Light-Science & Applications

Article	Citations
Light People: Professor Manijeh Razeghi	441
Light People: Professor Cheng Zhang	438
Quantum imaging with ultra-thin metasurfaces	412
Strong-field photoelectron holography in the subcycle limit	358
Dose-efficient scanning Compton X-ray microscopy	350
Observing half-integer topological winding numbers in non-Hermitian synthetic lattices	347
Enhancing spatiotemporal focusing of light deep inside scattering media with Time-Gated Reflection Matrix	338
Image processing with Optical matrix vector multipliers implemented for encoding and decoding tasks	288
Ultrasound sensing with optical microcavities	282
A multi-mode super-fano mechanism for enhanced third harmonic generation in silicon metasurfaces	249
Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10−6 noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification	248
Quantum correlation-enhanced dual-comb spectroscopy	239
Nonlinear Rydberg exciton-polaritons in Cu2O microcavities	225
Thickness bound for nonlocal wide-field-of-view metalenses	221
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics	219
Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules	212
Exploiting optical degrees of freedom for information multiplexing in diffractive neural networks	212
OLED illuminated metasurfaces for holographic image projection	211
Chip-based label-free incoherent super-resolution optical microscopy	200
Long-range-interacting topological photonic lattices breaking channel-bandwidth limit	198
Comment on “Early cancer detection by serum biomolecular fingerprinting spectroscopy with machine learning”	195
Advancing lasers in silicon photonics	183
Aberration-robust monocular passive depth sensing using a meta-imaging camera	180
Optoelectronic polymer memristors with dynamic control for power-efficient in-sensor edge computing	178
Celebrate a decade of publishing: ten things in ten years	175

High efficiency pure blue perovskite quantum dot light-emitting diodes based on formamidinium manipulating carrier dynamics and electron state filling	172
High-order femtosecond vortices up to the 30th order generated from a powerful mode-locked Hermite-Gaussian laser	172
Fractal photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators to generate multiple quantum chiral edge states	170
Dimensionality-enhanced mid-infrared light vortex detection based on multilayer graphene	166
Polarization modulation with optical lock-in detection reveals universal fluorescence anisotropy of subcellular structures in live cells	158
Advancing on-chip Kerr optical parametric oscillation towards coherent applications covering the green gap	154
Efficient ultrafast laser writing with elliptical polarization	153
All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials	151
Doped high-entropy glassy materials to create optical coherence from maximally disordered systems	151
New soliton dynamics revealed in the normal dispersion region	149
From past to future: on-chip laser sources for photonic integrated circuits	149
Geometric phase-encoded stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals for visualizing real-time remote monitoring: humidity sensing as a proof of concept	148
Highly DUV to NIR-II responsive broadband quantum dots heterojunction photodetectors by integrating quantum cutting luminescent concentrators	146
Orbital angular momentum-mediated machine learning for high-accuracy mode-feature encoding	142
Learnable digital signal processing: a new benchmark of linearity compensation for optical fiber communications	142
Anneal-free ultra-low loss silicon nitride integrated photonics	142
Non-reciprocal response in silicon photonic resonators integrated with 2D CuCrP2S6 at short-wave infrared	138
A self-assembling nanoplatform for pyroptosis and ferroptosis enhanced cancer photoimmunotherapy	137
Non-convex optimization for inverse problem solving in computer-generated holography	137
Generation of squeezed vacuum state in the millihertz frequency band	135
Using light to image millimeter wave based on stacked meta-MEMS chip	133
Liquid bidentate ligand for full ligand coverage towards efficient near-infrared perovskite quantum dot LEDs	133
15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance through femtosecond-laser spectral engineering and thermal management	133
Light People: Prof. Juejun Hu, exploring the light	132
Frequency comb-to-comb stabilization over a 1.3-km free-space atmospheric optical link	132
