Light-Science & Applications

Article	Citations
Light People: Professor Cheng Zhang	886
Light People: Professor Manijeh Razeghi	409
Doped high-entropy glassy materials to create optical coherence from maximally disordered systems	407
Demonstration of 85% pump depletion and 10−6 noise content in quasi-parametric chirped-pulse amplification	392
Enhancing spatiotemporal focusing of light deep inside scattering media with Time-Gated Reflection Matrix	359
Focusing light into scattering media with ultrasound-induced field perturbation	331
Light People: Professor John Dudley spoke about supercontinuum generation and International Day of Light	327
Quantum imaging with ultra-thin metasurfaces	319
Efficient ultrafast laser writing with elliptical polarization	309
Strong-field photoelectron holography in the subcycle limit	261
Comment on “Early cancer detection by serum biomolecular fingerprinting spectroscopy with machine learning”	257
Fractal photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators to generate multiple quantum chiral edge states	257
Dimensionality-enhanced mid-infrared light vortex detection based on multilayer graphene	221
New soliton dynamics revealed in the normal dispersion region	221
High-order femtosecond vortices up to the 30th order generated from a powerful mode-locked Hermite-Gaussian laser	214
Polarization modulation with optical lock-in detection reveals universal fluorescence anisotropy of subcellular structures in live cells	211
Image processing with Optical matrix vector multipliers implemented for encoding and decoding tasks	203
Generation of squeezed vacuum state in the millihertz frequency band	196
Anneal-free ultra-low loss silicon nitride integrated photonics	190
Orbital angular momentum-mediated machine learning for high-accuracy mode-feature encoding	187
Non-reciprocal response in silicon photonic resonators integrated with 2D CuCrP2S6 at short-wave infrared	184
Hot-band absorption of indocyanine green for advanced anti-stokes fluorescence bioimaging	182
Celebrate a decade of publishing: ten things in ten years	182
Dose-efficient scanning Compton X-ray microscopy	176
Long-range-interacting topological photonic lattices breaking channel-bandwidth limit	171

Advancing lasers in silicon photonics	166
Aberration-robust monocular passive depth sensing using a meta-imaging camera	163
Observing half-integer topological winding numbers in non-Hermitian synthetic lattices	161
High efficiency pure blue perovskite quantum dot light-emitting diodes based on formamidinium manipulating carrier dynamics and electron state filling	152
A multi-mode super-fano mechanism for enhanced third harmonic generation in silicon metasurfaces	152
Nonlinear Rydberg exciton-polaritons in Cu2O microcavities	152
Learnable digital signal processing: a new benchmark of linearity compensation for optical fiber communications	152
Advancing on-chip Kerr optical parametric oscillation towards coherent applications covering the green gap	147
Thickness bound for nonlocal wide-field-of-view metalenses	145
From past to future: on-chip laser sources for photonic integrated circuits	144
Geometric phase-encoded stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals for visualizing real-time remote monitoring: humidity sensing as a proof of concept	142
Exploiting optical degrees of freedom for information multiplexing in diffractive neural networks	138
All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials	137
Quantum correlation-enhanced dual-comb spectroscopy	137
Ultrasound sensing with optical microcavities	135
Highly DUV to NIR-II responsive broadband quantum dots heterojunction photodetectors by integrating quantum cutting luminescent concentrators	135
Liquid bidentate ligand for full ligand coverage towards efficient near-infrared perovskite quantum dot LEDs	134
Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules	133
A self-assembling nanoplatform for pyroptosis and ferroptosis enhanced cancer photoimmunotherapy	133
Non-convex optimization for inverse problem solving in computer-generated holography	132
Polarisation optics for biomedical and clinical applications: a review	131
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics	130
End-to-end design of multicolor scintillators for enhanced energy resolution in X-ray imaging	130
Transverse mode coupling in monolithic few-mode fiber laser oscillators	128
Universal adaptive optics for microscopy through embedded neural network control	127
