Light-Science & Applications

Article	Citations
Light People: Professor Manijeh Razeghi	958
Light People: Professor Cheng Zhang	431
Quantum imaging with ultra-thin metasurfaces	427
Light People: Professor John Dudley spoke about supercontinuum generation and International Day of Light	405
Doped high-entropy glassy materials to create optical coherence from maximally disordered systems	347
Strong-field photoelectron holography in the subcycle limit	345
Fractal photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators to generate multiple quantum chiral edge states	339
From past to future: on-chip laser sources for photonic integrated circuits	331
Optoelectronic polymer memristors with dynamic control for power-efficient in-sensor edge computing	276
OLED illuminated metasurfaces for holographic image projection	273
Non-convex optimization for inverse problem solving in computer-generated holography	239
Chip-based label-free incoherent super-resolution optical microscopy	239
Orbital angular momentum-mediated machine learning for high-accuracy mode-feature encoding	230
Nonlinear Rydberg exciton-polaritons in Cu2O microcavities	220
Long-range-interacting topological photonic lattices breaking channel-bandwidth limit	215
Liquid bidentate ligand for full ligand coverage towards efficient near-infrared perovskite quantum dot LEDs	212
Comment on “Early cancer detection by serum biomolecular fingerprinting spectroscopy with machine learning”	207
All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials	206
Advancing lasers in silicon photonics	204
New soliton dynamics revealed in the normal dispersion region	191
High-order femtosecond vortices up to the 30th order generated from a powerful mode-locked Hermite-Gaussian laser	191
Geometric phase-encoded stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals for visualizing real-time remote monitoring: humidity sensing as a proof of concept	184
Aberration-robust monocular passive depth sensing using a meta-imaging camera	177
Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10−6 noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification	173
Thickness bound for nonlocal wide-field-of-view metalenses	169

Generation of squeezed vacuum state in the millihertz frequency band	168
A self-assembling nanoplatform for pyroptosis and ferroptosis enhanced cancer photoimmunotherapy	164
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics	162
Anneal-free ultra-low loss silicon nitride integrated photonics	159
Dimensionality-enhanced mid-infrared light vortex detection based on multilayer graphene	150
Learnable digital signal processing: a new benchmark of linearity compensation for optical fiber communications	149
Polarization modulation with optical lock-in detection reveals universal fluorescence anisotropy of subcellular structures in live cells	147
Non-reciprocal response in silicon photonic resonators integrated with 2D CuCrP2S6 at short-wave infrared	145
Celebrate a decade of publishing: ten things in ten years	145
Quantum correlation-enhanced dual-comb spectroscopy	144
Enhancing spatiotemporal focusing of light deep inside scattering media with Time-Gated Reflection Matrix	144
Observing half-integer topological winding numbers in non-Hermitian synthetic lattices	144
Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules	143
Advancing on-chip Kerr optical parametric oscillation towards coherent applications covering the green gap	143
Image processing with Optical matrix vector multipliers implemented for encoding and decoding tasks	141
A multi-mode super-fano mechanism for enhanced third harmonic generation in silicon metasurfaces	141
Highly DUV to NIR-II responsive broadband quantum dots heterojunction photodetectors by integrating quantum cutting luminescent concentrators	140
High efficiency pure blue perovskite quantum dot light-emitting diodes based on formamidinium manipulating carrier dynamics and electron state filling	139
Exploiting optical degrees of freedom for information multiplexing in diffractive neural networks	137
Ultrasound sensing with optical microcavities	132
Efficient ultrafast laser writing with elliptical polarization	131
Dose-efficient scanning Compton X-ray microscopy	130
Enhanced multiscale human brain imaging by semi-supervised digital staining and serial sectioning optical coherence tomography	129
Mid-infrared III–V semiconductor lasers epitaxially grown on Si substrates	128
