Nature Photonics

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Photonics is 41. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lasers clean up graffiti420
Surface ion trap406
Quantum phase modulator385
Isamu Akasaki in memoriam371
Integrated optical entangled quantum vortex emitters361
Laser nanoprinting of metals353
Publisher Correction: Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser341
Photonics celebrates double Nobel Prize achievement313
Ultrafast timing enables reconstruction-free positron emission imaging303
Goodbye Letters287
Inverse-designed low-index-contrast structures on a silicon photonics platform for vector–matrix multiplication280
A full degree-of-freedom spatiotemporal light modulator265
Tailoring microcombs with inverse-designed, meta-dispersion microresonators250
Vortex laser arrays with topological charge control and self-healing of defects244
Room-temperature upconverted superfluorescence234
Nanoscale photon confinement230
Celebrating entanglement227
The race for wakefield-driven FELs215
Petabit optical storage211
Earth’s wobble probed by 16-m2 underground laser204
Mid-infrared cascade intraband electroluminescence with HgSe–CdSe core–shell colloidal quantum dots201
A nondestructive Bell-state measurement on two distant atomic qubits200
Laser-printed microelectronics198
Photonics makes a splash underwater193
Terahertz matters190
Sheets of light illuminate life sciences179
Topological orbital angular momentum extraction and twofold protection of vortex transport175
Intrinsically white organic polarized emissive semiconductors175
Optical atomic clock interrogation using an integrated spiral cavity laser172
All-optical image transportation through a multimode fibre using a miniaturized diffractive neural network on the distal facet172
Experimental photonic quantum memristor170
Femtojoule femtosecond all-optical switching in lithium niobate nanophotonics166
Spontaneous pulse formation in edgeless photonic crystal resonators161
Terahertz matters156
Author Correction: Hard X-ray transient grating spectroscopy on bismuth germanate146
Reply to: Reconsidering metasurface lasers142
Subcycle contact-free nanoscopy of ultrafast interlayer transport in atomically thin heterostructures140
Publisher Correction: Subradiant directional memory in cooperative scattering137
Attosecond electron motion control in dielectric133
Magnetic on–off switching of a plasmonic laser133
Room-temperature continuous-wave indirect-bandgap transition lasing in an ultra-thin WS2 disk132
Reconstruction-free positron emission imaging131
Ultrafast serrodyne optical frequency translator130
Photonic chips embrace piezo-optomechanics127
Third-harmonic Mie scattering from semiconductor nanohelices124
Squeezed light effect123
Open-source tools enable accessible and advanced image scanning microscopy data analysis122
Lithography-free reconfigurable integrated photonic processor121
The knight of holographic displays120
Spatio-temporal control of incoherent light with metasurfaces119
Converting qubits119
Attosecond movies of nano-optical fields118
Andrew M. Weiner (1958–2024)117
Ultrabright molecular scintillators enabled by lanthanide-assisted near-unity triplet exciton recycling117
Brillouin gain microscopy116
A wireless optoelectronic probe to monitor oxygenation in deep brain tissue116
Observation of loss-enhanced magneto-optical effect116
The X-ray science frontier is ultra-short and ultra-intense113
Single protein imaging with holography113
Lightning protection by laser112
Deconvolution enhances fluctuation detection112
Long-distance quantum key distribution gets real109
On the simultaneous scattering of two photons by a single two-level atom108
Optical readout of the chemical potential of two-dimensional electrons107
Attosecond X-ray laser vision104
Prospects for free-electron lasers powered by plasma-wakefield-accelerated beams102
Sub-cycle multidimensional spectroscopy of strongly correlated materials102
Mechanical anisotropy with Brillouin spectroscopy in one shot101
Photochemistry democratizes 3D nanoprinting100
All-optical polarization switching in ferroelectrics99
Real-time detection and discrimination of radioactive gas mixtures using nanoporous inorganic scintillators99
The diamond voltage microscope98
Optical pumping of electronic quantum Hall states with vortex light98
Vibrational imaging goes deeper and finer98
Excitonic resonances control the temporal dynamics of nonlinear optical wave mixing in monolayer semiconductors98
Lithography-free reconfigurable photonic processor96