Metamaterial-enabled arbitrary on-chip spatial mode manipulation	126
Enhanced multiscale human brain imaging by semi-supervised digital staining and serial sectioning optical coherence tomography	122
Light People: Prof. Juejun Hu, exploring the light	121
1700 nm broadband laser source enables deep brain optical biopsy	121
Creating and moving nanoantenna cold spots anywhere	120
Symmetric private information retrieval supported by quantum-secure key-exchange network	118
Tandem light-emitting technology accelerates the commercial application of perovskite LEDs	118
Broadband infrared imaging governed by guided-mode resonance in dielectric metasurfaces	117
Frequency comb-to-comb stabilization over a 1.3-km free-space atmospheric optical link	117
Deep learning-based virtual staining, segmentation, and classification in label-free photoacoustic histology of human specimens	116
Snapshot multispectral imaging using a diffractive optical network	115
Mid-infrared III–V semiconductor lasers epitaxially grown on Si substrates	114
Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry	114
Tunnelling of electrons via the neighboring atom	113
Ultrabright near-infrared light	113
Using light to image millimeter wave based on stacked meta-MEMS chip	113
Phase-tailored assembly and encoding of dissipative soliton molecules	110
Reconstructive spectrometers taper down in price	109
Deep-trap ultraviolet persistent phosphor for advanced optical storage application in bright environments	106
Mold-free self-assembled scalable microlens arrays with ultrasmooth surface and record-high resolution	106
Self-powered and broadband opto-sensor with bionic visual adaptation function based on multilayer γ-InSe flakes	104
Transient stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy and imaging	104
Towards higher-dimensional structured light	103
Efficient second harmonic generation by harnessing bound states in the continuum in semi-nonlinear etchless lithium niobate waveguides	103
Perovskite single-pixel detector for dual-color metasurface imaging recognition in complex environment	102

Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy	102
Shedding light on biology and healthcare—preface to the special issue on Biomedical Optics	101
Dynamic control and manipulation of near-fields using direct feedback	100
EventLFM: event camera integrated Fourier light field microscopy for ultrafast 3D imaging	100
All-optical permittivity-asymmetric quasi-bound states in the continuum	100
Real-time reconfigurable metasurfaces enabling agile terahertz wave front manipulation	100
Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials	100
Monolithic integration of embedded III-V lasers on SOI	98
Polarization multiplexed diffractive computing: all-optical implementation of a group of linear transformations through a polarization-encoded diffractive network	98
Quantum dot-enabled infrared hyperspectral imaging with single-pixel detection	98
Electro-optic tuning in composite silicon photonics based on ferroionic 2D materials	97
Photonic neuromorphic architecture for tens-of-task lifelong learning	96
Correction: Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges	95
Advance of large-area achromatic flat lenses	94
E2E-BPF microscope: extended depth-of-field microscopy using learning-based implementation of binary phase filter and image deconvolution	91
Programmable optical encryption using thickness-controlled stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers	91
Calibration-free speckle matrix imaging	90
“QuanTour” illuminates Europe with single photons: celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025	89
Attentional Ptycho-Tomography (APT) for three-dimensional nanoscale X-ray imaging with minimal data acquisition and computation time	89
Optical nonlinearity goes ultrafast in 2D semiconductor-based nanocavities	87
Passive radiant cooling without sacrificing the aesthetics of objects	86
Small and simple: next-generation miniaturized diffraction-based spectrometer with computational reconstruction algorithms	86
Author Correction: Graphene-driving strain engineering to enable strain-free epitaxy of AlN film for deep ultraviolet light-emitting diode	85
Intelligent metasurfaces can recognize objects	85
Quantum computing predicts particle trajectories in optical tweezers	85
Multimodal nonlinear endomicroscopic imaging probe using a double-core double-clad fiber and focus-combining micro-optical concept	83