Ultrabright near-infrared light	127
Construction of optical spatiotemporal skyrmions	127
Tandem light-emitting technology accelerates the commercial application of perovskite LEDs	127
Using light to image millimeter wave based on stacked meta-MEMS chip	127
15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance through femtosecond-laser spectral engineering and thermal management	126
Transverse mode coupling in monolithic few-mode fiber laser oscillators	124
Metamaterial-enabled arbitrary on-chip spatial mode manipulation	124
Light People: Prof. Juejun Hu, exploring the light	123
Creating and moving nanoantenna cold spots anywhere	122
1700 nm broadband laser source enables deep brain optical biopsy	122
Symmetric private information retrieval supported by quantum-secure key-exchange network	121
Snapshot multispectral imaging using a diffractive optical network	119
Electrodynamics of photonic temporal interfaces	119
Frequency comb-to-comb stabilization over a 1.3-km free-space atmospheric optical link	116
Transient stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy and imaging	115
Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry	115
Phase-tailored assembly and encoding of dissipative soliton molecules	115
Self-powered and broadband opto-sensor with bionic visual adaptation function based on multilayer γ-InSe flakes	114
Mold-free self-assembled scalable microlens arrays with ultrasmooth surface and record-high resolution	113
Broadband infrared imaging governed by guided-mode resonance in dielectric metasurfaces	111
End-to-end design of multicolor scintillators for enhanced energy resolution in X-ray imaging	110
Reconstructive spectrometers taper down in price	109
Deep learning-based virtual staining, segmentation, and classification in label-free photoacoustic histology of human specimens	108
Deep-trap ultraviolet persistent phosphor for advanced optical storage application in bright environments	108
Tunnelling of electrons via the neighboring atom	108
Perovskite single-pixel detector for dual-color metasurface imaging recognition in complex environment	108

Efficient second harmonic generation by harnessing bound states in the continuum in semi-nonlinear etchless lithium niobate waveguides	104
Universal adaptive optics for microscopy through embedded neural network control	104
Towards higher-dimensional structured light	103
Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy	103
Shedding light on biology and healthcare—preface to the special issue on Biomedical Optics	101
Correction: Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges	99
Real-time reconfigurable metasurfaces enabling agile terahertz wave front manipulation	96
Visualizing the internalization and biological impact of nanoplastics in live intestinal organoids by Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)	95
Strongly absorbing molecules make tissue transparent: a new insight for understanding tissue optical clearing	94
Experimental demonstration of 8190-km long-haul semiconductor-laser chaos synchronization induced by digital optical communication signal	92
Dynamically tunable long-range coupling enabled by bound state in the continuum	91
A new function of photochromic spiropyran: an efficient photoinitiator for two-photon polymerization	91
Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials	90
Fast, faster, and the fastest structured illumination microscopy	90
Programmable optical encryption using thickness-controlled stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers	90
Calibration-free speckle matrix imaging	89
Dynamic control and manipulation of near-fields using direct feedback	89
Efficient on-chip terahertz generation and detection with GaN photoconductive emitters	89
“QuanTour” illuminates Europe with single photons: celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025	88
Attentional Ptycho-Tomography (APT) for three-dimensional nanoscale X-ray imaging with minimal data acquisition and computation time	88
Small and simple: next-generation miniaturized diffraction-based spectrometer with computational reconstruction algorithms	82
Author Correction: Graphene-driving strain engineering to enable strain-free epitaxy of AlN film for deep ultraviolet light-emitting diode	81
Intelligent metasurfaces can recognize objects	81
Anisotropic leaky-like perturbation with subwavelength gratings enables zero crosstalk	80
Optical nonlinearity goes ultrafast in 2D semiconductor-based nanocavities	80