Bose–Einstein condensation of photons in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser95
Strain-induced Landau levels in photonic crystals95
Small tunable X-ray sources may have large impact94
Excitons surf the waves90
Brillouin light scattering anisotropy microscopy for imaging the viscoelastic anisotropy in living cells89
Author Correction: Scattering invariant modes of light in complex media89
Turning single molecule vibrations into visible light89
Interaction and co-assembly of optical and topological solitons87
Hard X-ray helical dichroism of disordered molecular media87
Joseph A. Izatt (1962–2024)86
Coherently amplified ultrafast imaging using a free-electron interferometer86
In memory of Watt Wetmore Webb86
Author Correction: Multistep staircase avalanche photodiodes with extremely low noise and deterministic amplification85
Demonstration of the quantum principle of least action with single photons85
Mid-infrared wide-field nanoscopy84
Quantum time reflection and refraction of ultracold atoms84
Variations in the Earth’s rotation rate measured with a ring laser interferometer83
All-optical nonlinear Compton scattering performed with a multi-petawatt laser82
Quasi-phase-matched up- and down-conversion in periodically poled layered semiconductors82
High-yield growth of FACsPbBr3 single crystals with low defect density from mixed solvents for gamma-ray spectroscopy81
Readout-efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon imager with orthogonal time–amplitude multiplexing by hotspot quantization81
Generation and measurement of intense few-femtosecond superradiant extreme-ultraviolet free-electron laser pulses80
Brilliant whiteness in shrimp from ultra-thin layers of birefringent nanospheres80
Quantum transport in fractal networks79
A ferroelectric multilevel non-volatile photonic phase shifter79
Coherent control of ultrafast extreme ultraviolet transient absorption79
In situ nanoscopy of single-grain nanomorphology and ultrafast carrier dynamics in metal halide perovskites78
Transport and localization of indirect excitons in a van der Waals heterostructure78
High gradient terahertz-driven ultrafast photogun78
Taming photons to sense fast and faint infrared signals78
Highly efficient polaritonic light-emitting diodes with angle-independent narrowband emission77
Polariton spin Hall effect in a Rashba–Dresselhaus regime at room temperature76
Geometric filterless photodetectors for mid-infrared spin light76
Ultrashort dissipative Raman solitons in Kerr resonators driven with phase-coherent optical pulses75
Quantum microscopy based on Hong–Ou–Mandel interference75
Highly bright and stable single-crystal perovskite light-emitting diodes75
Nanoscale atomic suspended waveguides for improved vapour coherence times and optical frequency referencing74
Extreme γ-ray radiation hardness and high scintillation yield in perovskite nanocrystals74
Single-molecule mid-infrared spectroscopy and detection through vibrationally assisted luminescence74
Atomic-scale terahertz time-domain spectroscopy74
Enhanced detection of fluorescence fluctuations for high-throughput super-resolution imaging74
Multifunctional entinostat enhances the mechanical robustness and efficiency of flexible perovskite solar cells and minimodules73
Non-Abelian braiding on photonic chips73
Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate72
Spontaneous-polarization-induced photovoltaic effect in rhombohedrally stacked MoS271
Optically referenced 300 GHz millimetre-wave oscillator70
Suppressed ion migration for high-performance X-ray detectors based on atmosphere-controlled EFG-grown perovskite CsPbBr3 single crystals70
High efficiency warm-white light-emitting diodes based on copper–iodide clusters70
Giant second-harmonic generation in ferroelectric NbOI269
On-chip sampling of optical fields with attosecond resolution68
Solution-processed green and blue quantum-dot light-emitting diodes with eliminated charge leakage68
Efficient solid-state photon upconversion enabled by triplet formation at an organic semiconductor interface68
Improved fatigue behaviour of perovskite solar cells with an interfacial starch–polyiodide buffer layer68
Label-free biomedical optical imaging67
Silver telluride colloidal quantum dot infrared photodetectors and image sensors67
Multicolour stretchable perovskite electroluminescent devices for user-interactive displays67
Memristor phase shifters65
A wavelength-scale black phosphorus spectrometer65
Redlining lasers for nuclear fusion65
Optical secrets of the natural world64
Microwave–optical transducer efficiency boost64
Sub-diffraction imaging64