Tunable optical topological transitions of plasmon polaritons in WTe2 van der Waals films	83
Portable astronomical observation system based on large-aperture concentric-ring metalens	82
Strongly absorbing molecules make tissue transparent: a new insight for understanding tissue optical clearing	80
Fast, faster, and the fastest structured illumination microscopy	80
Ultrafast near-infrared pyroelectric detector based on inhomogeneous plasmonic metasurface	79
Visualizing mitochondrial dynamics at the nanoscale	79
Efficient on-chip terahertz generation and detection with GaN photoconductive emitters	79
Exciton-harvesting enabled efficient charged particle detection in zero-dimensional halides	79
Shape optimization for high efficiency metasurfaces: theory and implementation	78
Physisorption-assistant optoelectronic synaptic transistors based on Ta2NiSe5/SnS2 heterojunction from ultraviolet to near-infrared	76
A multichannel optical computing architecture for advanced machine vision	76
Bio-inspired micropatterned thermochromic hydrogel for concurrent smart solar transmission and rapid visible-light stealth at all-working temperatures	75
Excitation-wavelength-dependent persistent luminescence from single-component nonstoichiometric CaGaxO4:Bi for dynamic anti-counterfeiting	74
Anisotropic leaky-like perturbation with subwavelength gratings enables zero crosstalk	74
Experimental demonstration of 8190-km long-haul semiconductor-laser chaos synchronization induced by digital optical communication signal	74
A new function of photochromic spiropyran: an efficient photoinitiator for two-photon polymerization	73
Non-volatile photonic-electronic memory via 3D monolithic ferroelectric-silicon ring resonator	72
Developing momentum in vanishing index photonics	72
A new member of the structured light family: optical spatiotemporal vortices	72
Force measurement goes to femto-Newton sensitivity of single microscopic particle	71
Carbonized polymer dots enhanced stability and flexibility of quasi-2D perovskite photodetector	70
Visualising the heart of chaos	70
All-on-chip reconfigurable generation of scalar and vectorial orbital angular momentum beams	70
Light People: Professor Stefan Hell	70
Plasmonic metafibers electro-optic modulators	70
Light People: Professor Dayong Jin	69
Double-bowl state in photonic Dirac nodal line semimetal	69
Laser-written reconfigurable photonic integrated circuit directly coupled to a single-photon avalanche diode array	69
Neural stimulation and modulation with sub-cellular precision by optomechanical bio-dart	69
An Optoelectronic thermometer based on microscale infrared-to-visible conversion devices	68
Tunable liquid crystal grating based holographic 3D display system with wide viewing angle and large size	68
Photo-induced macro/mesoscopic scale ion displacement in mixed-halide perovskites: ring structures and ionic plasma oscillations	68
Two-photon emission from a superlattice-based superconducting light-emitting structure	68
Manipulating cavity photon dynamics by topologically curved space	68
Optical probing of ultrafast laser-induced solid-to-overdense-plasma transitions	68
Single-shot compressed optical field topography	67
Perovskite beyond solar: toward novel developments of lasers and detectors for photonic circuits	67
A system-on-chip microwave photonic processor solves dynamic RF interference in real time with picosecond latency	67
Submonolayer biolasers for ultrasensitive biomarker detection	67
Wavelength-multiplexed multi-mode EUV reflection ptychography based on automatic differentiation	67
Pockels laser directly driving ultrafast optical metrology	66
A whispering-gallery scanning microprobe for Raman spectroscopy and imaging	66
1-Pbps orbital angular momentum fibre-optic transmission	65
Multifunctional photon conversion materials for enhancing silicon solar cells	65
A memristive-photoconductive transduction methodology for accurately nondestructive memory readout	64
Chaotic microlasers caused by internal mode interaction for random number generation	64
Biopsy-free in vivo virtual histology of skin using deep learning	64
Optical demonstration of quantum fault-tolerant threshold	63
Harnessing the capabilities of VCSELs: unlocking the potential for advanced integrated photonic devices and systems	63
Light People: Professor Guangcan Guo	63
Light People: Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu	63
Ultra-compact fiber tapering: plasmonics and structural bending as new combination of heat and pull	63