Passive radiant cooling without sacrificing the aesthetics of objects	80
All-optical permittivity-asymmetric quasi-bound states in the continuum	79
Tunable optical topological transitions of plasmon polaritons in WTe2 van der Waals films	78
Portable astronomical observation system based on large-aperture concentric-ring metalens	78
Advance of large-area achromatic flat lenses	78
Physisorption-assistant optoelectronic synaptic transistors based on Ta2NiSe5/SnS2 heterojunction from ultraviolet to near-infrared	77
Bio-inspired micropatterned thermochromic hydrogel for concurrent smart solar transmission and rapid visible-light stealth at all-working temperatures	77
Visualizing mitochondrial dynamics at the nanoscale	76
Light People | Prof. Wei Lu spoke about infrared physics	76
Light people: professor Fei Ding	76
Multimodal nonlinear endomicroscopic imaging probe using a double-core double-clad fiber and focus-combining micro-optical concept	75
EventLFM: event camera integrated Fourier light field microscopy for ultrafast 3D imaging	75
E2E-BPF microscope: extended depth-of-field microscopy using learning-based implementation of binary phase filter and image deconvolution	74
Shape optimization for high efficiency metasurfaces: theory and implementation	74
A multichannel optical computing architecture for advanced machine vision	74
Quantum computing predicts particle trajectories in optical tweezers	74
Quantum dot-enabled infrared hyperspectral imaging with single-pixel detection	73
Electro-optic tuning in composite silicon photonics based on ferroionic 2D materials	72
Excitation-wavelength-dependent persistent luminescence from single-component nonstoichiometric CaGaxO4:Bi for dynamic anti-counterfeiting	72
Monolithic integration of embedded III-V lasers on SOI	72
Exciton-harvesting enabled efficient charged particle detection in zero-dimensional halides	72
Polarization multiplexed diffractive computing: all-optical implementation of a group of linear transformations through a polarization-encoded diffractive network	71
Ultrafast near-infrared pyroelectric detector based on inhomogeneous plasmonic metasurface	71
Non-volatile photonic-electronic memory via 3D monolithic ferroelectric-silicon ring resonator	71
Photonic neuromorphic architecture for tens-of-task lifelong learning	71
A new member of the structured light family: optical spatiotemporal vortices	71
Developing momentum in vanishing index photonics	71
Force measurement goes to femto-Newton sensitivity of single microscopic particle	71
Laser-written reconfigurable photonic integrated circuit directly coupled to a single-photon avalanche diode array	70
Visualising the heart of chaos	70
Light People: Professor Dayong Jin	69
A memristive-photoconductive transduction methodology for accurately nondestructive memory readout	69
Neural stimulation and modulation with sub-cellular precision by optomechanical bio-dart	69
Optical probing of ultrafast laser-induced solid-to-overdense-plasma transitions	67
A whispering-gallery scanning microprobe for Raman spectroscopy and imaging	67
All-on-chip reconfigurable generation of scalar and vectorial orbital angular momentum beams	67
Chaotic microlasers caused by internal mode interaction for random number generation	67
Manipulating cavity photon dynamics by topologically curved space	67
Carbonized polymer dots enhanced stability and flexibility of quasi-2D perovskite photodetector	66
A single-photon source based on topological bulk cavity	65
Two-photon emission from a superlattice-based superconducting light-emitting structure	65
Wavelength-multiplexed multi-mode EUV reflection ptychography based on automatic differentiation	65
A system-on-chip microwave photonic processor solves dynamic RF interference in real time with picosecond latency	63
Light People: Professor Stefan Hell	63
Submonolayer biolasers for ultrasensitive biomarker detection	61
An Optoelectronic thermometer based on microscale infrared-to-visible conversion devices	61
Plasmonic metafibers electro-optic modulators	60
Photo-induced macro/mesoscopic scale ion displacement in mixed-halide perovskites: ring structures and ionic plasma oscillations	60
Perovskite beyond solar: toward novel developments of lasers and detectors for photonic circuits	60
Multifunctional photon conversion materials for enhancing silicon solar cells	59
Single-shot compressed optical field topography	59