Creating and moving nanoantenna cold spots anywhere	131
Metamaterial-enabled arbitrary on-chip spatial mode manipulation	130
Symmetric private information retrieval supported by quantum-secure key-exchange network	130
Electrodynamics of photonic temporal interfaces	129
Mold-free self-assembled scalable microlens arrays with ultrasmooth surface and record-high resolution	129
Efficient second harmonic generation by harnessing bound states in the continuum in semi-nonlinear etchless lithium niobate waveguides	128
Reconstructive spectrometers taper down in price	128
Enhanced multiscale human brain imaging by semi-supervised digital staining and serial sectioning optical coherence tomography	127
Tunnelling of electrons via the neighboring atom	127
Snapshot multispectral imaging using a diffractive optical network	124
Transient stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy and imaging	124
Deep-trap ultraviolet persistent phosphor for advanced optical storage application in bright environments	123
Broadband infrared imaging governed by guided-mode resonance in dielectric metasurfaces	122
End-to-end design of multicolor scintillators for enhanced energy resolution in X-ray imaging	119
Tandem light-emitting technology accelerates the commercial application of perovskite LEDs	119
Construction of optical spatiotemporal skyrmions	118
Ultrabright near-infrared light	116
Transverse mode coupling in monolithic few-mode fiber laser oscillators	116
Towards higher-dimensional structured light	115
Self-powered and broadband opto-sensor with bionic visual adaptation function based on multilayer γ-InSe flakes	114
Universal adaptive optics for microscopy through embedded neural network control	111
Deep learning-based virtual staining, segmentation, and classification in label-free photoacoustic histology of human specimens	111
Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry	110
Perovskite single-pixel detector for dual-color metasurface imaging recognition in complex environment	110
Phase-tailored assembly and encoding of dissipative soliton molecules	107

Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy	107
Mid-infrared III–V semiconductor lasers epitaxially grown on Si substrates	106
Correction: Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges	105
Real-time reconfigurable metasurfaces enabling agile terahertz wave front manipulation	104
Strongly absorbing molecules make tissue transparent: a new insight for understanding tissue optical clearing	100
Experimental demonstration of 8190-km long-haul semiconductor-laser chaos synchronization induced by digital optical communication signal	99
Dynamically tunable long-range coupling enabled by bound state in the continuum	96
Fast, faster, and the fastest structured illumination microscopy	96
Polarization multiplexed diffractive computing: all-optical implementation of a group of linear transformations through a polarization-encoded diffractive network	95
Tunable optical topological transitions of plasmon polaritons in WTe2 van der Waals films	95
A multichannel optical computing architecture for advanced machine vision	94
Anisotropic leaky-like perturbation with subwavelength gratings enables zero crosstalk	93
A new function of photochromic spiropyran: an efficient photoinitiator for two-photon polymerization	92
Efficient on-chip terahertz generation and detection with GaN photoconductive emitters	92
Monolithic integration of embedded III-V lasers on SOI	92
Dynamic control and manipulation of near-fields using direct feedback	92
Shedding light on biology and healthcare—preface to the special issue on Biomedical Optics	92
Programmable optical encryption using thickness-controlled stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers	91
Physisorption-assistant optoelectronic synaptic transistors based on Ta2NiSe5/SnS2 heterojunction from ultraviolet to near-infrared	90
Quantum dot-enabled infrared hyperspectral imaging with single-pixel detection	84
Bio-inspired micropatterned thermochromic hydrogel for concurrent smart solar transmission and rapid visible-light stealth at all-working temperatures	83
Light People | Prof. Wei Lu spoke about infrared physics	82
Visualizing the internalization and biological impact of nanoplastics in live intestinal organoids by Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)	82
Calibration-free speckle matrix imaging	80
