Nature Photonics

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Photonics is 10. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lasers clean up graffiti544
Photonics celebrates double Nobel Prize achievement488
The race for wakefield-driven FELs462
Deconvolution enhances fluctuation detection415
Small tunable X-ray sources may have large impact409
Converting qubits378
Photons learn to classify with a quantum edge361
Triangle-beam interference structured illumination microscopy341
Lithography-free reconfigurable photonic processor335
Ultrahigh-resolution nanoimprint patterning of quantum-dot light-emitting diodes via capillary self-assembly304
Publisher Correction: Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser296
Spatio-temporal control of incoherent light with metasurfaces263
Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence261
Highly stable all-perovskite tandem solar cells with targeted conversion of tin–lead surfaces241
Solvent-assisted reaction for spontaneous defect passivation in perovskite solar cells240
On the simultaneous scattering of two photons by a single two-level atom238
Direct tensor processing with coherent light238
Quasi-phase-matched up- and down-conversion in periodically poled layered semiconductors236
Topological orbital angular momentum extraction and twofold protection of vortex transport232
Observation of loss-enhanced magneto-optical effect220
Room-temperature upconverted superfluorescence219
All-optical polarization switching in ferroelectrics217
Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate212
Novel light manipulation211
A bit of gain, electrically injected204
Twisted fibre photonic Chern insulator195
Femtosecond laser writes a broadband miniaturized isolator194
Minute-scale Schrödinger-cat state of spin-5/2 atoms191
A photonic quantum engine driven by superradiance188
Resource-efficient photonic quantum computation with high-dimensional cluster states184
Light-based catalyst-free conversion of CH4 and CO2177
Cascaded hard X-ray self-seeded free-electron laser at megahertz repetition rate177
Dynamic manipulation of photoluminescence in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks176
Harnessing plasma absorption in silicon MOS ring modulators176
Additive treatment yields high-performance lead-free perovskite light-emitting diodes176
Ångström-tunable polarization-resolved solid-state photon sources173
Room-temperature electrically switchable spin–valley coupling in a van der Waals ferroelectric halide perovskite with persistent spin helix170
Author Correction: A ferroelectric multilevel non-volatile photonic phase shifter170
Ultrafast energy exchange between two single Rydberg atoms on a nanosecond timescale168
New nonlinear opportunities in the ultraviolet164
Observation of light-driven band structure via multiband high-harmonic spectroscopy164
Light sheets for continuous-depth holography and three-dimensional volumetric displays160
High-power AlGaN deep-ultraviolet micro-light-emitting diode displays for maskless photolithography158
High-rate quantum key distribution exceeding 110 Mb s–1156
Towards efficient, scalable and stable perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells156
Plasmonics commercialized?150
Single-photon detection surprise149
A photonic entanglement filter with Rydberg atoms148
A bright future for attosecond physics145
Dissimilar photons can bunch too145
Two in one144
Efficient emitters in the NIR-II window143
Processing quantum randomness with light140
Super-resolution microscopy for the life sciences139
Unlocking an optical bistability switch135
Unidirectional unpolarized luminescence emission via vortex excitation135
Publisher Correction: Femtojoule femtosecond all-optical switching in lithium niobate nanophotonics135
Publisher Correction: Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence135
Microdroplet manipulation134
Hong–Ou–Mandel interference in colloidal CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals134
Anomalous circularly polarized light emission in organic light-emitting diodes caused by orbital–momentum locking134
Wide-field coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy using random illuminations133
Synthetic reflection self-injection-locked microcombs133
Ultrafast atomic-scale scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of a single vacancy in a monolayer crystal132
A digital solution towards deep optical imaging131
Multi-plateau high-harmonic generation in liquids driven by off-site recombination131
Super-resolution microscopy at its sharpest130
Suppressing wide-angle light loss and non-radiative recombination for efficient perovskite solar cells129
Integrated vortex soliton microcombs129
Free-form dual-comb spectroscopy for compressive sensing and imaging129
All-optical temporal logic gates in localized exciton polaritons128
A new change of phase125
Synthetic aperture waveguide holography for compact mixed-reality displays with large étendue125
An open question125
Experimental quantum-enhanced kernel-based machine learning on a photonic processor125
Shrinking time-domain spectroscopy to atomic dimensions124
Sub-cycle photonics in correlated materials123
Tracking nanoscopic motion with minima of light122
Listening to microorganisms with light122
Photonic-circuit-integrated titanium:sapphire laser121
Entering the vacuum ultraviolet119
Author Correction: Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate118
Publisher Correction: A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator118
Author Correction: Sub-femtonewton force sensing in solution by super-resolved photonic force microscopy117
Sub-Doppler spectroscopy of quantum systems through nanophotonic spectral translation of electro-optic light116