Interface second harmonic generation enhancement in bulk WS2/MoS2 hetero-bilayer van der Waals nanoantennas	59
Biopsy-free in vivo virtual histology of skin using deep learning	59
Shaping the light of VCSELs through cavity geometry design	59
Tunable liquid crystal grating based holographic 3D display system with wide viewing angle and large size	58

1-Pbps orbital angular momentum fibre-optic transmission	58
Pockels laser directly driving ultrafast optical metrology	58
Harnessing the capabilities of VCSELs: unlocking the potential for advanced integrated photonic devices and systems	58
Optical demonstration of quantum fault-tolerant threshold	57
Adaptive 3D descattering with a dynamic synthesis network	57
Multifaceted control of focal points along an arbitrary 3D curved trajectory	57
Ultra-compact fiber tapering: plasmonics and structural bending as new combination of heat and pull	57
Cavity-enhanced photoacoustic dual-comb spectroscopy	57
Lanthanide ion-doped upconversion nanoparticles for low-energy super-resolution applications	57
Light People: Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu	57
Author Correction: Strong nonlinear optical processes with extraordinary polarization anisotropy in inversion-symmetry broken two-dimensional PdPSe	57
Rare-earth based materials: an effective toolbox for brain imaging, therapy, monitoring and neuromodulation	57
From light sensing to adaptive learning: hafnium diselenide reconfigurable memcapacitive devices in neuromorphic computing	56
Versatile optoelectronic memristor based on wide-bandgap Ga2O3 for artificial synapses and neuromorphic computing	56
Quantum sensing with optically accessible spin defects in van der Waals layered materials	56
Twisted microdomains in liquid crystals for polarization-insensitive phase modulation	56
High-efficiency 90Sr radio-photovoltaic cells based on waveguide light concentration structure	56
A high-precision multi-dimensional microspectroscopic technique for morphological and properties analysis of cancer cell	56
A multifunctional optoelectronic device based on 2D material with wide bandgap	56
Single 5-nm quantum dot detection via microtoroid optical resonator photothermal microscopy	55
Vertically stacked skin-like active-matrix display with ultrahigh aperture ratio	55
Surface-emitting lasers meet metasurfaces	55
A versatile interferometric technique for probing the thermophysical properties of complex fluids	55
Light People: Professor Guangcan Guo	55
Dual-function perovskite light-emitting/sensing devices for optical interactive display	55
Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer	54
Publisher Correction: Calibration-free speckle matrix imaging	54
Low cross-talk optical addressing of trapped-ion qubits using a novel integrated photonic chip	54
A wideband, high-resolution vector spectrum analyzer for integrated photonics	54
Dispersion coding of ENZ media via multiple photonic dopants	54
Tunable single emitter-cavity coupling strength through waveguide-assisted energy quantum transfer	54
Quasicrystal metasurface for optical holography and diffraction	54
High brightness terahertz quantum cascade laser with near-diffraction-limited Gaussian beam	53
Recent advances in metasurface design and quantum optics applications with machine learning, physics-informed neural networks, and topology optimization methods	53
Rapid species identification of pathogenic bacteria from a minute quantity exploiting three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging and artificial neural network	53
Revolutionizing solid-state single-photon sources with multifunctional metalenses	53
Twisted phonon polaritons at deep subwavelength scale	53
Advancing optothermal manipulation: decoupling temperature and flow fields in quasi-isothermal microscale streaming	53
Towards high-power mid-IR light source tunable from 3.8 to 4.5 µm by HBr-filled hollow-core silica fibres	52
Precise mode control of laser-written waveguides for broadband, low-dispersion 3D integrated optics	52
Metalens and microtaper spectrometers on a fingertip	52
Experimental verification of generalized eigenstate thermalization hypothesis in an integrable system	52
A monolithically sculpted van der Waals nano-opto-electro-mechanical coupler	52
Absolute characterization of high numerical aperture microscope objectives utilizing a dipole scatterer	51
Nonvolatile electrical switching of optical and valleytronic properties of interlayer excitons	51
