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Optical and Acousto-Optic Technologies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Abudukadi Tudi
Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry
2
Victoria Hwang
Harvard University
3
Qian-Ting Xu
Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter
4
Quanxin Yang
Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University
5
Lingwei Cao
Hebei University
6
Priyanka Sehrawat
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
7
Hyeon Seok Rou
Constructor University
8
Haoyang He
University of Science and Technology of China
9
Yannick Schrödel
Helmholtz Institute Jena
10
Susanne Fürst
Technische Universität Berlin

Rising Stars Papers

1
Functional Modules Map of Unexplored Chemical Space: Guiding the Discovery of Giant Birefringent Materials
Advanced Functional Materials|2024
74 cit.
2
A novel approach towards robust construction of physical colors on lithium niobate crystal
Opto-Electronic Advances|2025
68 cit.
3
From Orthogonal Time–Frequency Space to Affine Frequency-Division Multiplexing: A comparative study of next-generation waveforms for integrated sensing and communications in doubly dispersive channels
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine|2024
61 cit.
4
Meta‐Attention Network Based Spectral Reconstruction with Snapshot Near‐Infrared Metasurface
Advanced Materials|2024
55 cit.
5
A Highly Optical Anisotropic Hybrid Metal Halide for Modulation and Generation of Polarized Light
Advanced Functional Materials|2024
38 cit.
6
Side Chain Crosslinked Anion Exchange Membrane for Acid Concentration by Electrodialysis
Chem & Bio Engineering|2024
19 cit.
7
Spectro-polarimetric detection enabled by multidimensional metasurface with quasi-bound states in the continuum
Opto-Electronic Advances|2025
19 cit.
8
Integrated Sensing and Communications for 3D Object Imaging via Bilinear Inference
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications|2024
12 cit.
9
AFDM Chirp-Permutation-Index Modulation with Quantum-Accelerated Codebook Design
Unknown Journal|2024
12 cit.
10
Functional Unit Design of Deep‐UV NLO Crystals With Short Phase‐Matching and Large SHG Response
Advanced Materials|2026
9 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Xiaoying Shang
Qingdao University
2
David A. Hensley
University of the Virgin Islands
3
Xiangling Tian
South China University of Technology
4
Zhaohui Li
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)
5
C. Depiesse
Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
6
Alejandro Gómez-San-Juan
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
7
Sayouri Salaheddine
Mahindra Group (India)
8
Ekaterina I. Kostyleva
Lomonosov Moscow State University
9
Yuri Kalinnikov
American Foundation for Addiction Research
10
Yuri S. Dobrolenskiy
Space Research Institute

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Highly efficient acousto-optic modulation using nonsuspended thin-film lithium niobate-chalcogenide hybrid waveguides
Light Science & Applications|2022
91 cit.
2
Parallel interrogation of the chalcogenide-based micro-ring sensor array for photoacoustic tomography
Nature Communications|2023
79 cit.
3
High-speed single-exposure time-reversed ultrasonically encoded optical focusing against dynamic scattering
Science Advances|2022
35 cit.
4
Amplified Spontaneous Emission from Perovskite Quantum Dots Inside a Transparent Glass
Advanced Optical Materials|2022
28 cit.
5
Superior scintillation property of Tb3+-doped sodium silicate glass
Ceramics International|2022
26 cit.
6
Probabilistic Phase Shaping Guided Wavefront Control of Complex Media with Information‐Limited Intensity Measurements
Laser & Photonics Review|2023
13 cit.
7
Enhanced Charge Separation and Transfer by BiVO<sub>4</sub> Heterojunction and N-Doped for TiO<sub>2</sub> Nanotubes during Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
ACS Applied Energy Materials|2023
13 cit.
8
Photoelectrochemical enhancement for TiO2-based photoanodes: In-situ electrochemical analysis, modification strategies and mechanism studies
Electrochimica Acta|2024
12 cit.
9
Broadband Nonlinear Optical Absorption Induced by Bandgap Renormalization in CVD-Grown Monolayer MoSe<sub>2</sub>
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces|2022
9 cit.
10
Two-stage matrix-assisted glare suppression at a large scale
Photonics Research|2022
9 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Michael T. Hendry
University of Alberta
2
Thomas K. Gaylord
Georgia Institute of Technology
3
Sylvain Gigan
Collège de France
4
G. Maret
University of Konstanz
5
S. W. Koch
Philipps University of Marburg
6
R Vlokh
Lviv University
7
Haldun M. Özaktaş
Bilkent University
8
Michael W. Kudenov
North Carolina State University
9
Stefan Lindén
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
10
W. E. Moerner
Stanford University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
<i>Optical Waves in Layered Media</i>
Physics Today|1990
2.3k cit.
2
Rigorous coupled-wave analysis of planar-grating diffraction
Journal of the Optical Society of America|1981
2.2k cit.
3
Large single-molecule fluorescence enhancements produced by a bowtie nanoantenna
Nature Photonics|2009
2k cit.
4
Measuring the Transmission Matrix in Optics: An Approach to the Study and Control of Light Propagation in Disordered Media
Physical Review Letters|2010
1.8k cit.
5
Lithium niobate: Summary of physical properties and crystal structure
Applied Physics A|1985
1.8k cit.
6
Magnetic Response of Metamaterials at 100 Terahertz
Science|2004
1.5k cit.
7
On/off blinking and switching behaviour of single molecules of green fluorescent protein
Nature|1997
1.3k cit.
8
Weak Localization and Coherent Backscattering of Photons in Disordered Media
Physical Review Letters|1985
1.3k cit.
9
Optical detection and spectroscopy of single molecules in a solid
Physical Review Letters|1989
1.3k cit.
10
<i>Physics of Optoelectronic Devices</i>
Physics Today|1996
1.2k cit.

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