OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Light-Science & Applications is 90. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Light People: Professor Manijeh Razeghi	458
Light People: Professor Cheng Zhang	451
Quantum imaging with ultra-thin metasurfaces	426
Advancing on-chip Kerr optical parametric oscillation towards coherent applications covering the green gap	366
Doped high-entropy glassy materials to create optical coherence from maximally disordered systems	358
Learnable digital signal processing: a new benchmark of linearity compensation for optical fiber communications	347
Non-reciprocal response in silicon photonic resonators integrated with 2D CuCrP2S6 at short-wave infrared	297
Observing half-integer topological winding numbers in non-Hermitian synthetic lattices	294
Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10−6 noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification	257
Quantum correlation-enhanced dual-comb spectroscopy	255
Exploiting optical degrees of freedom for information multiplexing in diffractive neural networks	247
Long-range-interacting topological photonic lattices breaking channel-bandwidth limit	229
OLED illuminated metasurfaces for holographic image projection	229
Advancing lasers in silicon photonics	222
Optoelectronic polymer memristors with dynamic control for power-efficient in-sensor edge computing	221
Chip-based label-free incoherent super-resolution optical microscopy	219
Image processing with Optical matrix vector multipliers implemented for encoding and decoding tasks	215
Dimensionality-enhanced mid-infrared light vortex detection based on multilayer graphene	207
Strong-field photoelectron holography in the subcycle limit	207
Celebrate a decade of publishing: ten things in ten years	204
New soliton dynamics revealed in the normal dispersion region	193
Dose-efficient scanning Compton X-ray microscopy	192
Double-chirped mirrors expand the bandwidth of infrared frequency combs	188
From past to future: on-chip laser sources for photonic integrated circuits	187
Enhancing spatiotemporal focusing of light deep inside scattering media with Time-Gated Reflection Matrix	184

Efficient ultrafast laser writing with elliptical polarization	175
Geometric phase-encoded stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals for visualizing real-time remote monitoring: humidity sensing as a proof of concept	172
Orbital angular momentum-mediated machine learning for high-accuracy mode-feature encoding	171
A multi-mode super-fano mechanism for enhanced third harmonic generation in silicon metasurfaces	162
Aberration-robust monocular passive depth sensing using a meta-imaging camera	160
Generation of squeezed vacuum state in the millihertz frequency band	159
Anneal-free ultra-low loss silicon nitride integrated photonics	156
Ultrasound sensing with optical microcavities	155
Polarization modulation with optical lock-in detection reveals universal fluorescence anisotropy of subcellular structures in live cells	155
Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules	155
Highly DUV to NIR-II responsive broadband quantum dots heterojunction photodetectors by integrating quantum cutting luminescent concentrators	152
A self-assembling nanoplatform for pyroptosis and ferroptosis enhanced cancer photoimmunotherapy	151
Comment on “Early cancer detection by serum biomolecular fingerprinting spectroscopy with machine learning”	151
Nonlinear Rydberg exciton-polaritons in Cu2O microcavities	147
All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials	146
Thickness bound for nonlocal wide-field-of-view metalenses	144
High efficiency pure blue perovskite quantum dot light-emitting diodes based on formamidinium manipulating carrier dynamics and electron state filling	139
Liquid bidentate ligand for full ligand coverage towards efficient near-infrared perovskite quantum dot LEDs	137
High-order femtosecond vortices up to the 30th order generated from a powerful mode-locked Hermite-Gaussian laser	137
Fractal photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators to generate multiple quantum chiral edge states	136
Non-convex optimization for inverse problem solving in computer-generated holography	135
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics	135
Creating and moving nanoantenna cold spots anywhere	134
Electrodynamics of photonic temporal interfaces	134
Light People: Prof. Juejun Hu, exploring the light	134
Symmetric private information retrieval supported by quantum-secure key-exchange network	134
Frequency comb-to-comb stabilization over a 1.3-km free-space atmospheric optical link	133
Reconstructive spectrometers taper down in price	132
15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance through femtosecond-laser spectral engineering and thermal management	132
Transverse mode coupling in monolithic few-mode fiber laser oscillators	131
Tunnelling of electrons via the neighboring atom	131
Using light to image millimeter wave based on stacked meta-MEMS chip	131
Efficient second harmonic generation by harnessing bound states in the continuum in semi-nonlinear etchless lithium niobate waveguides	130
Phase-tailored assembly and encoding of dissipative soliton molecules	130
Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy	129
Metamaterial-enabled arbitrary on-chip spatial mode manipulation	128
Universal adaptive optics for microscopy through embedded neural network control	127
Broadband infrared imaging governed by guided-mode resonance in dielectric metasurfaces	124
Ultrabright near-infrared light	124
Tandem light-emitting technology accelerates the commercial application of perovskite LEDs	123
Transient stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy and imaging	119
Deep-trap ultraviolet persistent phosphor for advanced optical storage application in bright environments	119
Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry	113
Construction of optical spatiotemporal skyrmions	113
Enhanced multiscale human brain imaging by semi-supervised digital staining and serial sectioning optical coherence tomography	113
Self-powered and broadband opto-sensor with bionic visual adaptation function based on multilayer γ-InSe flakes	112
Deep learning-based virtual staining, segmentation, and classification in label-free photoacoustic histology of human specimens	110
End-to-end design of multicolor scintillators for enhanced energy resolution in X-ray imaging	109
Perovskite single-pixel detector for dual-color metasurface imaging recognition in complex environment	108
Snapshot multispectral imaging using a diffractive optical network	106

Mold-free self-assembled scalable microlens arrays with ultrasmooth surface and record-high resolution	103
Towards higher-dimensional structured light	102
Mid-infrared III–V semiconductor lasers epitaxially grown on Si substrates	101
Real-time reconfigurable metasurfaces enabling agile terahertz wave front manipulation	101
Dynamically tunable long-range coupling enabled by bound state in the continuum	100
Strongly absorbing molecules make tissue transparent: a new insight for understanding tissue optical clearing	100
Light People \| Prof. Wei Lu spoke about infrared physics	98
Fast, faster, and the fastest structured illumination microscopy	98
Efficient on-chip terahertz generation and detection with GaN photoconductive emitters	97
Quantum computing predicts particle trajectories in optical tweezers	97
Shedding light on biology and healthcare—preface to the special issue on Biomedical Optics	96
“QuanTour” illuminates Europe with single photons: celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025	94
Calibration-free speckle matrix imaging	94
Intelligent metasurfaces can recognize objects	91
Small and simple: next-generation miniaturized diffraction-based spectrometer with computational reconstruction algorithms	91