Author Correction: In vivo NIR-II fluorescence imaging for biology and medicine115
Spin-selective strong light–matter coupling in a 2D hole gas-microcavity system110
Towards compact phase-matched and waveguided nonlinear optics in atomically layered semiconductors110
Wide-band frequency modulation of a terahertz intrinsic Josephson junction emitter of a cuprate superconductor109
Interferometric imaging of amplitude and phase of spatial biphoton states108
Elucidating the photodegradation pathways of polymer donors for organic solar cells with seven months of outdoor operational stability108
Integrated electro-optic digital-to-analogue link for efficient computing and arbitrary waveform generation108
Fast, three-dimensional, live-cell super-resolution imaging with multiplane structured illumination microscopy107
Sub-50-ns ultrafast upconversion luminescence of a rare-earth-doped nanoparticle107
An adaptive moiré sensor for spectro-polarimetric hyperimaging107
Inverted organic solar cells with an in situ-derived SiOxNy passivation layer and power conversion efficiency exceeding 18%106
In memory of Gabriel Popescu106
Micropillars for single-photon phase shifts105
Costas Soukoulis (1951–2024)104
Laser gyroscope precisely tracks the Earth’s rotation104
Computing with silicon photodiodes103
It’s big quantum time103
Generation of ultrafast magnetic steps for coherent control103
Space-time-topological events in photonic quantum walks103
Author Correction: Light-based electron aberration corrector103
Trionic all-optical biological voltage sensing via quantum statistics102
Giant effective Zeeman splitting in a monolayer semiconductor realized by spin-selective strong light–matter coupling100
Chirality-induced quantum non-reciprocity98
Visible-to-ultraviolet frequency comb generation in lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides97
Probing topological phase transitions using high-harmonic generation97
Super-stealth dicing of transparent solids with nanometric precision96
Ultrathin MXene assemblies approach the intrinsic absorption limit in the 0.5–10 THz band96
In-fibre second-harmonic generation with embedded two-dimensional materials95
Advances in optical metalenses95
Light-based on-chip in situ training92
Frequency-modulated high-power photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers for long-distance coherent free-space optical communications92
Switching it up91
Non-Hermitian gauged laser array91
Photonics based cooling outpaces policy89
Author Correction: Onset of vortex clustering and inverse energy cascade in dissipative quantum fluids88
Observation of the all-optical Stern–Gerlach effect in nonlinear optics88
Controlling structured light in the extreme ultraviolet range87
Reflection and refraction at a time boundary86
Doubling the resolution of fluorescence-lifetime single-molecule localization microscopy with image scanning microscopy86
On-site enhancement and control of spin-forbidden dark excitons in a plasmonic heterostructure86
Magneto-optics enhances in-memory computing84
Delivering broadband light deep inside diffusive media84
Local and remote synthesis of single-photon space-time wave packets83
Enhancing spatiotemporal light modulators83
Single-particle photoacoustic vibrational spectroscopy using optical microresonators82
Higher-dimensional processing using a photonic tensor core with continuous-time data82
Bright and stable near-infrared lead-free perovskite light-emitting diodes82
Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy with a needle-shaped beam81
Full-field Brillouin microscopy based on an imaging Fourier-transform spectrometer81
Terabit-scale high-fidelity diamond data storage80
Event-based vision sensor for fast and dense single-molecule localization microscopy80
Generating free-space structured light with programmable integrated photonics79
Plasmonic photoconductive terahertz focal-plane array with pixel super-resolution79
Anti-perovskites with long carrier lifetime for ultralow dose and stable X-ray detection79
Parallelized computational 3D video microscopy of freely moving organisms at multiple gigapixels per second77
Vibrational imaging goes deeper and finer76
Quantum phase modulator76
Vapour-assisted surface treatment for highly stable fully printed carbon-electrode perovskite solar modules74
Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser74
Readout-efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon imager with orthogonal time–amplitude multiplexing by hotspot quantization74
A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator74
Tiniest LEDs light up74
Continuous terahertz band coverage through precise electron-beam tailoring in free-electron lasers74
Quantum fusion of independent networks based on multi-user entanglement swapping74
Taming photons to sense fast and faint infrared signals73
Goodbye Letters71
New photodiodes ready to bridge optical and sub-THz communications71
Twisted optical fibres as photonic topological insulators70
Excitonic resonances control the temporal dynamics of nonlinear optical wave mixing in monolayer semiconductors70
A wireless optoelectronic probe to monitor oxygenation in deep brain tissue70
Lightning protection by laser70
Variations in the Earth’s rotation rate measured with a ring laser interferometer70
Multifunctional entinostat enhances the mechanical robustness and efficiency of flexible perovskite solar cells and minimodules69
Orders-of-magnitude improvement in precision spectroscopy of an inner-shell orbital clock transition in neutral ytterbium68
Ultrafast serrodyne optical frequency translator67
Extreme γ-ray radiation hardness and high scintillation yield in perovskite nanocrystals67
All-optical image transportation through a multimode fibre using a miniaturized diffractive neural network on the distal facet67