A wideband, high-resolution vector spectrum analyzer for integrated photonics	62
Surface-emitting lasers meet metasurfaces	62

Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer	60
Versatile optoelectronic memristor based on wide-bandgap Ga2O3 for artificial synapses and neuromorphic computing	59
Adaptive 3D descattering with a dynamic synthesis network	59
Vertically stacked skin-like active-matrix display with ultrahigh aperture ratio	59
A 15-user quantum secure direct communication network	59
Dispersion coding of ENZ media via multiple photonic dopants	58
Author Correction: Strong nonlinear optical processes with extraordinary polarization anisotropy in inversion-symmetry broken two-dimensional PdPSe	57
From light sensing to adaptive learning: hafnium diselenide reconfigurable memcapacitive devices in neuromorphic computing	57
Cavity-enhanced photoacoustic dual-comb spectroscopy	57
Quantum sensing with optically accessible spin defects in van der Waals layered materials	57
Quasicrystal metasurface for optical holography and diffraction	56
Multifaceted control of focal points along an arbitrary 3D curved trajectory	56
Rare-earth based materials: an effective toolbox for brain imaging, therapy, monitoring and neuromodulation	55
Tunable single emitter-cavity coupling strength through waveguide-assisted energy quantum transfer	55
A high-precision multi-dimensional microspectroscopic technique for morphological and properties analysis of cancer cell	55
Publisher Correction: Calibration-free speckle matrix imaging	55
A versatile interferometric technique for probing the thermophysical properties of complex fluids	54
High brightness terahertz quantum cascade laser with near-diffraction-limited Gaussian beam	54
Twisted microdomains in liquid crystals for polarization-insensitive phase modulation	54
Low cross-talk optical addressing of trapped-ion qubits using a novel integrated photonic chip	54
Recent advances in metasurface design and quantum optics applications with machine learning, physics-informed neural networks, and topology optimization methods	53
Lanthanide ion-doped upconversion nanoparticles for low-energy super-resolution applications	53
Single 5-nm quantum dot detection via microtoroid optical resonator photothermal microscopy	53
High-efficiency 90Sr radio-photovoltaic cells based on waveguide light concentration structure	53
Dual-function perovskite light-emitting/sensing devices for optical interactive display	53
A multifunctional optoelectronic device based on 2D material with wide bandgap	53
0.75 Gbit/s high-speed classical key distribution with mode-shift keying chaos synchronization of Fabry–Perot lasers	52
Parity-Time symmetry helps breaking a new limit	52
Rapid species identification of pathogenic bacteria from a minute quantity exploiting three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging and artificial neural network	52
Twisted phonon polaritons at deep subwavelength scale	52
Metalens and microtaper spectrometers on a fingertip	52
Observation of ~100% valley-coherent excitons in monolayer MoS2 through giant enhancement of valley coherence time	51
Dehydration of plant cells shoves nuclei rotation allowing for 3D phase-contrast tomography	51
Advancing optothermal manipulation: decoupling temperature and flow fields in quasi-isothermal microscale streaming	51
Unveiling bulk and surface radiation forces in a dielectric liquid	51
Nonvolatile electrical switching of optical and valleytronic properties of interlayer excitons	51
Revolutionizing solid-state single-photon sources with multifunctional metalenses	51
Large-scale combinatorial optical barcoding of cells with laser particles	51
Programmable electron-induced color router array	51
Absolute characterization of high numerical aperture microscope objectives utilizing a dipole scatterer	50
Light amplified oxidative stress in tumor microenvironment by carbonized hemin nanoparticles for boosting photodynamic anticancer therapy	50
Efficient photon-pair generation in layer-poled lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides	50
Direct demonstration of triplet excimer in purely organic room temperature phosphorescence through rational molecular design	50
Terabits without fibres	50
A monolithically sculpted van der Waals nano-opto-electro-mechanical coupler	50
4th generation synchrotron source boosts crystalline imaging at the nanoscale	49
Compact multi-foci metalens spectrometer	49
