Light-Science & Applications

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
Learnable digital signal processing: a new benchmark of linearity compensation for optical fiber communications	146
Miniature planar telescopes for efficient, wide-angle, high-precision beam steering	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
Tunnelling of electrons via the neighboring atom	118
Perovskite single-pixel detector for dual-color metasurface imaging recognition in complex environment	118
Frequency comb-to-comb stabilization over a 1.3-km free-space atmospheric optical link	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
Creating and moving nanoantenna cold spots anywhere	107
Symmetric private information retrieval supported by quantum-secure key-exchange network	107
1700 nm broadband laser source enables deep brain optical biopsy	107
Metamaterial-enabled arbitrary on-chip spatial mode manipulation	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
Multimodal nonlinear endomicroscopic imaging probe using a double-core double-clad fiber and focus-combining micro-optical concept	93
Strongly absorbing molecules make tissue transparent: a new insight for understanding tissue optical clearing	93
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
Tunable optical topological transitions of plasmon polaritons in WTe2 van der Waals films	92
Monolithic integration of embedded III-V lasers on SOI	90
Photonic neuromorphic architecture for tens-of-task lifelong learning	90
A multichannel optical computing architecture for advanced machine vision	89
Observing quantum coherence from photons scattered in free-space	89
Ultrafast near-infrared pyroelectric detector based on inhomogeneous plasmonic metasurface	88
Exciton-harvesting enabled efficient charged particle detection in zero-dimensional halides	86
Shape optimization for high efficiency metasurfaces: theory and implementation	85
Physisorption-assistant optoelectronic synaptic transistors based on Ta2NiSe5/SnS2 heterojunction from ultraviolet to near-infrared	83
Programmable optical encryption using thickness-controlled stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers	83
Calibration-free speckle matrix imaging	82
Advance of large-area achromatic flat lenses	81
Real-time reconfigurable metasurfaces enabling agile terahertz wave front manipulation	81
EventLFM: event camera integrated Fourier light field microscopy for ultrafast 3D imaging	81
“QuanTour” illuminates Europe with single photons: celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025	81
Attentional Ptycho-Tomography (APT) for three-dimensional nanoscale X-ray imaging with minimal data acquisition and computation time	81
Optical nonlinearity goes ultrafast in 2D semiconductor-based nanocavities	80
Passive radiant cooling without sacrificing the aesthetics of objects	80
Experimental demonstration of 8190-km long-haul semiconductor-laser chaos synchronization induced by digital optical communication signal	80
Small and simple: next-generation miniaturized diffraction-based spectrometer with computational reconstruction algorithms	79
Visualizing mitochondrial dynamics at the nanoscale	78
Intelligent metasurfaces can recognize objects	77
Portable astronomical observation system based on large-aperture concentric-ring metalens	77
Correction: Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges	76
Author Correction: Graphene-driving strain engineering to enable strain-free epitaxy of AlN film for deep ultraviolet light-emitting diode	75
Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials	75
Anisotropic leaky-like perturbation with subwavelength gratings enables zero crosstalk	74
E2E-BPF microscope: extended depth-of-field microscopy using learning-based implementation of binary phase filter and image deconvolution	74
Bio-inspired micropatterned thermochromic hydrogel for concurrent smart solar transmission and rapid visible-light stealth at all-working temperatures	72
Quantum dot-enabled infrared hyperspectral imaging with single-pixel detection	72
Excitation-wavelength-dependent persistent luminescence from single-component nonstoichiometric CaGaxO4:Bi for dynamic anti-counterfeiting	71
Dynamic control and manipulation of near-fields using direct feedback	70
Precursor-dependent structural diversity in luminescent carbonized polymer dots (CPDs): the nomenclature	70
Light People: Professor Stefan Hell	70
Developing momentum in vanishing index photonics	69
A memristive-photoconductive transduction methodology for accurately nondestructive memory readout	68
A new member of the structured light family: optical spatiotemporal vortices	67
Double-bowl state in photonic Dirac nodal line semimetal	67
Non-volatile photonic-electronic memory via 3D monolithic ferroelectric-silicon ring resonator	67
Force measurement goes to femto-Newton sensitivity of single microscopic particle	67
Optical probing of ultrafast laser-induced solid-to-overdense-plasma transitions	67
Plasmonic metafibers electro-optic modulators	66
Carbonized polymer dots enhanced stability and flexibility of quasi-2D perovskite photodetector	65
An Optoelectronic thermometer based on microscale infrared-to-visible conversion devices	65
Two-photon emission from a superlattice-based superconducting light-emitting structure	65
Visualising the heart of chaos	65
Light People: Professor Dayong Jin	64
Chaotic microlasers caused by internal mode interaction for random number generation	63