Programmable integrated quantum photonics67
In situ dynamic regulation of strain at the buried interface of stable perovskite solar cells66
Quantum time reflection and refraction of ultracold atoms66
Lithography-free reconfigurable integrated photonic processor66
Interaction and co-assembly of optical and topological solitons66
Highly bright and stable single-crystal perovskite light-emitting diodes66
All-optical nonlinear Compton scattering performed with a multi-petawatt laser65
Publisher Correction: Cryogenic optical data link for superconducting circuits64
Enabling smart vision with metasurfaces64
Bigger and better64
Internal homojunction Sb2Se3 solar cell64
Splitting light pulses63
High-bandwidth perovskite photonic sources on silicon63
Plasmonic biosensor enabled by resonant quantum tunnelling62
Metal–organic framework scintillators detect radioactive gases61
Phase conjugation with spatially incoherent light in complex media61
Introduction of magneto-fluorescence fluctuation microspectroscopy for investigating quantum effects in biology61
Shaping light for optogenetics60
Detecting spin polarization60
Directional strong coupling at the nanoscale between hyperbolic polaritons and organic molecules59
Incoherent dielectric tensor tomography for quantitative three-dimensional measurement of biaxial anisotropy59
Integrated non-reciprocal magneto-optics with ultra-high endurance for photonic in-memory computing59
Water-induced high-performance quantum-dot light-emitting diodes58
Image-guided computational holographic wavefront shaping58
Visible to mid-wave infrared PbS/HgTe colloidal quantum dot imagers58
New frontiers for integrated photonics57
Continuing the diversity conversation57
Stabilizing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells via strategic interfacial contact engineering57
OLETs with narrowband emission56
Terahertz cyclotron emission from two-dimensional Dirac fermions56
A resonant tone for photonic time crystals56
Spin–photon interfaces in silicon56
Real-time observation of picosecond-timescale optical quantum entanglement towards ultrafast quantum information processing55
Direct characterization of shear phonons in layered materials by mechano-Raman spectroscopy55
Dual-comb wonders55
Plasma optics promise exawatt performance55
Resolution of 100 photons and quantum generation of unbiased random numbers54
Quantum cascade laser turns thirty54
Microcavity Kerr optical frequency division with integrated SiN photonics54
Luminescent concentrator design for displays with high ambient contrast and efficiency54
Attosecond coherent control of electronic wave packets in two-colour photoionization using a novel timing tool for seeded free-electron laser54
Plasmon-enhanced ultralow-threshold solid-state triplet fusion upconversion54
Achieving the full-wavelength phase-matching for efficient nonlinear optical frequency conversion in C(NH2)3BF453
Smoke rings of light53
Dissipative solitons in mode-locked parity–time-symmetric lasers52
Reviving holographic photonic integration51
Optically addressing single spins in silicon51
Quantum entanglement measures Earth’s rotation50
Polymer dots for nanoscale live-cell imaging50
Continuous-wave nonlinear polarization control and signatures of criticality in a perovskite cavity49
Metaoptics for the consumer market49
Gate-tunable optical anisotropy in wafer-scale, aligned carbon nanotube films48
Entangled light enhances force sensing48
Laser power consumption of soliton formation in a bidirectional Kerr resonator48
Highly efficient circularly polarized near-infrared phosphorescence in both solution and aggregate48
Vectorial ultrafast chiroptical microscopy48
Parametrically driven pure-Kerr temporal solitons in a chip-integrated microcavity48
Mirror symmetric on-chip frequency circulation of light48
Seeing into deep tissue48
Sub-picosecond steering of ultrafast incoherent emission from semiconductor metasurfaces47
Observation of quantized vortex in atomic Bose–Einstein condensate at Dirac point with emergent spin–orbit coupling47
Ultrafast nano-imaging of dark excitons47
Diffractive tensorized unit for million-TOPS general-purpose computing47
Tunable coherent mixed-dimensional perovskite heterojunctions and quantum wells grown from solution47
Laser-driven broadband near-infrared light source with watt-level output46
Chiral materials and mechanisms for circularly polarized light-emitting diodes46
Efficient quantum state tomography46
A crystal of light vortices45
Generalized angle–orbital angular momentum Talbot effect and modulo mode sorting45
Quantum Breakthrough awards45
Add noise for better multiplexing45
Dressing with visible light44
Building atomic clock lasers with integrated photonics44
Shining light on turbulence44
Discharging excitons: fast and at will44
Self-compressed waveform-stable light transients enabling water-window attosecond spectroscopy43
High-efficiency photoemission from magnetically doped quantum dots driven by multi-step spin-exchange Auger ionization43
Metamaterials for the masses43
Observation of localization of light in linear photonic quasicrystals with diverse rotational symmetries42
Efficient second-harmonic generation in 3D colloidal crystals42
Taming twisted light with topology42
Few-photon all-optical phase rotation in a quantum-well micropillar cavity42
Versatile optical frequency division with Kerr-induced synchronization at tunable microcomb synthetic dispersive waves42
Hand-drawing perovskite devices41
Author Correction: Image-guided computational holographic wavefront shaping41
Broadband hyperspectral imaging40
Optically addressable universal holonomic quantum gates on diamond spins40
Tuning optical cavities by Möbius topology40
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