Nature Photonics

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Photonics is 46. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lasers clean up graffiti552
Photonics celebrates double Nobel Prize achievement471
The race for wakefield-driven FELs432
Deconvolution enhances fluctuation detection418
Small tunable X-ray sources may have large impact381
Converting qubits367
Triangle-beam interference structured illumination microscopy343
Photons learn to classify with a quantum edge343
Lithography-free reconfigurable photonic processor323
Ultrahigh-resolution nanoimprint patterning of quantum-dot light-emitting diodes via capillary self-assembly302
All-optical polarization switching in ferroelectrics272
Direct tensor processing with coherent light267
On the simultaneous scattering of two photons by a single two-level atom248
Publisher Correction: Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser244
Spatio-temporal control of incoherent light with metasurfaces243
Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence242
Topological orbital angular momentum extraction and twofold protection of vortex transport240
Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate235
Room-temperature upconverted superfluorescence223
Quasi-phase-matched up- and down-conversion in periodically poled layered semiconductors222
Highly stable all-perovskite tandem solar cells with targeted conversion of tin–lead surfaces222
Observation of loss-enhanced magneto-optical effect220
Solvent-assisted reaction for spontaneous defect passivation in perovskite solar cells218
Novel light manipulation208
A bit of gain, electrically injected204
Twisted fibre photonic Chern insulator196
Femtosecond laser writes a broadband miniaturized isolator193
Minute-scale Schrödinger-cat state of spin-5/2 atoms190
Light-based catalyst-free conversion of CH4 and CO2188
Hard disk drive capacity limits smashed by nanofocusing of plasmons181
Ångström-tunable polarization-resolved solid-state photon sources181
Cascaded hard X-ray self-seeded free-electron laser at megahertz repetition rate179
High-power AlGaN deep-ultraviolet micro-light-emitting diode displays for maskless photolithography178
Room-temperature electrically switchable spin–valley coupling in a van der Waals ferroelectric halide perovskite with persistent spin helix178
A photonic quantum engine driven by superradiance177
Resource-efficient photonic quantum computation with high-dimensional cluster states173
Observation of light-driven band structure via multiband high-harmonic spectroscopy170
New nonlinear opportunities in the ultraviolet169
Author Correction: A ferroelectric multilevel non-volatile photonic phase shifter165
Towards efficient, scalable and stable perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells164
Dynamic manipulation of photoluminescence in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks164
Additive treatment yields high-performance lead-free perovskite light-emitting diodes159
Light sheets for continuous-depth holography and three-dimensional volumetric displays157
High-rate quantum key distribution exceeding 110 Mb s–1153
Harnessing plasma absorption in silicon MOS ring modulators153
Ultrafast energy exchange between two single Rydberg atoms on a nanosecond timescale152
Single-photon detection surprise151
Microdroplet manipulation147
Efficient emitters in the NIR-II window147
A bright future for attosecond physics145
Two in one142
Dissimilar photons can bunch too142
Publisher Correction: Femtojoule femtosecond all-optical switching in lithium niobate nanophotonics141
Publisher Correction: Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence140
Unlocking an optical bistability switch138
Processing quantum randomness with light138
Super-resolution microscopy for the life sciences137
A digital solution towards deep optical imaging137
Anomalous circularly polarized light emission in organic light-emitting diodes caused by orbital–momentum locking137
A photonic entanglement filter with Rydberg atoms137
Ytterbium spectroscopy for new physics searches136
Unidirectional unpolarized luminescence emission via vortex excitation135
Integrated vortex soliton microcombs133
Hong–Ou–Mandel interference in colloidal CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals132
Free-form dual-comb spectroscopy for compressive sensing and imaging132
Synthetic reflection self-injection-locked microcombs132
Experimental quantum-enhanced kernel-based machine learning on a photonic processor131
All-optical temporal logic gates in localized exciton polaritons131
Super-resolution microscopy at its sharpest130
Synthetic aperture waveguide holography for compact mixed-reality displays with large étendue129
Plasmonics commercialized?129
Wide-field coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy using random illuminations126
Suppressing wide-angle light loss and non-radiative recombination for efficient perovskite solar cells126
Multi-plateau high-harmonic generation in liquids driven by off-site recombination126
Ultrafast atomic-scale scanning tunnelling spectroscopy of a single vacancy in a monolayer crystal125
An open question124
A new change of phase123
Shrinking time-domain spectroscopy to atomic dimensions122
Sub-cycle photonics in correlated materials122
Tracking nanoscopic motion with minima of light121
