Qiwen Zhan

15.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
396 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Qiwen Zhan is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Qiwen Zhan has authored 396 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 308 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 221 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 119 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Qiwen Zhan's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (249 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (106 papers) and Near-Field Optical Microscopy (83 papers). Qiwen Zhan is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (249 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (106 papers) and Near-Field Optical Microscopy (83 papers). Qiwen Zhan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Qiwen Zhan's co-authors include Weibin Chen, Chenhao Wan, James R. Leger, Jian Chen, Andy Chong, Robert L. Nelson, Guanghao Rui, Wen Cheng, Don C. Abeysinghe and Joseph W. Haus and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Qiwen Zhan

357 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cylindrical vector beams: from mathematical concepts to applications

2009 2.2k citations Qiwen Zhan Advances in Optics and Photonics profile →
Trapping metallic Rayleigh particles with radial polarization

2004 681 citations Qiwen Zhan profile →
Focus shaping using cylindrical vector beams

2002 502 citations Qiwen Zhan et al. profile →
Generation of spatiotemporal optical vortices with controllable transverse orbital angular momentum

2020 357 citations Andy Chong, Chenhao Wan et al. Nature Photonics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Qiwen Zhan China	46	9.6k	6.4k	3.0k	2.6k	630	396	11.4k
Changjun Min China	35	4.9k 0.5×	4.1k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	351 0.6×	197	6.7k
Jianlin Zhao China	58	8.8k 0.9×	3.9k 0.6×	5.8k 1.9×	2.5k 0.9×	201 0.3×	562	13.1k
Andrew Forbes South Africa	58	10.3k 1.1×	4.4k 0.7×	3.6k 1.2×	1.8k 0.7×	191 0.3×	422	12.5k
Jari Turunen Finland	46	6.1k 0.6×	4.2k 0.7×	3.0k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	1.9k 3.0×	378	8.7k
Yongxiong Ren United States	36	11.5k 1.2×	4.8k 0.8×	6.4k 2.1×	2.6k 1.0×	108 0.2×	150	12.9k
Lorenzo Marrucci Italy	52	9.3k 1.0×	3.7k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	3.2k 1.2×	182 0.3×	195	11.1k
Martin P. J. Lavery United Kingdom	35	7.9k 0.8×	3.6k 0.6×	3.6k 1.2×	1.5k 0.6×	91 0.1×	124	8.9k
Erez Hasman Israel	43	6.8k 0.7×	4.8k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	5.9k 2.2×	710 1.1×	147	10.3k
Ebrahim Karimi Canada	47	6.6k 0.7×	2.6k 0.4×	1.5k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	181 0.3×	187	7.9k
Victor V. Kotlyar Russia	41	5.1k 0.5×	3.3k 0.5×	867 0.3×	760 0.3×	428 0.7×	449	5.7k

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Yuan, Jing, Tong Zhou, Yujuan Xie, et al.. (2025). An intelligent ratiometric fluorescence platform assisted by machine learning for sensitive detection of Cr(VI). Microchemical Journal. 220. 116645–116645.

Liu, Xin, Qian Cao, Jinsong Liu, et al.. (2025). Dynamics of photonic toroidal vortices mediated by orbital angular momenta. Science Advances. 11(39). eadz0843–eadz0843. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Zhuoyi, Xingyuan Lu, Xingyuan Lu, et al.. (2025). Few-Mode Superposition for High-Efficiency Generation of Tailored Partially Coherent Light. ACS Photonics. 12(4). 2160–2168. 1 indexed citations

Zhong, Jinzhan, et al.. (2025). Topological decomposition of hierarchical skyrmion lattices. Communications Physics. 8(1). 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaoqiang, Ruimin Li, Yunqing Jiang, et al.. (2025). Dual-band achromatic wavefront control of spintronic terahertz via cascaded metasurfaces. Optics Letters. 50(7). 2175–2175.

Li, Min, et al.. (2024). Fabrication of high aspect ratio two-dimensional gratings inside tellurite glass using femtosecond laser. Optics & Laser Technology. 183. 112243–112243. 1 indexed citations

Lu, Xingyuan, Tong Liu, Jianbo Gao, et al.. (2024). Robust detection of a rotational Doppler shift with randomly fluctuated light. Optics Letters. 49(15). 4198–4198. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Jian, et al.. (2024). Orbit–Orbit Interaction in Spatiotemporal Optical Vortex. Engineering. 45. 44–51. 2 indexed citations

Gu, Bing, et al.. (2024). Strong coupling induced ultrasensitive chiral detection by metal-dielectric hybrid metasurface. Optics & Laser Technology. 181. 111995–111995. 7 indexed citations

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Gao, Jianbo, Xingyuan Lu, Zhuoyi Wang, et al.. (2024). Rotational Doppler effect using ultra-dense vector perfect vortex beams. Photonics Research. 13(2). 468–468. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Jian, Xi Shen, Qiwen Zhan, & Cheng‐Wei Qiu. (2024). Gouy Phase Induced Optical Skyrmion Transformation in Diffraction Limited Scale. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(2). 8 indexed citations

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Yu, Yanzhong, et al.. (2023). Generation of a linear array of focal spots with prescribed characteristic using the radiation pattern from a tapered line source antenna. Optics Communications. 534. 129329–129329. 1 indexed citations

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Gu, Liangliang, Qian Cao, & Qiwen Zhan. (2023). Spatiotemporal optical vortex wavepackets with phase singularities embedded in multiple domains [Invited]. Chinese Optics Letters. 21(8). 80003–80003. 12 indexed citations

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Gu, Liangliang, Rong Shu, Xiangfeng Liu, Haifeng Hu, & Qiwen Zhan. (2023). Enhanced Diffractive Circular Dichroism from Stereoscopic Plasmonic Molecule Array. Nanomaterials. 13(7). 1175–1175. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Jian, et al.. (2023). Dynamical Modulation of Transverse Orbital Angular Momentum in Highly Confined Spatiotemporal Optical Vortex. Photonics. 10(2). 148–148. 3 indexed citations

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Wan, Chenhao, Qian Cao, Jian Chen, Andy Chong, & Qiwen Zhan. (2022). Toroidal vortices of light. Nature Photonics. 16(7). 519–522. 125 indexed citations

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Hu, Haifeng, Lyu Zhou, Jing Zeng, et al.. (2021). Multiple concentric rainbows induced by microscale concave interfaces for reflective displays. Applied Materials Today. 24. 101146–101146. 5 indexed citations

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Naidoo, Darryl, Hend Sroor, Yao‐Wei Huang, et al.. (2021). High-purity orbital angular momentum states from a visible metasurface laser. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. STh1B.3–STh1B.3. 2 indexed citations

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Zhan, Qiwen. (2019). From Cylindrical to Complex and Beyond: guest editorial. Advances in Optics and Photonics. 11(2).

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Yu, Yanzhong, et al.. (2017). Creation of a multi-segmented optical needle with prescribed length and spacing using the radiation pattern from a sectional-uniform line source. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 10708–10708. 13 indexed citations

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