Single-shot compressed optical field topography	63
Photo-induced macro/mesoscopic scale ion displacement in mixed-halide perovskites: ring structures and ionic plasma oscillations	63
Manipulating cavity photon dynamics by topologically curved space	63
1-Pbps orbital angular momentum fibre-optic transmission	63
Anti-scattering light focusing by fast wavefront shaping based on multi-pixel encoded digital-micromirror device	62
A system-on-chip microwave photonic processor solves dynamic RF interference in real time with picosecond latency	62
Neural stimulation and modulation with sub-cellular precision by optomechanical bio-dart	62
Submonolayer biolasers for ultrasensitive biomarker detection	62
A whispering-gallery scanning microprobe for Raman spectroscopy and imaging	62
Biopsy-free in vivo virtual histology of skin using deep learning	62
Excitation spectral microscopy for highly multiplexed fluorescence imaging and quantitative biosensing	61
Tunable liquid crystal grating based holographic 3D display system with wide viewing angle and large size	61
Perovskite beyond solar: toward novel developments of lasers and detectors for photonic circuits	61
Adaptive 3D descattering with a dynamic synthesis network	60
Harnessing the capabilities of VCSELs: unlocking the potential for advanced integrated photonic devices and systems	60
Multifunctional photon conversion materials for enhancing silicon solar cells	60
Publisher Correction: Calibration-free speckle matrix imaging	60
Light People: Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu	60
Dispersion coding of ENZ media via multiple photonic dopants	60
Quasicrystal metasurface for optical holography and diffraction	60
Wavelength-multiplexed multi-mode EUV reflection ptychography based on automatic differentiation	60
Optical demonstration of quantum fault-tolerant threshold	60
Ultra-compact fiber tapering: plasmonics and structural bending as new combination of heat and pull	59

Twisted microdomains in liquid crystals for polarization-insensitive phase modulation	59
Low cross-talk optical addressing of trapped-ion qubits using a novel integrated photonic chip	59
Light People: Professor Guangcan Guo	59
Surface-emitting lasers meet metasurfaces	59
A high-precision multi-dimensional microspectroscopic technique for morphological and properties analysis of cancer cell	58
Author Correction: Reconfigurable beam system for non-line-of-sight free-space optical communication	58
Vertically stacked skin-like active-matrix display with ultrahigh aperture ratio	58
Rapid species identification of pathogenic bacteria from a minute quantity exploiting three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging and artificial neural network	58
0.75 Gbit/s high-speed classical key distribution with mode-shift keying chaos synchronization of Fabry–Perot lasers	58
Dual-resonance enhanced quantum light-matter interactions in deterministically coupled quantum-dot-micropillars	57
Cavity-enhanced photoacoustic dual-comb spectroscopy	57
Multifaceted control of focal points along an arbitrary 3D curved trajectory	57
Versatile optoelectronic memristor based on wide-bandgap Ga2O3 for artificial synapses and neuromorphic computing	57
A versatile interferometric technique for probing the thermophysical properties of complex fluids	56
Tunable single emitter-cavity coupling strength through waveguide-assisted energy quantum transfer	56
High brightness terahertz quantum cascade laser with near-diffraction-limited Gaussian beam	54
Dual-function perovskite light-emitting/sensing devices for optical interactive display	54
Author Correction: Strong nonlinear optical processes with extraordinary polarization anisotropy in inversion-symmetry broken two-dimensional PdPSe	54
Rare-earth based materials: an effective toolbox for brain imaging, therapy, monitoring and neuromodulation	54
Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer	54
A multifunctional optoelectronic device based on 2D material with wide bandgap	53
Quantum sensing with optically accessible spin defects in van der Waals layered materials	53
A 15-user quantum secure direct communication network	53
Planar liquid crystal polarization optics for near-eye displays	52
Lanthanide ion-doped upconversion nanoparticles for low-energy super-resolution applications	52
Recent advances in metasurface design and quantum optics applications with machine learning, physics-informed neural networks, and topology optimization methods	52
A wideband, high-resolution vector spectrum analyzer for integrated photonics	52
From light sensing to adaptive learning: hafnium diselenide reconfigurable memcapacitive devices in neuromorphic computing	52
Single 5-nm quantum dot detection via microtoroid optical resonator photothermal microscopy	51
Programmable electron-induced color router array	51
Metalens and microtaper spectrometers on a fingertip	50
Absolute characterization of high numerical aperture microscope objectives utilizing a dipole scatterer	50
Parity-Time symmetry helps breaking a new limit	50
Dehydration of plant cells shoves nuclei rotation allowing for 3D phase-contrast tomography	49
Experimental verification of generalized eigenstate thermalization hypothesis in an integrable system	49
Twisted phonon polaritons at deep subwavelength scale	49
4th generation synchrotron source boosts crystalline imaging at the nanoscale	49