Listening to microorganisms with light118
Entering the vacuum ultraviolet117
Author Correction: Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate114
Publisher Correction: A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator114
Author Correction: Sub-femtonewton force sensing in solution by super-resolved photonic force microscopy112
Author Correction: In vivo NIR-II fluorescence imaging for biology and medicine112
Elucidating the photodegradation pathways of polymer donors for organic solar cells with seven months of outdoor operational stability110
Photonic-circuit-integrated titanium:sapphire laser110
Wide-band frequency modulation of a terahertz intrinsic Josephson junction emitter of a cuprate superconductor110
Fast, three-dimensional, live-cell super-resolution imaging with multiplane structured illumination microscopy110
Spin-selective strong light–matter coupling in a 2D hole gas-microcavity system110
Inverted organic solar cells with an in situ-derived SiOxNy passivation layer and power conversion efficiency exceeding 18%109
Integrated electro-optic digital-to-analogue link for efficient computing and arbitrary waveform generation109
Interferometric imaging of amplitude and phase of spatial biphoton states107
Sub-Doppler spectroscopy of quantum systems through nanophotonic spectral translation of electro-optic light107
An adaptive moiré sensor for spectro-polarimetric hyperimaging106
Sub-50-ns ultrafast upconversion luminescence of a rare-earth-doped nanoparticle105
Towards compact phase-matched and waveguided nonlinear optics in atomically layered semiconductors105
In memory of Gabriel Popescu105
Costas Soukoulis (1951–2024)104
Micropillars for single-photon phase shifts104
Author Correction: Light-based electron aberration corrector103
Laser gyroscope precisely tracks the Earth’s rotation103
Generation of ultrafast magnetic steps for coherent control101
Computing with silicon photodiodes99
Giant effective Zeeman splitting in a monolayer semiconductor realized by spin-selective strong light–matter coupling99
Trionic all-optical biological voltage sensing via quantum statistics97
Advances in optical metalenses96
It’s big quantum time96
Structural exciton localization drives efficient solid-state sensitized triplet fusion upconversion96
Super-stealth dicing of transparent solids with nanometric precision95
Space-time-topological events in photonic quantum walks94
Frequency-modulated high-power photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers for long-distance coherent free-space optical communications93
In-fibre second-harmonic generation with embedded two-dimensional materials91
Visible-to-ultraviolet frequency comb generation in lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides90
Probing topological phase transitions using high-harmonic generation89
Ultrathin MXene assemblies approach the intrinsic absorption limit in the 0.5–10 THz band89
Chirality-induced quantum non-reciprocity88
Light-based on-chip in situ training87
Switching it up87
Non-Hermitian gauged laser array87
Photonics based cooling outpaces policy86
Observation of the all-optical Stern–Gerlach effect in nonlinear optics85
Author Correction: Onset of vortex clustering and inverse energy cascade in dissipative quantum fluids84
Reflection and refraction at a time boundary83
Delivering broadband light deep inside diffusive media83
On-site enhancement and control of spin-forbidden dark excitons in a plasmonic heterostructure83
Controlling structured light in the extreme ultraviolet range82
Magneto-optics enhances in-memory computing82
Enhancing spatiotemporal light modulators82
Plasmonic photoconductive terahertz focal-plane array with pixel super-resolution81
Local and remote synthesis of single-photon space-time wave packets81
Parallelized computational 3D video microscopy of freely moving organisms at multiple gigapixels per second81
Doubling the resolution of fluorescence-lifetime single-molecule localization microscopy with image scanning microscopy80
Single-particle photoacoustic vibrational spectroscopy using optical microresonators79
Generating free-space structured light with programmable integrated photonics78
Terabit-scale high-fidelity diamond data storage78
Bright and stable near-infrared lead-free perovskite light-emitting diodes77
Anti-perovskites with long carrier lifetime for ultralow dose and stable X-ray detection77
Event-based vision sensor for fast and dense single-molecule localization microscopy76
Higher-dimensional processing using a photonic tensor core with continuous-time data76
Full-field Brillouin microscopy based on an imaging Fourier-transform spectrometer75
Vibrational imaging goes deeper and finer75
Quantum phase modulator75
Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy with a needle-shaped beam75
Quantum fusion of independent networks based on multi-user entanglement swapping74
Readout-efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon imager with orthogonal time–amplitude multiplexing by hotspot quantization73
Tiniest LEDs light up72
A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator72
Vapour-assisted surface treatment for highly stable fully printed carbon-electrode perovskite solar modules72
Taming photons to sense fast and faint infrared signals71
