Shaofu Xu

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 625 citations indexed

About

Shaofu Xu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shaofu Xu has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 625 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 20 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Shaofu Xu's work include Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (20 papers), Optical Network Technologies (20 papers) and Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (19 papers). Shaofu Xu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (20 papers), Optical Network Technologies (20 papers) and Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (19 papers). Shaofu Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Chile and United States. Shaofu Xu's co-authors include Weiwen Zou, Jing Wang, Sicheng Yi, Jianping Chen, Bowen Ma, Xingjun Wang, Zihan Tao, Lin Chang, Fenghe Yang and Bitao Shen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Optics Letters and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Shaofu Xu

29 papers receiving 558 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.

  1. Microcomb-based integrated photonic processing unit
    2023 165 citations Bowen Bai, Haowen Shu et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shaofu Xu China 12 575 381 163 27 26 38 625
Aashu Jha United States 11 660 1.1× 611 1.6× 64 0.4× 14 0.5× 26 1.0× 25 709
Farshid Ashtiani United States 6 470 0.8× 362 1.0× 114 0.7× 14 0.5× 36 1.4× 23 566
Bohan Li United States 9 471 0.8× 359 0.9× 236 1.4× 11 0.4× 42 1.6× 17 673
Jared C. Mikkelsen Canada 12 647 1.1× 202 0.5× 374 2.3× 12 0.4× 41 1.6× 29 717
Ying Zuo China 10 412 0.7× 318 0.8× 175 1.1× 10 0.4× 71 2.7× 27 651
Yifan Zhao United States 9 244 0.4× 258 0.7× 70 0.4× 19 0.7× 77 3.0× 17 441
Wenchan Dong China 11 494 0.9× 349 0.9× 116 0.7× 7 0.3× 32 1.2× 23 589
Simon Bilodeau United States 9 486 0.8× 450 1.2× 50 0.3× 10 0.4× 22 0.8× 23 533
Alexander J. Geers United States 4 351 0.6× 318 0.8× 46 0.3× 7 0.3× 29 1.1× 6 425
Shi-Yuan Ma United States 4 259 0.5× 265 0.7× 36 0.2× 14 0.5× 20 0.8× 8 346

Countries citing papers authored by Shaofu Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shaofu Xu

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Shaofu Xu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Shaofu Xu. The network helps show where Shaofu Xu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shaofu Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shaofu Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shaofu Xu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Shaofu Xu. Shaofu Xu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Zou, Weiwen, et al.. (2024). Integrated Photonic Analog-to-Digital Converter and Its Applications. 1–4. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Jing, Haoru Yang, Nina Xiong, et al.. (2023). Toward photonic–electronic convergence based on heterogeneous platform of merging lithium niobate into silicon. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 40(6). 1573–1573. 6 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yang, et al.. (2023). Super-Resolution Method for Microwave Front-Looking Imaging Using Broadband Signals and Spatial Spectrum Shifting. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 72(7). 4309–4316.
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Xiao, Lairong, Shaofu Xu, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2023). Effect of C Addition on the Microstructure and Fracture Properties of In Situ Laminated Nb/Nb5Si3 Composites. Materials. 16(16). 5637–5637. 2 indexed citations
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Bai, Bowen, Haowen Shu, Lin Chang, et al.. (2023). Microcomb-based integrated photonic processing unit. Nature Communications. 14(1). 66–66. 165 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Shaofu, et al.. (2022). Photonic parallel channel estimation of MIMO-OFDM wireless communication systems. Optics Express. 31(2). 1394–1394. 5 indexed citations
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Yi, Sicheng, Shaofu Xu, Jing Wang, & Weiwen Zou. (2022). Enhancement of calculation accuracy of the integrated photonic tensor flow processer by global optical power allocation. Optics Letters. 47(24). 6409–6409.
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Xu, Shaofu, Jing Wang, Sicheng Yi, & Weiwen Zou. (2022). High-order tensor flow processing using integrated photonic circuits. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7970–7970. 95 indexed citations
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Xu, Shaofu, et al.. (2021). A Heterogeneous Silicon on Lithium Niobate Modulator for Ultra-Compact and High-Performance Photonic Integrated Circuits. IEEE photonics journal. 13(1). 1–12. 17 indexed citations
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Yi, Sicheng, Shaofu Xu, & Weiwen Zou. (2021). Multi-band low-noise microwave-signal-receiving system with a photonic frequency down-conversion and transfer-learning network. Optics Letters. 46(23). 5982–5982. 7 indexed citations
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Xu, Shaofu, et al.. (2021). Adaptive deep-learning algorithm for signal recovery of broadband microwave photonic receiving systems based on supervised training. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 38(3). 834–834. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Shaofu, et al.. (2020). Optical Convolutional Neural Network With WDM-Based Optical Patching and Microring Weighting Banks. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 33(2). 89–92. 26 indexed citations
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Xu, Shaofu, et al.. (2020). Modified deep-learning-powered photonic analog-to-digital converter for wideband complicated signal receiving. Optics Letters. 45(19). 5303–5303. 11 indexed citations
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Xu, Shaofu, Jing Wang, & Weiwen Zou. (2020). Optical patching scheme for optical convolutional neural networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing and optical delay lines. Optics Letters. 45(13). 3689–3689. 28 indexed citations
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Xu, Shaofu, et al.. (2019). Deep-learning-powered photonic analog-to-digital conversion. Light Science & Applications. 8(1). 66–66. 57 indexed citations
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Xu, Shaofu, et al.. (2019). High-energy-efficiency integrated photonic convolutional neural networks. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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