Nature Photonics

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Photonics is 8. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lasers clean up graffiti506
Photonics celebrates double Nobel Prize achievement493
Publisher Correction: Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser481
The race for wakefield-driven FELs456
All-optical polarization switching in ferroelectrics423
Deconvolution enhances fluctuation detection421
Small tunable X-ray sources may have large impact406
Converting qubits349
Triangle-beam interference structured illumination microscopy344
Quasi-phase-matched up- and down-conversion in periodically poled layered semiconductors330
On the simultaneous scattering of two photons by a single two-level atom314
Solvent-assisted reaction for spontaneous defect passivation in perovskite solar cells305
Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence292
Photons learn to classify with a quantum edge287
Lithography-free reconfigurable photonic processor255
Spatio-temporal control of incoherent light with metasurfaces249
Coherent control of ultrafast extreme ultraviolet transient absorption240
Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate239
Topological orbital angular momentum extraction and twofold protection of vortex transport226
Observation of loss-enhanced magneto-optical effect214
Room-temperature upconverted superfluorescence213
Novel light manipulation209
Harnessing plasma absorption in silicon MOS ring modulators202
Author Correction: A ferroelectric multilevel non-volatile photonic phase shifter201
Femtosecond laser writes a broadband miniaturized isolator198
A photonic quantum engine driven by superradiance194
A bit of gain, electrically injected193
Towards efficient, scalable and stable perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells191
Electrically tunable nonlinear polaritonic metasurface191
Ultrafast energy exchange between two single Rydberg atoms on a nanosecond timescale178
Observation of light-driven band structure via multiband high-harmonic spectroscopy176
Photon-number entanglement generated by sequential excitation of a two-level atom176
Resource-efficient photonic quantum computation with high-dimensional cluster states174
Ångström-tunable polarization-resolved solid-state photon sources174
New nonlinear opportunities in the ultraviolet173
Cascaded hard X-ray self-seeded free-electron laser at megahertz repetition rate167
High-power AlGaN deep-ultraviolet micro-light-emitting diode displays for maskless photolithography166
Room-temperature electrically switchable spin–valley coupling in a van der Waals ferroelectric halide perovskite with persistent spin helix162
Chiral phonons in microcrystals and nanofibrils of biomolecules162
Minute-scale Schrödinger-cat state of spin-5/2 atoms160
High-rate quantum key distribution exceeding 110 Mb s–1159
Light sheets for continuous-depth holography and three-dimensional volumetric displays159
Additive treatment yields high-performance lead-free perovskite light-emitting diodes153
Unlocking an optical bistability switch151
Plasmonics commercialized?149
Microdroplet manipulation148
Single-photon detection surprise147
Wide-field coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy using random illuminations145
Super-resolution microscopy at its sharpest144
Publisher Correction: Femtojoule femtosecond all-optical switching in lithium niobate nanophotonics143
A bright future for attosecond physics143
Dissimilar photons can bunch too142
Two in one139
Publisher Correction: Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence136
A photonic entanglement filter with Rydberg atoms135
A digital solution towards deep optical imaging131
Processing quantum randomness with light131
Super-resolution microscopy for the life sciences129
Ultrafast atomic-scale scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of a single vacancy in a monolayer crystal128
Synthetic reflection self-injection-locked microcombs128
Unidirectional unpolarized luminescence emission via vortex excitation127
All-optical temporal logic gates in localized exciton polaritons124
Hong–Ou–Mandel interference in colloidal CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals124
Efficient emitters in the NIR-II window122
Free-form dual-comb spectroscopy for compressive sensing and imaging122
Suppressing wide-angle light loss and non-radiative recombination for efficient perovskite solar cells121
Integrated vortex soliton microcombs119
Experimental quantum-enhanced kernel-based machine learning on a photonic processor119
Anomalous circularly polarized light emission in organic light-emitting diodes caused by orbital–momentum locking118
Synthetic aperture waveguide holography for compact mixed-reality displays with large étendue113
Metasurface-based bijective illumination collection imaging provides high-resolution tomography in three dimensions112
An open question111
Plasmonic lasers turn magnetic110
A new change of phase109
Publisher Correction: A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator109
Shrinking time-domain spectroscopy to atomic dimensions108
Sub-cycle photonics in correlated materials107
Author Correction: Sub-femtonewton force sensing in solution by super-resolved photonic force microscopy107
Listening to microorganisms with light106
Tracking nanoscopic motion with minima of light106
Author Correction: Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate105
Sub-Doppler spectroscopy of quantum systems through nanophotonic spectral translation of electro-optic light105
Integrated electro-optic digital-to-analogue link for efficient computing and arbitrary waveform generation105
