed by guided-mode resonance in dielectric metasurfaces	124
Metamaterial-enabled arbitrary on-chip spatial mode manipulation	122
End-to-end design of multicolor scintillators for enhanced energy resolution in X-ray imaging	121
Mold-free self-assembled scalable microlens arrays with ultrasmooth surface and record-high resolution	121
Towards higher-dimensional structured light	120
Self-powered and broadband opto-sensor with bionic visual adaptation function based on multilayer γ-InSe flakes	119
Snapshot multispectral imaging using a diffractive optical network	119
Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry	119
Light People: Prof. Juejun Hu, exploring the light	117
Enhanced multiscale human brain imaging by semi-supervised digital staining and serial sectioning optical coherence tomography	117
1700 nm broadband laser source enables deep brain optical biopsy	116
Creating and moving nanoantenna cold spots anywhere	115
Symmetric private information retrieval supported by quantum-secure key-exchange network	114
Tunnelling of electrons via the neighboring atom	114
Using light to image millimeter wave based on stacked meta-MEMS chip	111
Reconstructive spectrometers taper down in price	110
Transient stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy and imaging	108
Tandem light-emitting technology accelerates the commercial application of perovskite LEDs	107
Frequency comb-to-comb stabilization over a 1.3-km free-space atmospheric optical link	106
Deep learning-based virtual staining, segmentation, and classification in label-free photoacoustic histology of human specimens	106
Universal adaptive optics for microscopy through embedded neural network control	106
Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy	106
Mid-infrared III–V semiconductor lasers epitaxially grown on Si substrates	106

Phase-tailored assembly and encoding of dissipative soliton molecules	104
Deep-trap ultraviolet persistent phosphor for advanced optical storage application in bright environments	103
Efficient second harmonic generation by harnessing bound states in the continuum in semi-nonlinear etchless lithium niobate waveguides	103
Shedding light on biology and healthcare—preface to the special issue on Biomedical Optics	102
Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials	102
Dynamic control and manipulation of near-fields using direct feedback	101
Correction: Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges	101
E2E-BPF microscope: extended depth-of-field microscopy using learning-based implementation of binary phase filter and image deconvolution	100
A multichannel optical computing architecture for advanced machine vision	99
Calibration-free speckle matrix imaging	97
Attentional Ptycho-Tomography (APT) for three-dimensional nanoscale X-ray imaging with minimal data acquisition and computation time	96
“QuanTour” illuminates Europe with single photons: celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025	93
Optical nonlinearity goes ultrafast in 2D semiconductor-based nanocavities	92
Small and simple: next-generation miniaturized diffraction-based spectrometer with computational reconstruction algorithms	91
Passive radiant cooling without sacrificing the aesthetics of objects	91
Author Correction: Graphene-driving strain engineering to enable strain-free epitaxy of AlN film for deep ultraviolet light-emitting diode	89
Intelligent metasurfaces can recognize objects	89
Portable astronomical observation system based on large-aperture concentric-ring metalens	88
Efficient on-chip terahertz generation and detection with GaN photoconductive emitters	88
Quantum computing predicts particle trajectories in optical tweezers	88
Strongly absorbing molecules make tissue transparent: a new insight for understanding tissue optical clearing	88
Visualizing mitochondrial dynamics at the nanoscale	87
Real-time reconfigurable metasurfaces enabling agile terahertz wave front manipulation	86
EventLFM: event camera integrated Fourier light field microscopy for ultrafast 3D imaging	86
Multimodal nonlinear endomicroscopic imaging probe using a double-core double-clad fiber and focus-combining micro-optical concept	85
Shape optimization for high efficiency metasurfaces: theory and implementation	84
Exciton-harvesting enabled efficient charged particle detection in zero-dimensional halides	83
Photonic neuromorphic architecture for tens-of-task lifelong learning	82
