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Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Yuqiang Ding
University of Central Florida
2
Bo Xiong
State Key Laboratory of Transducer Technology
3
Xiuqin Zhan
Chinese Academy of Sciences
4
Zhengzhong Huang
Tsinghua University
5
YoonSeok Baek
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
6
Zhenyi Luo
University of Central Florida
7
En‐Lin Hsiang
University of Central Florida
8
Fei Wang
University of Science and Technology of China
9
Kun Yin
Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
10
Teresa Hirzle
Universität Ulm

Rising Stars Papers

1
Quantitative phase imaging based on holography: trends and new perspectives
Light Science & Applications|2024
236 cit.
2
Breaking the in-coupling efficiency limit in waveguide-based AR displays with polarization volume gratings
Light Science & Applications|2024
72 cit.
3
Ultracompact and high-efficiency liquid-crystal-on-silicon light engines for augmented reality glasses
Opto-Electronic Advances|2024
70 cit.
4
High-efficiency RGB achromatic liquid crystal diffractive optical elements
Opto-Electronic Advances|2025
24 cit.
5
Breaking the optical efficiency limit of virtual reality with a nonreciprocal polarization rotator
Opto-Electronic Advances|2024
21 cit.
6
Polarization conversion effect in cholesteric liquid crystal-based polarization volume gratings
Optics Express|2024
14 cit.
7
Compact and High-Efficiency Liquid-Crystal-on-Silicon for Augmented Reality Displays
Photonics|2024
10 cit.
8
Ghost image analysis for pancake virtual reality systems
Optics Express|2024
9 cit.
9
High‐efficiency and ultracompact pancake optics for virtual reality
Journal of the Society for Information Display|2024
9 cit.
10
Broadband and wide-view cholesteric liquid crystal polarization selective reflectors
Optics Express|2025
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Mungyeong Choe
Virginia Tech
2
Felix Heide
Stanford University
3
Yihao Xu
Henan Polytechnic University
4
Yu Liu
Northeastern University
5
Haowen Liang
Sun Yat-sen University
6
Zhongyang Li
Farmland Irrigation Research Institute
7
Xiaomeng Sui
University of Cambridge
8
Zhaohui Li
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)
9
Angika Bulbul
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
10
Di Wang
Beihang University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Color liquid crystal grating based color holographic 3D display system with large viewing angle
Light Science & Applications|2024
135 cit.
2
Augmented Reality Enabled by On‐Chip Meta‐Holography Multiplexing
Laser & Photonics Review|2022
115 cit.
3
Liquid lens based holographic camera for real 3D scene hologram acquisition using end-to-end physical model-driven network
Light Science & Applications|2024
106 cit.
4
Decimeter-depth and polarization addressable color 3D meta-holography
Nature Communications|2024
99 cit.
5
Highly efficient acousto-optic modulation using nonsuspended thin-film lithium niobate-chalcogenide hybrid waveguides
Light Science & Applications|2022
91 cit.
6
RGB Achromatic Metalens Doublet for Digital Imaging
Nano Letters|2022
91 cit.
7
Diffusion-SDF: Conditional Generative Modeling of Signed Distance Functions
Unknown Journal|2023
89 cit.
8
Instance Segmentation in the Dark
International Journal of Computer Vision|2023
86 cit.
9
Parallel interrogation of the chalcogenide-based micro-ring sensor array for photoacoustic tomography
Nature Communications|2023
79 cit.
10
Non-convex optimization for inverse problem solving in computer-generated holography
Light Science & Applications|2024
72 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Bahram Javidi
University of Connecticut
2
Byoungho Lee
Seoul National University
3
Shin‐Tson Wu
University of Central Florida
4
Tomoyoshi Ito
Chiba University
5
Martin S. Banks
University of California, Berkeley
6
Demetri Psaltis
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
7
Yongtian Wang
Beijing Institute of Technology
8
Miles J. Padgett
University of Glasgow
9
Gordon Wetzstein
Stanford University
10
Guofan Jin
Jiangsu University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statistically optimal fashion
Nature|2002
4.9k cit.
2
Orbital angular momentum: origins, behavior and applications
Advances in Optics and Photonics|2011
3.2k cit.
3
Optical image encryption based on input plane and Fourier plane random encoding
Optics Letters|1995
2.6k cit.
4
Tweezers with a twist
Nature Photonics|2011
2.2k cit.
5
Review of the present status of optical fiber sensors
Optical Fiber Technology|2003
1.7k cit.
6
Vergence–accommodation conflicts hinder visual performance and cause visual fatigue
Journal of Vision|2008
1.6k cit.
7
Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner
Optics Letters|1997
1.1k cit.
8
Efficient Sorting of Orbital Angular Momentum States of Light
Physical Review Letters|2010
1.1k cit.
9
Detection of a Spinning Object Using Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum
Science|2013
1.1k cit.
10
Efficient Geometry-aware 3D Generative Adversarial Networks
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
1k cit.

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