“QuanTour” illuminates Europe with single photons: celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025	80
Attentional Ptycho-Tomography (APT) for three-dimensional nanoscale X-ray imaging with minimal data acquisition and computation time	80
Quantum computing predicts particle trajectories in optical tweezers	80
Optical nonlinearity goes ultrafast in 2D semiconductor-based nanocavities	79
Advance of large-area achromatic flat lenses	79
Intelligent metasurfaces can recognize objects	79
Passive radiant cooling without sacrificing the aesthetics of objects	79
Small and simple: next-generation miniaturized diffraction-based spectrometer with computational reconstruction algorithms	79
All-optical permittivity-asymmetric quasi-bound states in the continuum	78
Light people: professor Fei Ding	78
EventLFM: event camera integrated Fourier light field microscopy for ultrafast 3D imaging	78
Visualizing mitochondrial dynamics at the nanoscale	78
Photonic neuromorphic architecture for tens-of-task lifelong learning	78
Ultrafast near-infrared pyroelectric detector based on inhomogeneous plasmonic metasurface	77
Author Correction: Graphene-driving strain engineering to enable strain-free epitaxy of AlN film for deep ultraviolet light-emitting diode	77
Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials	76
E2E-BPF microscope: extended depth-of-field microscopy using learning-based implementation of binary phase filter and image deconvolution	75
Portable astronomical observation system based on large-aperture concentric-ring metalens	75
Shape optimization for high efficiency metasurfaces: theory and implementation	75
Electro-optic tuning in composite silicon photonics based on ferroionic 2D materials	74
Excitation-wavelength-dependent persistent luminescence from single-component nonstoichiometric CaGaxO4:Bi for dynamic anti-counterfeiting	74
Exciton-harvesting enabled efficient charged particle detection in zero-dimensional halides	74
Non-volatile photonic-electronic memory via 3D monolithic ferroelectric-silicon ring resonator	73
Developing momentum in vanishing index photonics	73
A new member of the structured light family: optical spatiotemporal vortices	73
Laser-written reconfigurable photonic integrated circuit directly coupled to a single-photon avalanche diode array	72
Light People: Professor Dayong Jin	72
All-on-chip reconfigurable generation of scalar and vectorial orbital angular momentum beams	71
Submonolayer biolasers for ultrasensitive biomarker detection	71
Manipulating cavity photon dynamics by topologically curved space	71
Two-photon emission from a superlattice-based superconducting light-emitting structure	71
A single-photon source based on topological bulk cavity	71
Light People: Professor Stefan Hell	70
A memristive-photoconductive transduction methodology for accurately nondestructive memory readout	69
Photo-induced macro/mesoscopic scale ion displacement in mixed-halide perovskites: ring structures and ionic plasma oscillations	69
Chaotic microlasers caused by internal mode interaction for random number generation	68
An Optoelectronic thermometer based on microscale infrared-to-visible conversion devices	67
Perovskite beyond solar: toward novel developments of lasers and detectors for photonic circuits	67
Interface second harmonic generation enhancement in bulk WS2/MoS2 hetero-bilayer van der Waals nanoantennas	66
Shaping the light of VCSELs through cavity geometry design	66
Neural stimulation and modulation with sub-cellular precision by optomechanical bio-dart	65
Pockels laser directly driving ultrafast optical metrology	65
Optical probing of ultrafast laser-induced solid-to-overdense-plasma transitions	65
A system-on-chip microwave photonic processor solves dynamic RF interference in real time with picosecond latency	65
Multifunctional photon conversion materials for enhancing silicon solar cells	65
Biopsy-free in vivo virtual histology of skin using deep learning	64
Tunable liquid crystal grating based holographic 3D display system with wide viewing angle and large size	64
1-Pbps orbital angular momentum fibre-optic transmission	64
Plasmonic metafibers electro-optic modulators	63
Single-shot compressed optical field topography	62
Wavelength-multiplexed multi-mode EUV reflection ptychography based on automatic differentiation	62
Carbonized polymer dots enhanced stability and flexibility of quasi-2D perovskite photodetector	62
Light People: Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu	61