Experimental demonstration of 8190-km long-haul semiconductor-laser chaos synchronization induced by digital optical communication signal	81
Bio-inspired micropatterned thermochromic hydrogel for concurrent smart solar transmission and rapid visible-light stealth at all-working temperatures	81
Dynamically tunable long-range coupling enabled by bound state in the continuum	79
All-optical permittivity-asymmetric quasi-bound states in the continuum	79
Polarization multiplexed diffractive computing: all-optical implementation of a group of linear transformations through a polarization-encoded diffractive network	77
A new function of photochromic spiropyran: an efficient photoinitiator for two-photon polymerization	77
Quantum dot-enabled infrared hyperspectral imaging with single-pixel detection	76
Anisotropic leaky-like perturbation with subwavelength gratings enables zero crosstalk	76
Excitation-wavelength-dependent persistent luminescence from single-component nonstoichiometric CaGaxO4:Bi for dynamic anti-counterfeiting	76
Fast, faster, and the fastest structured illumination microscopy	75
Advance of large-area achromatic flat lenses	75
Electro-optic tuning in composite silicon photonics based on ferroionic 2D materials	75
Tunable optical topological transitions of plasmon polaritons in WTe2 van der Waals films	74
Programmable optical encryption using thickness-controlled stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers	74
Visualizing the internalization and biological impact of nanoplastics in live intestinal organoids by Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)	73
Physisorption-assistant optoelectronic synaptic transistors based on Ta2NiSe5/SnS2 heterojunction from ultraviolet to near-infrared	73
Ultrafast near-infrared pyroelectric detector based on inhomogeneous plasmonic metasurface	72
Monolithic integration of embedded III-V lasers on SOI	72
Force measurement goes to femto-Newton sensitivity of single microscopic particle	71
Developing momentum in vanishing index photonics	71
A new member of the structured light family: optical spatiotemporal vortices	71
Visualising the heart of chaos	71
Non-volatile photonic-electronic memory via 3D monolithic ferroelectric-silicon ring resonator	71
Laser-written reconfigurable photonic integrated circuit directly coupled to a single-photon avalanche diode array	70
Light People: Professor Dayong Jin	70
Manipulating cavity photon dynamics by topologically curved space	70
Neural stimulation and modulation with sub-cellular precision by optomechanical bio-dart	70
Two-photon emission from a superlattice-based superconducting light-emitting structure	70
Submonolayer biolasers for ultrasensitive biomarker detection	69
A memristive-photoconductive transduction methodology for accurately nondestructive memory readout	69
An Optoelectronic thermometer based on microscale infrared-to-visible conversion devices	69
A system-on-chip microwave photonic processor solves dynamic RF interference in real time with picosecond latency	69
All-on-chip reconfigurable generation of scalar and vectorial orbital angular momentum beams	69
Chaotic microlasers caused by internal mode interaction for random number generation	68
Plasmonic metafibers electro-optic modulators	67
Light People: Professor Stefan Hell	67
Photo-induced macro/mesoscopic scale ion displacement in mixed-halide perovskites: ring structures and ionic plasma oscillations	67
Tunable liquid crystal grating based holographic 3D display system with wide viewing angle and large size	67
Optical probing of ultrafast laser-induced solid-to-overdense-plasma transitions	66
Pockels laser directly driving ultrafast optical metrology	65
Multifunctional photon conversion materials for enhancing silicon solar cells	65
Perovskite beyond solar: toward novel developments of lasers and detectors for photonic circuits	65
A single-photon source based on topological bulk cavity	64
Wavelength-multiplexed multi-mode EUV reflection ptychography based on automatic differentiation	64
Single-shot compressed optical field topography	64
A whispering-gallery scanning microprobe for Raman spectroscopy and imaging	63
Harnessing the capabilities of VCSELs: unlocking the potential for advanced integrated photonic devices and systems	63
Carbonized polymer dots enhanced stability and flexibility of quasi-2D perovskite photodetector	63
