Nan Chi

13.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
652 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Nan Chi is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Nan Chi has authored 652 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 625 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 84 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 44 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Nan Chi's work include Optical Network Technologies (433 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (358 papers) and Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (287 papers). Nan Chi is often cited by papers focused on Optical Network Technologies (433 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (358 papers) and Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (287 papers). Nan Chi collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Denmark. Nan Chi's co-authors include Junwen Zhang, Yiguang Wang, Jianyang Shi, Jianjun Yu, Xinying Li, Fangchen Hu, Yuanquan Wang, Yingjun Zhou, Li Tao and Ze Dong and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Nan Chi

586 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Visible Light Communication in 6G: Advances, Challenges, and Prospects

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Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nan Chi	9.1k	1.2k	743	436	433	652	9.6k
Dominic O’Brien	7.7k 0.8×	494 0.4×	323 0.4×	248 0.6×	543 1.3×	223	8.4k
Chi‐Wai Chow	9.7k 1.1×	4.0k 3.3×	710 1.0×	1.0k 2.4×	1.3k 3.0×	650	11.9k
Sujan Rajbhandari	5.2k 0.6×	369 0.3×	385 0.5×	120 0.3×	408 0.9×	196	5.6k
Zhengyuan Xu	7.2k 0.8×	306 0.3×	1.1k 1.5×	282 0.6×	192 0.4×	436	8.0k
Chien-Hung Yeh	5.1k 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	239 0.3×	97 0.2×	181 0.4×	395	5.4k
Chen Gong	2.2k 0.2×	434 0.4×	261 0.4×	215 0.5×	133 0.3×	286	3.3k
Zabih Ghassemlooy	12.6k 1.4×	1.0k 0.9×	918 1.2×	377 0.9×	51 0.1×	811	13.3k
Richard V. Penty	5.4k 0.6×	2.1k 1.7×	60 0.1×	702 1.6×	257 0.6×	502	6.3k
Grahame Faulkner	3.7k 0.4×	203 0.2×	161 0.2×	98 0.2×	110 0.3×	111	4.0k
Daniel D. Stancil	3.6k 0.4×	1.3k 1.1×	227 0.3×	142 0.3×	231 0.5×	219	4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nan Chi

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Li, Xiaoyin, Yinghui Guo, Mingbo Pu, et al.. (2025). Sub‐Diffraction Limited Single‐Photon LiDAR with Optimized Confocal Super‐Oscillatory Illumination. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(15). 3 indexed citations

Chen, Hui, Xianghua Zhang, Honglin Ji, et al.. (2025). Demonstration of high-capacity WDM long-haul transmission based on a long-span nested antiresonant nodeless fiber. Chinese Optics Letters. 23(9). 90601–90601.

Zhou, Yingjun, Zengyi Xu, Yun‐Feng Huang, et al.. (2025). Beyond 600 Gbps optical interconnect utilizing wavelength division multiplexed visible light laser communication [Invited]. Chinese Optics Letters. 23(5). 50002–50002. 14 indexed citations

Dong, Boyu, et al.. (2025). Demonstration of 123.72-Gbps D-band fiber–THz–fiber system based on full photonic conversion technology with broadband optoelectronic devices. Chinese Optics Letters. 23(5). 53901–53901. 1 indexed citations

Feng, Zhe Chuan, et al.. (2025). 73.31-Gbps 5-m underwater visible light communication system utilizing a 5-λ laser transmitter and a polarization-diverse dual-aperture receiver. Chinese Optics Letters. 23(12). 120603–120603.

Wang, Yue, Zengxin Li, Meixin Liu, et al.. (2024). Tutorial on laser-based visible light communications [Invited]. Chinese Optics Letters. 22(9). 92502–92502. 9 indexed citations

Xing, Sizhe, Junwen Zhang, Guoqiang Li, et al.. (2024). Low-cost, large-coverage, and high-flexibility coherent PON for next-generation access networks: advances, challenges, and prospects [Invited]. Chinese Optics Letters. 22(4). 40604–40604. 10 indexed citations

Jia, Junlian, Boyu Dong, Tao Li, et al.. (2024). Demonstration of radar-aided flexible communication in a photonics-based W-band distributed integrated sensing and communication system for 6G. Chinese Optics Letters. 22(4). 43901–43901. 8 indexed citations

Xu, Zengyi, Zhibiao Hao, Yi Luo, et al.. (2024). High-Speed Micro-LEDs Based on Nano-Engineered InGaN Active Region Towards Chip-to-Chip Interconnections. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 42(24). 8760–8770. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Guoqiang, Zhongya Li, Sizhe Xing, et al.. (2024). Burst-Mode Signal Reception for 200 G Coherent Time and Frequency Division Multiplexing Passive Optical Network. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 43(2). 429–438. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Ziwei, Wei Zhou, Shuqi Zhang, et al.. (2024). Self-supervised dynamic learning for long-term high-fidelity image transmission through unstabilized diffusive media. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1498–1498. 20 indexed citations

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Shi, Jianyang, Qinmiao Chen, Hui Chen, et al.. (2024). A metasurface-based full-color circular auto-focusing Airy beam transmitter for stable high-speed underwater wireless optical communications. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2944–2944. 63 indexed citations

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Li, Guoqiang, Sizhe Xing, Zhongya Li, et al.. (2024). Beyond 100G three-dimensional flexible coherent PON with time, frequency, and power resource-allocation capabilities. Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. 16(5). 516–516. 10 indexed citations

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Yuan, Wei, Yao Li, Haoyu Zhang, et al.. (2024). Performance comparison of various end-to-end learning technologies with a bandwidth-limited OWC system. Optics Express. 32(19). 33401–33401. 2 indexed citations

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Xu, Zengyi, Wenqing Niu, Yu Liu, et al.. (2023). 31.38 Gb/s GaN-based LED array visible light communication system enhanced with V-pit and sidewall quantum well structure. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(5). 230005–230005. 23 indexed citations

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Shi, Jianyang, et al.. (2022). Geometrically Shaped 32QAM and Modified Binary Switching Coding Method in Underwater Visible Light Communication. Chinese Journal of Electronics. 31(6). 1106–1111. 10 indexed citations

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Chi, Nan, et al.. (2022). Research on Modulation Format Recognition Algorithm based on Machine Learning. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

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Hu, Fangchen, Shanshan Wang, Jianyang Shi, et al.. (2022). High-Speed GaN-Based Superluminescent Diode for 4.57 Gbps Visible Light Communication. Crystals. 12(2). 191–191. 13 indexed citations

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Qian, Zeyuan, Fangchen Hu, Pengjiang Qiu, et al.. (2022). Size-Dependent UV-C Communication Performance of AlGaN Micro-LEDs and LEDs. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 40(22). 7289–7296. 14 indexed citations

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Hu, Fangchen, Yuyi Zhang, Guoqiang Li, et al.. (2021). High-speed visible light communication systems based on Si-substrate LEDs with multiple superlattice interlayers. PhotoniX. 2(1). 33 indexed citations

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