An adaptive moiré sensor for spectro-polarimetric hyperimaging104
Spin-selective strong light–matter coupling in a 2D hole gas-microcavity system104
Interferometric imaging of amplitude and phase of spatial biphoton states103
Wide-band frequency modulation of a terahertz intrinsic Josephson junction emitter of a cuprate superconductor103
Memristors go quantum101
Photonic-circuit-integrated titanium:sapphire laser100
Author Correction: In vivo NIR-II fluorescence imaging for biology and medicine99
Towards compact phase-matched and waveguided nonlinear optics in atomically layered semiconductors98
Inverted organic solar cells with an in situ-derived SiOxNy passivation layer and power conversion efficiency exceeding 18%98
Sub-50-ns ultrafast upconversion luminescence of a rare-earth-doped nanoparticle97
Fast, three-dimensional, live-cell super-resolution imaging with multiplane structured illumination microscopy97
Elucidating the photodegradation pathways of polymer donors for organic solar cells with seven months of outdoor operational stability97
In memory of Gabriel Popescu97
Laser gyroscope precisely tracks the Earth’s rotation96
Costas Soukoulis (1951–2024)96
Micropillars for single-photon phase shifts96
Clocks with a precise tick95
It’s big quantum time94
Ultrafast on-chip germanium photodiode93
Trionic all-optical biological voltage sensing via quantum statistics93
Giant effective Zeeman splitting in a monolayer semiconductor realized by spin-selective strong light–matter coupling92
In-fibre second-harmonic generation with embedded two-dimensional materials92
Probing topological phase transitions using high-harmonic generation92
Visible-to-ultraviolet frequency comb generation in lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides91
Chirality-induced quantum non-reciprocity91
Computing with silicon photodiodes90
Generation of ultrafast magnetic steps for coherent control89
Frequency-modulated high-power photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers for long-distance coherent free-space optical communications89
Super-stealth dicing of transparent solids with nanometric precision89
Ultrathin MXene assemblies approach the intrinsic absorption limit in the 0.5–10 THz band88
Advances in optical metalenses87
Space-time-topological events in photonic quantum walks87
Light-based on-chip in situ training86
Non-Hermitian gauged laser array84
Author Correction: Onset of vortex clustering and inverse energy cascade in dissipative quantum fluids83
Author Correction: Room-temperature superfluorescence in hybrid perovskites and its origins83
Anti-perovskites with long carrier lifetime for ultralow dose and stable X-ray detection82
Generating free-space structured light with programmable integrated photonics82
Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy with a needle-shaped beam82
Switching it up82
Event-based vision sensor for fast and dense single-molecule localization microscopy81
Magneto-optics enhances in-memory computing81
Controlling structured light in the extreme ultraviolet range81
Delivering broadband light deep inside diffusive media81
Plasmonic photoconductive terahertz focal-plane array with pixel super-resolution80
Enhancing spatiotemporal light modulators80
Observation of the all-optical Stern–Gerlach effect in nonlinear optics80
Full-field Brillouin microscopy based on an imaging Fourier-transform spectrometer80
Reflection and refraction at a time boundary80
Higher-dimensional processing using a photonic tensor core with continuous-time data79
Parallelized computational 3D video microscopy of freely moving organisms at multiple gigapixels per second79
Terabit-scale high-fidelity diamond data storage78
Integrated optical frequency comb technologies78
High-speed programmable photonic circuits in a cryogenically compatible, visible–near-infrared 200 mm CMOS architecture77
Single-particle photoacoustic vibrational spectroscopy using optical microresonators76
Doubling the resolution of fluorescence-lifetime single-molecule localization microscopy with image scanning microscopy74
Surface ion trap74
Bright and stable near-infrared lead-free perovskite light-emitting diodes74
Quantum phase modulator73
Vibrational imaging goes deeper and finer72
Lightning protection by laser72
Publisher Correction: Subradiant directional memory in cooperative scattering72
Goodbye Letters72
Tiniest LEDs light up71
Excitons surf the waves71
Extreme γ-ray radiation hardness and high scintillation yield in perovskite nanocrystals70
Highly bright and stable single-crystal perovskite light-emitting diodes70
All-optical image transportation through a multimode fibre using a miniaturized diffractive neural network on the distal facet69
Interaction and co-assembly of optical and topological solitons69
A wireless optoelectronic probe to monitor oxygenation in deep brain tissue69
Non-Abelian braiding on photonic chips69
Variations in the Earth’s rotation rate measured with a ring laser interferometer68
Taming photons to sense fast and faint infrared signals68
A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator68
Multifunctional entinostat enhances the mechanical robustness and efficiency of flexible perovskite solar cells and minimodules67
Readout-efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon imager with orthogonal time–amplitude multiplexing by hotspot quantization67
Lithography-free reconfigurable integrated photonic processor67
All-optical nonlinear Compton scattering performed with a multi-petawatt laser67
Continuous terahertz band coverage through precise electron-beam tailoring in free-electron lasers66