1-Pbps orbital angular momentum fibre-optic transmission	62
Biopsy-free in vivo virtual histology of skin using deep learning	62
Light People: Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu	61
Optical demonstration of quantum fault-tolerant threshold	61

Light People: Professor Guangcan Guo	59
Ultra-compact fiber tapering: plasmonics and structural bending as new combination of heat and pull	59
Adaptive 3D descattering with a dynamic synthesis network	59
Author Correction: Strong nonlinear optical processes with extraordinary polarization anisotropy in inversion-symmetry broken two-dimensional PdPSe	58
Publisher Correction: Calibration-free speckle matrix imaging	58
High brightness terahertz quantum cascade laser with near-diffraction-limited Gaussian beam	57
A wideband, high-resolution vector spectrum analyzer for integrated photonics	57
Quasicrystal metasurface for optical holography and diffraction	57
A 15-user quantum secure direct communication network	56
From light sensing to adaptive learning: hafnium diselenide reconfigurable memcapacitive devices in neuromorphic computing	56
Single 5-nm quantum dot detection via microtoroid optical resonator photothermal microscopy	56
Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer	56
Twisted microdomains in liquid crystals for polarization-insensitive phase modulation	55
Quantum sensing with optically accessible spin defects in van der Waals layered materials	55
Low cross-talk optical addressing of trapped-ion qubits using a novel integrated photonic chip	55
Dual-function perovskite light-emitting/sensing devices for optical interactive display	55
Tunable single emitter-cavity coupling strength through waveguide-assisted energy quantum transfer	55
High-efficiency 90Sr radio-photovoltaic cells based on waveguide light concentration structure	55
A multifunctional optoelectronic device based on 2D material with wide bandgap	54
Lanthanide ion-doped upconversion nanoparticles for low-energy super-resolution applications	54
Vertically stacked skin-like active-matrix display with ultrahigh aperture ratio	54
Multifaceted control of focal points along an arbitrary 3D curved trajectory	54
Surface-emitting lasers meet metasurfaces	54
Cavity-enhanced photoacoustic dual-comb spectroscopy	53
Dispersion coding of ENZ media via multiple photonic dopants	53
Parity-Time symmetry helps breaking a new limit	53
A high-precision multi-dimensional microspectroscopic technique for morphological and properties analysis of cancer cell	53
Versatile optoelectronic memristor based on wide-bandgap Ga2O3 for artificial synapses and neuromorphic computing	53
Rare-earth based materials: an effective toolbox for brain imaging, therapy, monitoring and neuromodulation	53
Rapid species identification of pathogenic bacteria from a minute quantity exploiting three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging and artificial neural network	53
Advancing optothermal manipulation: decoupling temperature and flow fields in quasi-isothermal microscale streaming	53
Twisted phonon polaritons at deep subwavelength scale	53
A versatile interferometric technique for probing the thermophysical properties of complex fluids	53
Recent advances in metasurface design and quantum optics applications with machine learning, physics-informed neural networks, and topology optimization methods	53
Metalens and microtaper spectrometers on a fingertip	53
Revolutionizing solid-state single-photon sources with multifunctional metalenses	53
Programmable electron-induced color router array	52
Giant mid-IR resonant coupling to molecular vibrations in sub-nm gaps of plasmonic multilayer metafilms	52
Unveiling bulk and surface radiation forces in a dielectric liquid	51
Towards high-power mid-IR light source tunable from 3.8 to 4.5 µm by HBr-filled hollow-core silica fibres	51
Precise mode control of laser-written waveguides for broadband, low-dispersion 3D integrated optics	51
Experimental verification of generalized eigenstate thermalization hypothesis in an integrable system	51
Large-scale combinatorial optical barcoding of cells with laser particles	51
Observation of ~100% valley-coherent excitons in monolayer MoS2 through giant enhancement of valley coherence time	51
Terabits without fibres	51
Absolute characterization of high numerical aperture microscope objectives utilizing a dipole scatterer	50