Harnessing the capabilities of VCSELs: unlocking the potential for advanced integrated photonic devices and systems	61
Force measurement goes to femto-Newton sensitivity of single microscopic particle	61
A whispering-gallery scanning microprobe for Raman spectroscopy and imaging	61

Ultra-compact fiber tapering: plasmonics and structural bending as new combination of heat and pull	60
Optical demonstration of quantum fault-tolerant threshold	60
Author Correction: Strong nonlinear optical processes with extraordinary polarization anisotropy in inversion-symmetry broken two-dimensional PdPSe	60
Quasicrystal metasurface for optical holography and diffraction	59
Twisted microdomains in liquid crystals for polarization-insensitive phase modulation	59
High brightness terahertz quantum cascade laser with near-diffraction-limited Gaussian beam	59
Multifaceted control of focal points along an arbitrary 3D curved trajectory	58
Tunable single emitter-cavity coupling strength through waveguide-assisted energy quantum transfer	58
Surface-emitting lasers meet metasurfaces	58
A high-precision multi-dimensional microspectroscopic technique for morphological and properties analysis of cancer cell	58
Cavity-enhanced photoacoustic dual-comb spectroscopy	58
Light People: Professor Guangcan Guo	58
A wideband, high-resolution vector spectrum analyzer for integrated photonics	58
Adaptive 3D descattering with a dynamic synthesis network	58
Low cross-talk optical addressing of trapped-ion qubits using a novel integrated photonic chip	58
Lanthanide ion-doped upconversion nanoparticles for low-energy super-resolution applications	57
Quantum sensing with optically accessible spin defects in van der Waals layered materials	57
Single 5-nm quantum dot detection via microtoroid optical resonator photothermal microscopy	57
A multifunctional optoelectronic device based on 2D material with wide bandgap	56
Rare-earth based materials: an effective toolbox for brain imaging, therapy, monitoring and neuromodulation	56
Rapid species identification of pathogenic bacteria from a minute quantity exploiting three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging and artificial neural network	56
Publisher Correction: Calibration-free speckle matrix imaging	56
Dual-function perovskite light-emitting/sensing devices for optical interactive display	56
Vertically stacked skin-like active-matrix display with ultrahigh aperture ratio	55
High-efficiency 90Sr radio-photovoltaic cells based on waveguide light concentration structure	55
Epsilon-near-zero nonlinearity enhancement in the extreme ultraviolet	55
Dispersion coding of ENZ media via multiple photonic dopants	55
A versatile interferometric technique for probing the thermophysical properties of complex fluids	55
Recent advances in metasurface design and quantum optics applications with machine learning, physics-informed neural networks, and topology optimization methods	54
Revolutionizing solid-state single-photon sources with multifunctional metalenses	54
Versatile optoelectronic memristor based on wide-bandgap Ga2O3 for artificial synapses and neuromorphic computing	54
From light sensing to adaptive learning: hafnium diselenide reconfigurable memcapacitive devices in neuromorphic computing	54
Advancing optothermal manipulation: decoupling temperature and flow fields in quasi-isothermal microscale streaming	54
Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer	54
Twisted phonon polaritons at deep subwavelength scale	54
Absolute characterization of high numerical aperture microscope objectives utilizing a dipole scatterer	53
Programmable electron-induced color router array	53
Large-scale combinatorial optical barcoding of cells with laser particles	53
Efficient photon-pair generation in layer-poled lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides	53
Metalens and microtaper spectrometers on a fingertip	53
Terabits without fibres	53
Transport of intensity diffraction tomography with non-interferometric synthetic aperture for three-dimensional label-free microscopy	52
Compact multi-foci metalens spectrometer	52
Parity-Time symmetry helps breaking a new limit	52
Precise mode control of laser-written waveguides for broadband, low-dispersion 3D integrated optics	52
Parameter estimation of the structured illumination pattern based on principal component analysis (PCA): PCA-SIM	52