Experimental verification of generalized eigenstate thermalization hypothesis in an integrable system	49
Operando ZnO recrystallization for efficient quantum-dot light-emitting diodes	49
Giant mid-IR resonant coupling to molecular vibrations in sub-nm gaps of plasmonic multilayer metafilms	48
Precise mode control of laser-written waveguides for broadband, low-dispersion 3D integrated optics	48
Optical sorting: past, present and future	48
Single-step-fabricated disordered metasurfaces for enhanced light extraction from LEDs	48
Realization of quantum secure direct communication over 100 km fiber with time-bin and phase quantum states	48
Parameter estimation of the structured illumination pattern based on principal component analysis (PCA): PCA-SIM	48
Transport of intensity diffraction tomography with non-interferometric synthetic aperture for three-dimensional label-free microscopy	48
Light People: Prof. Eric Mazur speaks about ultrafast optics and education	47
Impinge Weyl advantages on light	47
Towards high-power mid-IR light source tunable from 3.8 to 4.5 µm by HBr-filled hollow-core silica fibres	47
Control of light emission of quantum emitters coupled to silicon nanoantenna using cylindrical vector beams	47
Ultra-simplified diffraction-based computational spectrometer	47
Versatile chip-based nanoscopy becomes ready for histopathology assessment	47
Fluorescence polarization modulation super-resolution imaging provides refined dynamics orientation processes in biological samples	46
Linear and nonlinear record high optical birefringence in anisotropic van der Waals crystals	46
Planarized THz quantum cascade lasers for broadband coherent photonics	46
Quantum CZ gates on a single gradient metasurface	46
Multi-millijoule terahertz emission from laser-wakefield-accelerated electrons	46
Non-contact and nanometer-scale measurement of PN junction depth buried in Si wafers using terahertz emission spectroscopy	46
First Chinese ultraviolet–visible hyperspectral satellite instrument implicating global air quality during the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020	45
Deep learning acceleration of multiscale superresolution localization photoacoustic imaging	45
Holo-imprinting polarization optics with a reflective liquid crystal hologram template	45
Intense ultraviolet–visible–infrared full-spectrum laser	45
Unveiling the lamellar structure of the human cornea over its full thickness using polarization-resolved SHG microscopy	45
Finite barrier bound state	45
Omnidirectional color wavelength tuning of stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers	45
Dielectric Mie voids: confining light in air	45
Hybrid magnetic resonance and optoacoustic tomography (MROT) for preclinical neuroimaging	45
Observation of transition from superfluorescence to polariton condensation in CsPbBr3 quantum dots film	45
Dynamical control of nanoscale light-matter interactions in low-dimensional quantum materials	44
Large-scale coherent Ising machine based on optoelectronic parametric oscillator	44
Bayesian optimization with Gaussian-process-based active machine learning for improvement of geometric accuracy in projection multi-photon 3D printing	44
Multi-dimensional band structure spectroscopy in the synthetic frequency dimension	44
A multiband NIR upconversion core-shell design for enhanced light harvesting of silicon solar cells	44
Self-frequency-conversion nanowire lasers	44
Controlled on-chip fabrication of large-scale perovskite single crystal arrays for high-performance laser and photodetector integration	44
From genotype to phenotype: decoding mutations in blasts by holo-tomographic flow cytometry	44
Room-temperature waveguide-integrated photodetector using bolometric effect for mid-infrared spectroscopy applications	44
A compact multi-pixel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector array supporting gigabit space-to-ground communications	43
Integrated sensing and communication in an optical fibre	43
Van der Waals two-color infrared photodetector	43
Rising complexity of the OAM beam structure as a way to a higher data capacity	43
Arbitrarily polarized bound states in the continuum with twisted photonic crystal slabs	43
All-optical generation of static electric field in a single metal-semiconductor nanoantenna	43
Quantitative phase imaging through an ultra-thin lensless fiber endoscope	42
Expanding chiral metamaterials for retrieving fingerprints via vibrational circular dichroism	42