Realization of quantum secure direct communication over 100 km fiber with time-bin and phase quantum states	50
Nonvolatile electrical switching of optical and valleytronic properties of interlayer excitons	50
4th generation synchrotron source boosts crystalline imaging at the nanoscale	50
Parameter estimation of the structured illumination pattern based on principal component analysis (PCA): PCA-SIM	49
Compact multi-foci metalens spectrometer	49
Efficient photon-pair generation in layer-poled lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides	49
Direct demonstration of triplet excimer in purely organic room temperature phosphorescence through rational molecular design	49
Optical sorting: past, present and future	49
Transport of intensity diffraction tomography with non-interferometric synthetic aperture for three-dimensional label-free microscopy	49
A monolithically sculpted van der Waals nano-opto-electro-mechanical coupler	49
Ultra-simplified diffraction-based computational spectrometer	49
Dehydration of plant cells shoves nuclei rotation allowing for 3D phase-contrast tomography	49
Rising complexity of the OAM beam structure as a way to a higher data capacity	48
A compact multi-pixel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector array supporting gigabit space-to-ground communications	48
Light amplified oxidative stress in tumor microenvironment by carbonized hemin nanoparticles for boosting photodynamic anticancer therapy	48
Single-step-fabricated disordered metasurfaces for enhanced light extraction from LEDs	48
Interacting plexcitons for designed ultrafast optical nonlinearity in a monolayer semiconductor	48
Operando ZnO recrystallization for efficient quantum-dot light-emitting diodes	48
Large-scale coherent Ising machine based on optoelectronic parametric oscillator	48
Light People: Prof. Eric Mazur speaks about ultrafast optics and education	47
Impinge Weyl advantages on light	47
Control of light emission of quantum emitters coupled to silicon nanoantenna using cylindrical vector beams	47
Multi-dimensional band structure spectroscopy in the synthetic frequency dimension	47
Versatile chip-based nanoscopy becomes ready for histopathology assessment	46
Fluorescence polarization modulation super-resolution imaging provides refined dynamics orientation processes in biological samples	46
Linear and nonlinear record high optical birefringence in anisotropic van der Waals crystals	46
Quantum CZ gates on a single gradient metasurface	46
Unveiling the lamellar structure of the human cornea over its full thickness using polarization-resolved SHG microscopy	46
Finite barrier bound state	46
Non-contact and nanometer-scale measurement of PN junction depth buried in Si wafers using terahertz emission spectroscopy	46
Intense ultraviolet–visible–infrared full-spectrum laser	46
Omnidirectional color wavelength tuning of stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers	46
Arbitrarily polarized bound states in the continuum with twisted photonic crystal slabs	45
Dielectric Mie voids: confining light in air	45
Multi-millijoule terahertz emission from laser-wakefield-accelerated electrons	45
All-optical generation of static electric field in a single metal-semiconductor nanoantenna	45
Bayesian optimization with Gaussian-process-based active machine learning for improvement of geometric accuracy in projection multi-photon 3D printing	45
From genotype to phenotype: decoding mutations in blasts by holo-tomographic flow cytometry	45
A multiband NIR upconversion core-shell design for enhanced light harvesting of silicon solar cells	45
Observation of transition from superfluorescence to polariton condensation in CsPbBr3 quantum dots film	44
Dynamical control of nanoscale light-matter interactions in low-dimensional quantum materials	44
Electrically pumped surface-emitting amplified spontaneous emission from colloidal quantum dots	44
Self-frequency-conversion nanowire lasers	43
Van der Waals two-color infrared photodetector	43
Expanding chiral metamaterials for retrieving fingerprints via vibrational circular dichroism	43
Integrated sensing and communication in an optical fibre	43
Scalable parallel ultrafast optical random bit generation based on a single chaotic microcomb	43
Deep learning acceleration of multiscale superresolution localization photoacoustic imaging	43
Observation of nonlinear edge states in an interacting atomic trimer array	43