New photodiodes ready to bridge optical and sub-THz communications71
All-optical nonlinear Compton scattering performed with a multi-petawatt laser70
Goodbye Letters70
Orders-of-magnitude improvement in precision spectroscopy of an inner-shell orbital clock transition in neutral ytterbium69
Lightning protection by laser69
Excitonic resonances control the temporal dynamics of nonlinear optical wave mixing in monolayer semiconductors69
Lithography-free reconfigurable integrated photonic processor68
Variations in the Earth’s rotation rate measured with a ring laser interferometer68
Ultrafast serrodyne optical frequency translator68
Twisted optical fibres as photonic topological insulators68
Multifunctional entinostat enhances the mechanical robustness and efficiency of flexible perovskite solar cells and minimodules67
Continuous terahertz band coverage through precise electron-beam tailoring in free-electron lasers67
Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser67
Programmable integrated quantum photonics67
In situ dynamic regulation of strain at the buried interface of stable perovskite solar cells66
A wireless optoelectronic probe to monitor oxygenation in deep brain tissue66
All-optical image transportation through a multimode fibre using a miniaturized diffractive neural network on the distal facet65
Highly bright and stable single-crystal perovskite light-emitting diodes64
Extreme γ-ray radiation hardness and high scintillation yield in perovskite nanocrystals63
Quantum time reflection and refraction of ultracold atoms63
Incoherent dielectric tensor tomography for quantitative three-dimensional measurement of biaxial anisotropy62
Bigger and better62
Detecting spin polarization61
Enabling smart vision with metasurfaces61
Colloidal quantum dots shine in the mid-infrared61
Publisher Correction: Cryogenic optical data link for superconducting circuits61
Internal homojunction Sb2Se3 solar cell60
Splitting light pulses60
High-bandwidth perovskite photonic sources on silicon60
Introduction of magneto-fluorescence fluctuation microspectroscopy for investigating quantum effects in biology59
Metal–organic framework scintillators detect radioactive gases59
Integrated non-reciprocal magneto-optics with ultra-high endurance for photonic in-memory computing58
Image-guided computational holographic wavefront shaping58
Plasmonic biosensor enabled by resonant quantum tunnelling57
Phase conjugation with spatially incoherent light in complex media57
Water-induced high-performance quantum-dot light-emitting diodes57
Stabilizing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells via strategic interfacial contact engineering56
Directional strong coupling at the nanoscale between hyperbolic polaritons and organic molecules56
Continuing the diversity conversation56
Visible to mid-wave infrared PbS/HgTe colloidal quantum dot imagers56
A resonant tone for photonic time crystals55
New frontiers for integrated photonics55
OLETs with narrowband emission55
Spin–photon interfaces in silicon54
Smoke rings of light54
Terahertz cyclotron emission from two-dimensional Dirac fermions54
Resolution of 100 photons and quantum generation of unbiased random numbers54
Microcavity Kerr optical frequency division with integrated SiN photonics54
Plasma optics promise exawatt performance53
Dissipative solitons in mode-locked parity–time-symmetric lasers53
Direct characterization of shear phonons in layered materials by mechano-Raman spectroscopy53
Dual-comb wonders53
Attosecond coherent control of electronic wave packets in two-colour photoionization using a novel timing tool for seeded free-electron laser52
Achieving the full-wavelength phase-matching for efficient nonlinear optical frequency conversion in C(NH2)3BF452
Quantum cascade laser turns thirty52
Luminescent concentrator design for displays with high ambient contrast and efficiency52
Plasmon-enhanced ultralow-threshold solid-state triplet fusion upconversion51
Real-time observation of picosecond-timescale optical quantum entanglement towards ultrafast quantum information processing49
Efficient quantum state tomography49
Laser power consumption of soliton formation in a bidirectional Kerr resonator49
Optically addressing single spins in silicon49
Wide-band millimetre-wave synthesizer using microresonator-soliton photomixing49
Observation of quantized vortex in atomic Bose–Einstein condensate at Dirac point with emergent spin–orbit coupling49
Reviving holographic photonic integration49
Mirror symmetric on-chip frequency circulation of light49
Entangled light enhances force sensing48
Polymer dots for nanoscale live-cell imaging48
Seeing into deep tissue48
Quantum entanglement measures Earth’s rotation48
Metaoptics for the consumer market48
Tunable coherent mixed-dimensional perovskite heterojunctions and quantum wells grown from solution48
Sub-picosecond steering of ultrafast incoherent emission from semiconductor metasurfaces47
Parametrically driven pure-Kerr temporal solitons in a chip-integrated microcavity47
Ultrafast nano-imaging of dark excitons47
Gate-tunable optical anisotropy in wafer-scale, aligned carbon nanotube films47
Laser-driven broadband near-infrared light source with watt-level output46
Temporal solitons and frequency combs in quadratic resonators46
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