Direct demonstration of triplet excimer in purely organic room temperature phosphorescence through rational molecular design	51
Large-scale combinatorial optical barcoding of cells with laser particles	51
Unveiling bulk and surface radiation forces in a dielectric liquid	51
Programmable electron-induced color router array	51
Terabits without fibres	51
Water-insensitive down-shifting nanoparticles for sensitive biosensing	51
Transport of intensity diffraction tomography with non-interferometric synthetic aperture for three-dimensional label-free microscopy	50
Operando ZnO recrystallization for efficient quantum-dot light-emitting diodes	50
Parameter estimation of the structured illumination pattern based on principal component analysis (PCA): PCA-SIM	50
Realization of quantum secure direct communication over 100 km fiber with time-bin and phase quantum states	50
4th generation synchrotron source boosts crystalline imaging at the nanoscale	50
Observation of ~100% valley-coherent excitons in monolayer MoS2 through giant enhancement of valley coherence time	49
Efficient photon-pair generation in layer-poled lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides	49
Compact multi-foci metalens spectrometer	49
Parity-Time symmetry helps breaking a new limit	49
Giant mid-IR resonant coupling to molecular vibrations in sub-nm gaps of plasmonic multilayer metafilms	49
Optical sorting: past, present and future	49
Ultra-simplified diffraction-based computational spectrometer	48
Control of light emission of quantum emitters coupled to silicon nanoantenna using cylindrical vector beams	48
Light amplified oxidative stress in tumor microenvironment by carbonized hemin nanoparticles for boosting photodynamic anticancer therapy	48
Rising complexity of the OAM beam structure as a way to a higher data capacity	48
Versatile chip-based nanoscopy becomes ready for histopathology assessment	47
Impinge Weyl advantages on light	47
Non-contact and nanometer-scale measurement of PN junction depth buried in Si wafers using terahertz emission spectroscopy	47
Finite barrier bound state	47
Quantum CZ gates on a single gradient metasurface	47
Fluorescence polarization modulation super-resolution imaging provides refined dynamics orientation processes in biological samples	47
Intense ultraviolet–visible–infrared full-spectrum laser	47
Omnidirectional color wavelength tuning of stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers	47
Electrically pumped surface-emitting amplified spontaneous emission from colloidal quantum dots	46
Linear and nonlinear record high optical birefringence in anisotropic van der Waals crystals	46
Light People: Prof. Eric Mazur speaks about ultrafast optics and education	46
Multi-millijoule terahertz emission from laser-wakefield-accelerated electrons	46
Scalable parallel ultrafast optical random bit generation based on a single chaotic microcomb	46
Room-temperature waveguide-integrated photodetector using bolometric effect for mid-infrared spectroscopy applications	45
Interacting plexcitons for designed ultrafast optical nonlinearity in a monolayer semiconductor	45
On-chip single-crystal plasmonic optoelectronics for efficient hot carrier collection and photovoltage detection	45
All-optical generation of static electric field in a single metal-semiconductor nanoantenna	45
Self-frequency-conversion nanowire lasers	45
An open invisible space enabled by reconfigurable metasurfaces and self-play reinforcement learning	45
From genotype to phenotype: decoding mutations in blasts by holo-tomographic flow cytometry	45
Highly-efficient (>70%) and Wide-spectral (400–1700 nm) sub-micron-thick InGaAs photodiodes for future high-resolution image sensors	44
Large-scale coherent Ising machine based on optoelectronic parametric oscillator	44
Quantitative phase imaging through an ultra-thin lensless fiber endoscope	44
Observation of nonlinear edge states in an interacting atomic trimer array	43
Unveiling the lamellar structure of the human cornea over its full thickness using polarization-resolved SHG microscopy	43
Observation of transition from superfluorescence to polariton condensation in CsPbBr3 quantum dots film	43
Expanding chiral metamaterials for retrieving fingerprints via vibrational circular dichroism	43
Hybrid magnetic resonance and optoacoustic tomography (MROT) for preclinical neuroimaging	43
Multi-dimensional band structure spectroscopy in the synthetic frequency dimension	43