Shuman Sun

448 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 219 citations indexed

About

Shuman Sun is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Shuman Sun has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 219 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 2 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Shuman Sun's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (10 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (8 papers) and Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (4 papers). Shuman Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (10 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (8 papers) and Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (4 papers). Shuman Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Shuman Sun's co-authors include Xu Yi, Zijiao Yang, Mandana Jahanbozorgi, Dongin Jeong, Olivier Pfister, Hansuek Lee, Beichen Wang, Jesse Morgan, Steven M. Bowers and Daniel J. Blumenthal and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Photonics.

In The Last Decade

Shuman Sun

9 papers receiving 205 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.

Integrated optical frequency division for microwave and mmWave generation

2024 75 citations Shuman Sun, Beichen Wang et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shuman Sun United States	7	183	162	35	13	8	12	219
Zijiao Yang United States	9	274 1.5×	249 1.5×	43 1.2×	16 1.2×	2 0.3×	17	339
Mandana Jahanbozorgi United States	4	213 1.2×	194 1.2×	39 1.1×	9 0.7×		9	249
Dongin Jeong South Korea	7	210 1.1×	208 1.3×	33 0.9×	14 1.1×		15	251
Song Tang China	9	160 0.9×	277 1.7×	28 0.8×	12 0.9×	12 1.5×	23	303
Toby Bi Germany	10	166 0.9×	163 1.0×	10 0.3×	16 1.2×		27	221
Annina Riedhauser Switzerland	4	187 1.0×	215 1.3×	27 0.8×	19 1.5×		9	244
Maodong Gao United States	6	230 1.3×	222 1.4×	7 0.2×	10 0.8×		17	259
Jeremy Staffa United States	8	230 1.3×	220 1.4×	37 1.1×	7 0.5×		14	274
Albert Canagasabey United Kingdom	10	201 1.1×	215 1.3×	58 1.7×	11 0.8×	2 0.3×	29	285
Anthony Rizzo United States	12	208 1.1×	400 2.5×	71 2.0×	16 1.2×		53	423

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shuman Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shuman Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shuman Sun 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 Shuman Sun. Shuman Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Ji, Qing-Xin, Wei Zhang, Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, et al.. (2025). Dispersive-wave-agile optical frequency division. Nature Photonics. 19(6). 624–629. 6 indexed citations

2.

Tian, Hao, Qing-Xin Ji, Shuman Sun, et al.. (2025). Separable integrated frequency control of a microcomb. Optica. 12(9). 1350–1350.

3.

Sun, Shuman, Mark Harrington, Kaikai Liu, et al.. (2025). Microcavity Kerr optical frequency division with integrated SiN photonics. Nature Photonics. 19(6). 637–642. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Zonglin, Xia Sun, Shuman Sun, et al.. (2024). Assembling a S-type heterostructure photocatalyst of Bi12O17Cl2/CuBi2O4 to reduce CO2 into CO. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 999. 175029–175029. 8 indexed citations

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Sun, Shuman, Beichen Wang, Kaikai Liu, et al.. (2024). Integrated optical frequency division for microwave and mmWave generation. Nature. 627(8004). 540–545. 75 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sun, Shuman, Mark Harrington, Beichen Wang, et al.. (2024). Kerr optical frequency division with SiN-based photonics for low noise mmWave generation. SM1M.6–SM1M.6.

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Sun, Shuman, Beichen Wang, Kaikai Liu, et al.. (2023). Integrated Optical Frequency Division for Low Noise mmWave Generation. W2B.5–W2B.5.

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Jahanbozorgi, Mandana, Zijiao Yang, Shuman Sun, et al.. (2023). Generation of squeezed quantum microcombs with silicon nitride integrated photonic circuits. Optica. 10(8). 1100–1100. 21 indexed citations

9.

Niu, Rui, Shuai Wan, Shuman Sun, et al.. (2023). Repetition rate tuning and locking of solitons in a microrod resonator. Optics Letters. 49(3). 570–570. 6 indexed citations

10.

Yang, Zijiao, Mandana Jahanbozorgi, Dongin Jeong, et al.. (2022). A Quantum Microcomb with 2.1 dB Raw Squeezing. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. FW1A.7–FW1A.7. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Beichen, Zijiao Yang, Shuman Sun, & Xu Yi. (2022). Radio-frequency line-by-line Fourier synthesis based on optical soliton microcombs. Photonics Research. 10(4). 932–932. 12 indexed citations

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Yang, Zijiao, Mandana Jahanbozorgi, Dongin Jeong, et al.. (2021). A squeezed quantum microcomb on a chip. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4781–4781. 86 indexed citations

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