Large-scale combinatorial optical barcoding of cells with laser particles	49
Towards high-power mid-IR light source tunable from 3.8 to 4.5 µm by HBr-filled hollow-core silica fibres	49
Giant mid-IR resonant coupling to molecular vibrations in sub-nm gaps of plasmonic multilayer metafilms	48
Revolutionizing solid-state single-photon sources with multifunctional metalenses	48
Precise mode control of laser-written waveguides for broadband, low-dispersion 3D integrated optics	48
Freeform imaging systems: Fermat’s principle unlocks “first time right” design	48
Advancing optothermal manipulation: decoupling temperature and flow fields in quasi-isothermal microscale streaming	48
Observation of ~100% valley-coherent excitons in monolayer MoS2 through giant enhancement of valley coherence time	48
Light amplified oxidative stress in tumor microenvironment by carbonized hemin nanoparticles for boosting photodynamic anticancer therapy	48
Unveiling bulk and surface radiation forces in a dielectric liquid	48
A monolithically sculpted van der Waals nano-opto-electro-mechanical coupler	47
Single-step-fabricated disordered metasurfaces for enhanced light extraction from LEDs	47
Non-genetic photoacoustic stimulation of single neurons by a tapered fiber optoacoustic emitter	47
Realization of quantum secure direct communication over 100 km fiber with time-bin and phase quantum states	47
Direct demonstration of triplet excimer in purely organic room temperature phosphorescence through rational molecular design	47
Transport of intensity diffraction tomography with non-interferometric synthetic aperture for three-dimensional label-free microscopy	46
Multifunctional metasurfaces enabled by simultaneous and independent control of phase and amplitude for orthogonal polarization states	46
Nonvolatile electrical switching of optical and valleytronic properties of interlayer excitons	46
Ultra-broadband metamaterial absorbers from long to very long infrared regime	46
Compact multi-foci metalens spectrometer	46
Neural network-based image reconstruction in swept-source optical coherence tomography using undersampled spectral data	46
Parameter estimation of the structured illumination pattern based on principal component analysis (PCA): PCA-SIM	46
Optical sorting: past, present and future	46
Light People: Prof. Eric Mazur speaks about ultrafast optics and education	45
Room-temperature waveguide-integrated photodetector using bolometric effect for mid-infrared spectroscopy applications	45
Bayesian optimization with Gaussian-process-based active machine learning for improvement of geometric accuracy in projection multi-photon 3D printing	45
Ultra-simplified diffraction-based computational spectrometer	45
Rising complexity of the OAM beam structure as a way to a higher data capacity	45
Efficient photon-pair generation in layer-poled lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides	45
Control of light emission of quantum emitters coupled to silicon nanoantenna using cylindrical vector beams	44
Linear and nonlinear record high optical birefringence in anisotropic van der Waals crystals	44
Finite barrier bound state	44
A roadmap for interlayer excitons	44
A multiband NIR upconversion core-shell design for enhanced light harvesting of silicon solar cells	43
Hybrid magnetic resonance and optoacoustic tomography (MROT) for preclinical neuroimaging	43
Impinge Weyl advantages on light	43
Self-frequency-conversion nanowire lasers	43
Omnidirectional color wavelength tuning of stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers	43
Versatile chip-based nanoscopy becomes ready for histopathology assessment	43
A compact multi-pixel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector array supporting gigabit space-to-ground communications	43
Unveiling the lamellar structure of the human cornea over its full thickness using polarization-resolved SHG microscopy	43
All-optical generation of static electric field in a single metal-semiconductor nanoantenna	43
Large-scale coherent Ising machine based on optoelectronic parametric oscillator	42
Fluorescence polarization modulation super-resolution imaging provides refined dynamics orientation processes in biological samples	42
Interacting plexcitons for designed ultrafast optical nonlinearity in a monolayer semiconductor	42
Planarized THz quantum cascade lasers for broadband coherent photonics	42
Holo-imprinting polarization optics with a reflective liquid crystal hologram template	42
Dynamical control of nanoscale light-matter interactions in low-dimensional quantum materials	42
Quantitative phase imaging through an ultra-thin lensless fiber endoscope	42
Intense ultraviolet–visible–infrared full-spectrum laser	42
Multi-dimensional band structure spectroscopy in the synthetic frequency dimension	42
Integrated sensing and communication in an optical fibre	41
Arbitrarily polarized bound states in the continuum with twisted photonic crystal slabs	41
Observation of transition from superfluorescence to polariton condensation in CsPbBr3 quantum dots film	41
Highly-efficient (>70%) and Wide-spectral (400–1700 nm) sub-micron-thick InGaAs photodiodes for future high-resolution image sensors	41
Controlled on-chip fabrication of large-scale perovskite single crystal arrays for high-performance laser and photodetector integration	41
Van der Waals two-color infrared photodetector	41
Expanding chiral metamaterials for retrieving fingerprints via vibrational circular dichroism	41