Kan Wu

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
115 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Kan Wu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Kan Wu has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 90 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 11 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Kan Wu's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (87 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (47 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (25 papers). Kan Wu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (87 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (47 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (25 papers). Kan Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United Kingdom. Kan Wu's co-authors include Jianping Chen, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jun Wang, Bohua Chen, Hao Wang, Xing Li, Perry Ping Shum, Linjie Zhou, Chaoshi Guo and Xianyi Cao and has published in prestigious journals such as ACS Nano, Scientific Reports and Nanoscale.

In The Last Decade

Kan Wu

107 papers receiving 2.9k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Q-switched fiber laser based on transition metal dichalcogenides MoS_2, MoSe_2, WS_2, and WSe_2

2015 441 citations Bohua Chen, Xiaoyan Zhang et al. Optics Express profile →
WS_2 as a saturable absorber for ultrafast photonic applications of mode-locked and Q-switched lasers

2015 341 citations Kan Wu, Xiaoyan Zhang et al. Optics Express profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kan Wu China	30	2.6k	2.5k	477	321	135	115	3.1k
Sze Yun Set Japan	28	2.8k 1.1×	3.0k 1.2×	546 1.1×	292 0.9×	86 0.6×	174	3.5k
Paul Davids United States	23	1.1k 0.4×	747 0.3×	325 0.7×	336 1.0×	93 0.7×	61	1.6k
Naokatsu Yamamoto Japan	26	2.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	368 0.8×	394 1.2×	38 0.3×	413	2.9k
Sunil A. Bhave United States	26	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	607 1.3×	1.1k 3.3×	35 0.3×	149	2.5k
Jin‐Wei Shi Taiwan	28	2.6k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	162 0.3×	232 0.7×	198 1.5×	252	2.9k
Marco Pala France	26	1.2k 0.5×	960 0.4×	465 1.0×	391 1.2×	23 0.2×	112	1.9k
Amirhassan Shams‐Ansari United States	22	3.5k 1.4×	3.2k 1.3×	298 0.6×	346 1.1×	21 0.2×	63	4.1k
Kenji Ishizaki Japan	21	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	153 0.3×	302 0.9×	23 0.2×	95	1.6k
P. Absil Belgium	38	5.6k 2.2×	3.1k 1.2×	404 0.8×	729 2.3×	140 1.0×	209	5.9k
Weiqiang Xie China	18	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	223 0.5×	180 0.6×	53 0.4×	53	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kan Wu

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hassan, Syed Tauseef, et al.. (2025). Empowering sustainable development: green growth, digital economy, and gender equality in education to address energy poverty. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology. 33(2). 193–209.

Chen, Jianping, et al.. (2025). Ultra‐Flat Broadband Low‐Noise Frequency Comb in a Fiber Fabry‐Perot Resonator. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(9). 1 indexed citations

Li, Xinhang, Ruiyang Xu, Chuxin Liu, et al.. (2024). Self-injection-locking FMCW laser source on the lithium niobate platform. STh1O.3–STh1O.3. 1 indexed citations

Li, Chao, Xianyi Cao, Kan Wu, Xinwan Li, & Jianping Chen. (2019). A Switch-based Integrated 2D Beam-steering device for Lidar Application. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1–2. 4 indexed citations

Wu, Kan, et al.. (2019). A pulsewidth measurement technology based on carbon-nanotube saturable absorber. Optics Express. 27(4). 4188–4188. 11 indexed citations

Qiu, Ciyuan, Yuxing Yang, Chao Li, et al.. (2017). All-optical control of light on a graphene-on-silicon nitride chip using thermo-optic effect. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 17046–17046. 67 indexed citations

Wang, Hao, Bohua Chen, Xiaoxue Xu, et al.. (2017). Ethanol catalytic optical driven deposition for 1D and 2D materials with ultra-low power threshold of 0 dBm. Optics Communications. 406. 18–23. 3 indexed citations

Hu, Wenchao, Kan Wu, Perry Ping Shum, Nikolay I. Zheludev, & Cesare Soci. (2016). All-Optical Implementation of the Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 26283–26283. 14 indexed citations

Li, Xiaohui, Kan Wu, Zhipei Sun, et al.. (2016). Single-wall carbon nanotubes and graphene oxide-based saturable absorbers for low phase noise mode-locked fiber lasers. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 25266–25266. 86 indexed citations

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Wu, Kan, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jun Wang, Xing Li, & Jianping Chen. (2015). Two-dimensional Nanomaterial Tungsten Disulfide (WS2) As Saturable Absorber for Mode-locked Laser Near 1550 nm. 7. JW2A.66–JW2A.66. 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Kan, Xiaohui Li, Yonggang Wang, et al.. (2015). Towards low timing phase noise operation in fiber lasers mode locked by graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes at 15 µm. Optics Express. 23(1). 501–501. 28 indexed citations

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Liu, Yan, Kan Wu, Seongwoo Yoo, et al.. (2013). Regenerative Er-doped Fiber Amplifier System for High-repetition-rate Optical Pulses. Journal of the Optical Society of Korea. 17(5). 357–361. 8 indexed citations

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Wu, Kan, Perry Ping Shum, Sheel Aditya, et al.. (2012). Noise conversion from pump to the passively mode-locked fiber lasers at 15 μm. Optics Letters. 37(11). 1901–1901. 14 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Chunmei, et al.. (2012). Cavity-length optimization for high energy pulse generation in a long cavity passively mode-locked all-fiber ring laser. Applied Optics. 51(17). 3726–3726. 22 indexed citations

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Wu, Kan, Chunmei Ouyang, Jia Haur Wong, Sheel Aditya, & Perry Ping Shum. (2011). Frequency Response of the Noise Conversion From Relative Intensity Noise to Phase Noise in the Photodetection of an Optical Pulse Train. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 23(8). 468–470. 6 indexed citations

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Wu, Kan, et al.. (2011). Performance study and assessment of phase noise suppression by incoherent addition in a mode-locked fiber laser system. Optics Communications. 285(2). 153–157. 1 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Chunmei, Perry Ping Shum, Kan Wu, et al.. (2011). Bidirectional passively mode-locked soliton fiber laser with a four-port circulator. Optics Letters. 36(11). 2089–2089. 55 indexed citations

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Wu, Kan, Jia Haur Wong, Perry Ping Shum, et al.. (2010). Timing-jitter reduction of passively mode-locked fiber laser with a carbon nanotube saturable absorber by optimization of cavity loss. Optics Letters. 35(7). 1085–1085. 19 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Chunmei, Perry Ping Shum, Honghai Wang, et al.. (2010). Observation of timing jitter reduction induced by spectral filtering in a fiber laser mode locked with a carbon nanotube-based saturable absorber. Optics Letters. 35(14). 2320–2320. 30 indexed citations

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Wong, Jia Haur, Kan Wu, Huanhuan Liu, et al.. (2010). Vector solitons in a laser passively mode-locked by single-wall carbon nanotubes. Optics Communications. 284(7). 2007–2011. 33 indexed citations

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