Light amplified oxidative stress in tumor microenvironment by carbonized hemin nanoparticles for boosting photodynamic anticancer therapy	52
Realization of quantum secure direct communication over 100 km fiber with time-bin and phase quantum states	52
Water-insensitive down-shifting nanoparticles for sensitive biosensing	52
Direct demonstration of triplet excimer in purely organic room temperature phosphorescence through rational molecular design	52
Ultra-simplified diffraction-based computational spectrometer	51
Nonvolatile electrical switching of optical and valleytronic properties of interlayer excitons	51
Experimental verification of generalized eigenstate thermalization hypothesis in an integrable system	51
Observation of ~100% valley-coherent excitons in monolayer MoS2 through giant enhancement of valley coherence time	51
Towards high-power mid-IR light source tunable from 3.8 to 4.5 µm by HBr-filled hollow-core silica fibres	51
Photoenergy harvesting by ammonium molybdate soft hydrogel drops	51
A monolithically sculpted van der Waals nano-opto-electro-mechanical coupler	51
4th generation synchrotron source boosts crystalline imaging at the nanoscale	51
Giant mid-IR resonant coupling to molecular vibrations in sub-nm gaps of plasmonic multilayer metafilms	51
Optical sorting: past, present and future	50
Operando ZnO recrystallization for efficient quantum-dot light-emitting diodes	50
Unveiling bulk and surface radiation forces in a dielectric liquid	50
Fluorescence polarization modulation super-resolution imaging provides refined dynamics orientation processes in biological samples	49
Control of light emission of quantum emitters coupled to silicon nanoantenna using cylindrical vector beams	49
Significant reduction of corrosion of stainless steel by strong-field laser surface passivation	49
Versatile chip-based nanoscopy becomes ready for histopathology assessment	49
Rising complexity of the OAM beam structure as a way to a higher data capacity	49
Quantum CZ gates on a single gradient metasurface	49
Impinge Weyl advantages on light	49
An open invisible space enabled by reconfigurable metasurfaces and self-play reinforcement learning	48
Electrically pumped surface-emitting amplified spontaneous emission from colloidal quantum dots	48
Light People: Prof. Eric Mazur speaks about ultrafast optics and education	48
On-chip single-crystal plasmonic optoelectronics for efficient hot carrier collection and photovoltage detection	48
Linear and nonlinear record high optical birefringence in anisotropic van der Waals crystals	48
Highly-efficient (>70%) and Wide-spectral (400–1700 nm) sub-micron-thick InGaAs photodiodes for future high-resolution image sensors	47
Van der Waals two-color infrared photodetector	47
All-optical generation of static electric field in a single metal-semiconductor nanoantenna	47
Multi-dimensional band structure spectroscopy in the synthetic frequency dimension	47
A multiband NIR upconversion core-shell design for enhanced light harvesting of silicon solar cells	47
Dielectric Mie voids: confining light in air	47
Scalable parallel ultrafast optical random bit generation based on a single chaotic microcomb	47
Integrated sensing and communication in an optical fibre	46
Self-frequency-conversion nanowire lasers	46
Observation of transition from superfluorescence to polariton condensation in CsPbBr3 quantum dots film	46
Observation of nonlinear edge states in an interacting atomic trimer array	46
From genotype to phenotype: decoding mutations in blasts by holo-tomographic flow cytometry	45
First Chinese ultraviolet–visible hyperspectral satellite instrument implicating global air quality during the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020	45
Omnidirectional color wavelength tuning of stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers	45
Correction: A chip-scale second-harmonic source via self-injection-locked all-optical poling	45
Intense ultraviolet–visible–infrared full-spectrum laser	45
Bayesian optimization with Gaussian-process-based active machine learning for improvement of geometric accuracy in projection multi-photon 3D printing	45
Dynamical control of nanoscale light-matter interactions in low-dimensional quantum materials	45
Finite barrier bound state	45
Non-contact and nanometer-scale measurement of PN junction depth buried in Si wafers using terahertz emission spectroscopy	44
Arbitrarily polarized bound states in the continuum with twisted photonic crystal slabs	44