Inverse-designed reflectors63
Laser-written liquid crystal63
Fusion news ignites optimism63
Tracking tiny proteins sans fluorescence62
MINFLUX achieves molecular resolution with minimal photons62
Detecting spin polarization62
Tunnelling escape of waves62
Femtosecond laser writes a broadband miniaturized isolator62
Micro-optics enables directional thermal displays61
Metamaterials in the bio-world61
Optical biosensors towards the clinic59
Shaping light for optogenetics59
STED microscopy enters the ångström regime58
Light in the fast lane58
Emitting organically57
Metasurfaces for edge encoding with incoherent light57
The carbon footprint of research papers57
Trailblazing lasing57
It’s a matter of time57
Metasurfaces get smart56
Microwave oscillator on a chip56
Novel light manipulation56
Bigger and better56
Ever-evolving optical lattice clocks55
Observation of light-driven band structure via multiband high-harmonic spectroscopy55
Publisher Correction: Speed scaling in multiphoton fluorescence microscopy54
Introduction of magneto-fluorescence fluctuation microspectroscopy for investigating quantum effects in biology54
Publisher Correction: Cryogenic optical data link for superconducting circuits54
Addendum: Slow carrier relaxation in tin-based perovskite nanocrystals54
A conformal mapping approach to broadband nonlinear optics on chip54
Driven by feedback, unlimited by diffraction53
Metal–organic framework scintillators detect radioactive gases53
A quantum-bit encoding converter53
Lighting up a nest for X-ray emission53
Author Correction: A ferroelectric multilevel non-volatile photonic phase shifter53
Laser pulse compression by a density gradient plasma for exawatt to zettawatt lasers52
Random-access wide-field mesoscopy for centimetre-scale imaging of biodynamics with subcellular resolution52
When MXenes meet terahertz radiation52
A leap to highly efficient 2D quantum emitters52
High-resolution non-line-of-sight imaging employing active focusing52
Retraction Note: Luminescent solar concentrator efficiency enhanced via nearly lossless propagation pathways52
Cascaded particle accelerators reach new energy52
A bit of gain, electrically injected51
Quantum state processing through controllable synthetic temporal photonic lattices51
Fundamental scaling laws of water-window X-rays from free-electron-driven van der Waals structures50
Photon-number entanglement generated by sequential excitation of a two-level atom50
Integrated non-reciprocal magneto-optics with ultra-high endurance for photonic in-memory computing50
Large-angle twist effect50
Multi-spectral reflection matrix for ultrafast 3D label-free microscopy50
Author Correction: Interferometric imaging of amplitude and phase of spatial biphoton states50
Photonics and the Nobel Prize in Physics50
Chiral topological light for detection of robust enantiosensitive observables49
Scrutinizing liquid molecules49
Probing attosecond phenomena in solids48
A diamond voltage imaging microscope48
Unified laser stabilization and isolation on a silicon chip48
Chameleon graphene surfaces48
Author Correction: High-precision digital terahertz phase manipulation within a multichannel field perturbation coding chip46
Taming light in all dimensions46
Ultrafast interaction between Rydberg atoms46
Widely tunable electron bunch trains for the generation of high-power narrowband 1–10 THz radiation45
Scaling up single-photon detector arrays45
Metal–organic frameworks protect perovskite45
High secret key rate goes a long way44
Image-guided computational holographic wavefront shaping43
Subradiant directional memory in cooperative scattering43
New nonlinear opportunities in the ultraviolet43
Room-temperature electron spin polarization exceeding 90% in an opto-spintronic semiconductor nanostructure via remote spin filtering43
Mid-gap trap state-mediated dark current in organic photodiodes42
Threading light through dynamic complex media42
Resource-efficient photonic quantum computation with high-dimensional cluster states42
Highly efficient printed quantum dot light-emitting diodes through ultrahigh-definition double-layer transfer printing42
Surpassing the nonlinear conversion efficiency of soliton microcombs42
Reconfigurable metasurfaces towards commercial success41
Colossal in-plane optical anisotropy in a two-dimensional van der Waals crystal41
Solution-processed PbS quantum dot infrared laser with room-temperature tunable emission in the optical telecommunications window41
High-rate quantum key distribution exceeding 110 Mb s–141
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