Excitonic resonances control the temporal dynamics of nonlinear optical wave mixing in monolayer semiconductors66
Third-harmonic Mie scattering from semiconductor nanohelices66
Ultrafast serrodyne optical frequency translator65
Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser65
Bigger and better63
Quantum time reflection and refraction of ultracold atoms63
Metal–organic framework scintillators detect radioactive gases62
Splitting light pulses62
Ever-evolving optical lattice clocks62
Introduction of magneto-fluorescence fluctuation microspectroscopy for investigating quantum effects in biology62
Publisher Correction: Cryogenic optical data link for superconducting circuits62
Enabling smart vision with metasurfaces62
Detecting spin polarization62
Visible to mid-wave infrared PbS/HgTe colloidal quantum dot imagers61
Water-induced high-performance quantum-dot light-emitting diodes61
Directional strong coupling at the nanoscale between hyperbolic polaritons and organic molecules60
Microwave–optical transducer efficiency boost60
Plasmonic biosensor enabled by resonant quantum tunnelling60
Image-guided computational holographic wavefront shaping59
High-bandwidth perovskite photonic sources on silicon59
Phase conjugation with spatially incoherent light in complex media59
Integrated non-reciprocal magneto-optics with ultra-high endurance for photonic in-memory computing59
Digital photoprogramming of liquid-crystal superstructures featuring intrinsic chiral photoswitches57
Mid-infrared ultrashort pulse generation57
Shaping light for optogenetics57
Plasma optics promise exawatt performance56
Continuing the diversity conversation56
A resonant tone for photonic time crystals55
New frontiers for integrated photonics55
Smoke rings of light54
Dual-comb wonders54
Direct characterization of shear phonons in layered materials by mechano-Raman spectroscopy54
Real-time observation of picosecond-timescale optical quantum entanglement towards ultrafast quantum information processing54
Luminescent concentrator design for displays with high ambient contrast and efficiency54
Microcavity Kerr optical frequency division with integrated SiN photonics54
Spin–photon interfaces in silicon53
Two-step absorption instead of two-photon absorption in 3D nanoprinting53
OLETs with narrowband emission53
Terahertz cyclotron emission from two-dimensional Dirac fermions53
Plasmon-enhanced ultralow-threshold solid-state triplet fusion upconversion52
Resolution of 100 photons and quantum generation of unbiased random numbers52
Attosecond coherent control of electronic wave packets in two-colour photoionization using a novel timing tool for seeded free-electron laser51
Quantum cascade laser turns thirty51
Achieving the full-wavelength phase-matching for efficient nonlinear optical frequency conversion in C(NH2)3BF450
Optically addressing single spins in silicon50
Continuous-wave nonlinear polarization control and signatures of criticality in a perovskite cavity50
Efficient quantum state tomography49
Entangled light enhances force sensing49
Reviving holographic photonic integration49
Tunable coherent mixed-dimensional perovskite heterojunctions and quantum wells grown from solution48
Observation of quantized vortex in atomic Bose–Einstein condensate at Dirac point with emergent spin–orbit coupling48
Metaoptics for the consumer market48
Generalized angle–orbital angular momentum Talbot effect and modulo mode sorting47
Seeing into deep tissue47
Quantum entanglement measures Earth’s rotation47
Gate-tunable optical anisotropy in wafer-scale, aligned carbon nanotube films47
Diffractive tensorized unit for million-TOPS general-purpose computing47
Real-space subfemtosecond imaging of quantum electronic coherences in molecules46
Highly efficient circularly polarized near-infrared phosphorescence in both solution and aggregate46
Parametrically driven pure-Kerr temporal solitons in a chip-integrated microcavity46
Ultrafast nano-imaging of dark excitons46
Mirror symmetric on-chip frequency circulation of light45
Chiral materials and mechanisms for circularly polarized light-emitting diodes45
Sub-picosecond steering of ultrafast incoherent emission from semiconductor metasurfaces45
Laser power consumption of soliton formation in a bidirectional Kerr resonator45
Author Correction: Image-guided computational holographic wavefront shaping44
Laser-driven broadband near-infrared light source with watt-level output44
Quantum Breakthrough awards44
Add noise for better multiplexing44
Full-color holography using combs43
A crystal of light vortices43
Discharging excitons: fast and at will42
Light-controlled microvehicles42
Dressing with visible light41
Taming twisted light with topology41
Efficient second-harmonic generation in 3D colloidal crystals41
Building atomic clock lasers with integrated photonics40
Shining light on turbulence40
Publisher Correction: Ever-evolving optical lattice clocks40
Optically addressable universal holonomic quantum gates on diamond spins40
Hand-drawing perovskite devices39
Quantum recoil in free-electron interactions with atomic lattices39
Metamaterials for the masses39
Nonlinear helical dichroism in chiral and achiral molecules38
High-efficiency photoemission from magnetically doped quantum dots driven by multi-step spin-exchange Auger ionization37
Generation of three-dimensional cluster entangled state37
Observation of localization of light in linear photonic quasicrystals with diverse rotational symmetries37
Photonic radar for contactless vital sign detection36
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