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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Light People: Professor Cheng Zhang	928
Light People: Professor Manijeh Razeghi	422
Doped high-entropy glassy materials to create optical coherence from maximally disordered systems	416
Enhancing spatiotemporal focusing of light deep inside scattering media with Time-Gated Reflection Matrix	404
Light People: Professor John Dudley spoke about supercontinuum generation and International Day of Light	375
Quantum imaging with ultra-thin metasurfaces	338
Efficient ultrafast laser writing with elliptical polarization	338
Strong-field photoelectron holography in the subcycle limit	332
Comment on “Early cancer detection by serum biomolecular fingerprinting spectroscopy with machine learning”	318
Non-reciprocal response in silicon photonic resonators integrated with 2D CuCrP2S6 at short-wave infrared	267
Celebrate a decade of publishing: ten things in ten years	263
Dimensionality-enhanced mid-infrared light vortex detection based on multilayer graphene	259
Learnable digital signal processing: a new benchmark of linearity compensation for optical fiber communications	230
Thickness bound for nonlocal wide-field-of-view metalenses	227
Dose-efficient scanning Compton X-ray microscopy	220
Advancing lasers in silicon photonics	218
Observing half-integer topological winding numbers in non-Hermitian synthetic lattices	209
Aberration-robust monocular passive depth sensing using a meta-imaging camera	202
Quantum correlation-enhanced dual-comb spectroscopy	199
Fractal photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators to generate multiple quantum chiral edge states	198
Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10−6 noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification	198
New soliton dynamics revealed in the normal dispersion region	184
Long-range-interacting topological photonic lattices breaking channel-bandwidth limit	183
Nonlinear Rydberg exciton-polaritons in Cu2O microcavities	182
Polarization modulation with optical lock-in detection reveals universal fluorescence anisotropy of subcellular structures in live cells	179

Image processing with Optical matrix vector multipliers implemented for encoding and decoding tasks	168
Chip-based label-free incoherent super-resolution optical microscopy	166
Generation of squeezed vacuum state in the millihertz frequency band	158
Non-convex optimization for inverse problem solving in computer-generated holography	158
A self-assembling nanoplatform for pyroptosis and ferroptosis enhanced cancer photoimmunotherapy	157
Anneal-free ultra-low loss silicon nitride integrated photonics	156
High-order femtosecond vortices up to the 30th order generated from a powerful mode-locked Hermite-Gaussian laser	149
OLED illuminated metasurfaces for holographic image projection	147
Hot-band absorption of indocyanine green for advanced anti-stokes fluorescence bioimaging	146
High efficiency pure blue perovskite quantum dot light-emitting diodes based on formamidinium manipulating carrier dynamics and electron state filling	143
Advancing on-chip Kerr optical parametric oscillation towards coherent applications covering the green gap	143
All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials	142
Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules	138
From past to future: on-chip laser sources for photonic integrated circuits	138
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics	137
Highly DUV to NIR-II responsive broadband quantum dots heterojunction photodetectors by integrating quantum cutting luminescent concentrators	136
A multi-mode super-fano mechanism for enhanced third harmonic generation in silicon metasurfaces	135
Liquid bidentate ligand for full ligand coverage towards efficient near-infrared perovskite quantum dot LEDs	133
Polarisation optics for biomedical and clinical applications: a review	133
Orbital angular momentum-mediated machine learning for high-accuracy mode-feature encoding	132
Exploiting optical degrees of freedom for information multiplexing in diffractive neural networks	130
Ultrasound sensing with optical microcavities	130
Geometric phase-encoded stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals for visualizing real-time remote monitoring: humidity sensing as a proof of concept	130
Transverse mode coupling in monolithic few-mode fiber laser oscillators	126
15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance through femtosecond-laser spectral engineering and thermal management	126
Ultrabright near-infrared light	125
Perovskite single-pixel detector for dual-color metasurface imaging recognition in complex environment	124
Broadband infrared imaging governed by guided-mode resonance in dielectric metasurfaces	124
Metamaterial-enabled arbitrary on-chip spatial mode manipulation	122
End-to-end design of multicolor scintillators for enhanced energy resolution in X-ray imaging	121
Mold-free self-assembled scalable microlens arrays with ultrasmooth surface and record-high resolution	121
Towards higher-dimensional structured light	120
Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry	119
Self-powered and broadband opto-sensor with bionic visual adaptation function based on multilayer γ-InSe flakes	119
Snapshot multispectral imaging using a diffractive optical network	119
Enhanced multiscale human brain imaging by semi-supervised digital staining and serial sectioning optical coherence tomography	117
Light People: Prof. Juejun Hu, exploring the light	117
1700 nm broadband laser source enables deep brain optical biopsy	116
Creating and moving nanoantenna cold spots anywhere	115
Symmetric private information retrieval supported by quantum-secure key-exchange network	114
Tunnelling of electrons via the neighboring atom	114
Using light to image millimeter wave based on stacked meta-MEMS chip	111
Reconstructive spectrometers taper down in price	110
Transient stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy and imaging	108
Tandem light-emitting technology accelerates the commercial application of perovskite LEDs	107
Mid-infrared III–V semiconductor lasers epitaxially grown on Si substrates	106
Frequency comb-to-comb stabilization over a 1.3-km free-space atmospheric optical link	106
Deep learning-based virtual staining, segmentation, and classification in label-free photoacoustic histology of human specimens	106
Universal adaptive optics for microscopy through embedded neural network control	106
Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy	106

Phase-tailored assembly and encoding of dissipative soliton molecules	104
Deep-trap ultraviolet persistent phosphor for advanced optical storage application in bright environments	103
Efficient second harmonic generation by harnessing bound states in the continuum in semi-nonlinear etchless lithium niobate waveguides	103
Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials	102
Shedding light on biology and healthcare—preface to the special issue on Biomedical Optics	102
Dynamic control and manipulation of near-fields using direct feedback	101
Correction: Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges	101
E2E-BPF microscope: extended depth-of-field microscopy using learning-based implementation of binary phase filter and image deconvolution	100
A multichannel optical computing architecture for advanced machine vision	99
Calibration-free speckle matrix imaging	97
Attentional Ptycho-Tomography (APT) for three-dimensional nanoscale X-ray imaging with minimal data acquisition and computation time	96
“QuanTour” illuminates Europe with single photons: celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025	93
Optical nonlinearity goes ultrafast in 2D semiconductor-based nanocavities	92
Passive radiant cooling without sacrificing the aesthetics of objects	91
Small and simple: next-generation miniaturized diffraction-based spectrometer with computational reconstruction algorithms	91