Liangcai Cao

7.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
280 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Liangcai Cao is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Media Technology and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Liangcai Cao has authored 280 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 192 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 148 papers in Media Technology and 78 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Liangcai Cao's work include Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies (124 papers), Digital Holography and Microscopy (117 papers) and Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics (72 papers). Liangcai Cao is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies (124 papers), Digital Holography and Microscopy (117 papers) and Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics (72 papers). Liangcai Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Liangcai Cao's co-authors include Guofan Jin, Hao Zhang, Zehao He, Jiachen Wu, Xiaomeng Sui, Yunhui Gao, Qiang Jiang, Qingsheng He, Zhengzhong Huang and Ke‐Xuan Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Liangcai Cao

251 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Accurate calculation of computer-generated holograms using angular-spectrum layer-oriented method

2015 274 citations Liangcai Cao, Hao Zhang et al. Optics Express profile →
High-speed computer-generated holography using an autoencoder-based deep neural network

2021 161 citations Jiachen Wu, Ke‐Xuan Liu et al. Optics Letters profile →
Monocular metasurface camera for passive single-shot 4D imaging

2023 126 citations Feng Zhao, Chunqi Jin et al. Nature Communications profile →
4K-DMDNet: diffraction model-driven network for 4K computer-generated holography

2023 92 citations Ke‐Xuan Liu, Jiachen Wu et al. profile →
Quantitative phase imaging based on holography: trends and new perspectives

2024 77 citations Liangcai Cao et al. Light Science & Applications profile →
Single-shot deterministic complex amplitude imaging with a single-layer metalens

2024 53 citations Shuai Wang, Yunhui Gao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liangcai Cao China	39	3.0k	2.5k	1.5k	938	885	280	5.3k
Ting‐Chung Poon United States	38	3.6k 1.2×	2.8k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	775 0.8×	492 0.6×	227	4.4k
Tomoyoshi Shimobaba Japan	36	3.0k 1.0×	3.4k 1.3×	1.5k 1.0×	379 0.4×	301 0.3×	238	4.4k
Phillip Sutton Australia	3	1.8k 0.6×	818 0.3×	801 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	853 1.0×	6	3.5k
Guofan Jin China	42	4.0k 1.3×	2.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	3.1k 3.3×	1.8k 2.1×	297	8.4k
Laura Waller United States	41	3.3k 1.1×	1.1k 0.4×	1.7k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	448 0.5×	188	5.6k
Manuel Martínez‐Corral Spain	33	2.5k 0.8×	2.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	336 0.4×	184	4.0k
Frank Wyrowski Germany	26	1.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	581 0.4×	927 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	174	3.1k
George Barbastathis United States	43	4.0k 1.3×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	2.4k 2.5×	1.9k 2.1×	307	7.6k
Joseph Rosen Israel	37	3.9k 1.3×	2.8k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	289 0.3×	229	5.1k
Toyohiko Yatagai Japan	40	2.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	2.5k 2.7×	925 1.0×	310	6.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liangcai Cao

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cao, Liangcai, et al.. (2025). Steady optical vortex beam enables extended depth of focus and robust data transmission in turbulence. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 188. 108889–108889. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Xinyu, Chang Wang, Yang Zhang, et al.. (2025). DMD-based reflective compressive spectral imaging system coupled with transformer-based reconstruction method. Optics Letters. 50(7). 2362–2362.

Pan, An, et al.. (2025). High‐Fidelity Computational Microscopy via Feature‐Domain Phase Retrieval. Advanced Science. 12(21). e2413975–e2413975. 6 indexed citations

Cao, Liangcai, et al.. (2025). High uniformity flattop beam shape correction with complex amplitude aberration of the incidence. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 195. 109275–109275.

Wang, Qinhua, Jianshe Ma, Liangcai Cao, & Ping Su. (2024). High-resolution portable lens-free on-chip microscopy with RGB LED via pinhole array. Chinese Optics Letters. 22(2). 21101–21101. 2 indexed citations

Jin, Guofan, et al.. (2024). Intelligent Photonics: A Disruptive Technology to Shape the Present and Redefine the Future. Engineering. 46. 186–213. 7 indexed citations

Sui, Xiaomeng, Zehao He, Daping Chu, & Liangcai Cao. (2024). Non-convex optimization for inverse problem solving in computer-generated holography. Light Science & Applications. 13(1). 158–158. 32 indexed citations

Zhang, Qiang, Zehao He, Zhenwei Xie, et al.. (2023). Diffractive optical elements 75 years on: from micro-optics to metasurfaces. 2(4). R09–R09. 45 indexed citations

Wu, Jiachen, et al.. (2023). A four-aperture super-resolution camera based on adaptive regularization parameter tuning. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 165. 107562–107562. 5 indexed citations

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Xing, Shujun, et al.. (2023). Medical volume data real-time optical reconstruction on light field display with a directional diffuser. Optik. 313. 171166–171166. 2 indexed citations

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Cao, Liangcai & Yunhui Gao. (2023). Pixel super-resolution phase retrieval algorithms for digital holography. 269. 13–13. 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Feng, et al.. (2023). Monocular metasurface camera for passive single-shot 4D imaging. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1035–1035. 126 indexed citations breakdown →

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He, Zehao, et al.. (2023). Coded aperture-based compressive data page for optical data storage. Optics Letters. 48(16). 4304–4304. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Ni, Liangcai Cao, Ting‐Chung Poon, Byoungho Lee, & Edmund Y. Lam. (2023). Differentiable Imaging: A New Tool for Computational Optical Imaging. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(6). 18 indexed citations

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He, Zehao, et al.. (2023). Analysis of reconstruction quality for computer-generated holograms using a model free of circular-convolution error. Optics Express. 31(12). 19021–19021. 4 indexed citations

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He, Zehao, et al.. (2022). Angular-spectrum algorithm for holographic 3D display based on 2D-to-3D approach. 23–23. 1 indexed citations

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Su, Ping, et al.. (2021). Staggered tomography for spatially continuous objects in compressive holography. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(26). 265401–265401. 1 indexed citations

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Banerjee, Partha P., et al.. (2019). Taking correlation from 2D to 3D: optical methods and performance evaluation. 10–10. 1 indexed citations

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Zhi, Xiao, Jin Cui, Zhi‐Chun Gu, et al.. (2016). Orthopedics research output from China, USA, UK, Japan, Germany and France: A 10-year survey of the literature. Orthopaedics & Traumatology Surgery & Research. 102(7). 939–945. 22 indexed citations

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Yang, Qiang, Liangcai Cao, Hua Zhang, Hao Zhang, & Guofan Jin. (2015). Method of lateral image reconstruction in structured illumination microscopy with super resolution. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences. 9(3). 1630002–1630002. 8 indexed citations

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