Sungsam Kang

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 881 citations indexed

About

Sungsam Kang is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Acoustics and Ultrasonics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sungsam Kang has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 881 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 15 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 11 papers in Acoustics and Ultrasonics. Recurrent topics in Sungsam Kang's work include Random lasers and scattering media (11 papers), Optical Coherence Tomography Applications (10 papers) and Digital Holography and Microscopy (8 papers). Sungsam Kang is often cited by papers focused on Random lasers and scattering media (11 papers), Optical Coherence Tomography Applications (10 papers) and Digital Holography and Microscopy (8 papers). Sungsam Kang collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Japan. Sungsam Kang's co-authors include Wonshik Choi, Youngwoon Choi, Wonjun Choi, Seokchan Yoon, Mooseok Jang, Moonseok Kim, Kyungwon An, Jung-Ryul Kim, Tae-Seok Yang and Jin Hee Hong and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Sungsam Kang

31 papers receiving 824 citations

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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.

Deep optical imaging within complex scattering media

2020 262 citations Seokchan Yoon, Mooseok Jang et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sungsam Kang South Korea	13	413	407	365	166	95	32	881
Hyeonseung Yu South Korea	11	334 0.8×	312 0.8×	462 1.3×	74 0.4×	11 0.1×	13	639
Tom Vettenburg United Kingdom	10	655 1.6×	595 1.5×	81 0.2×	352 2.1×	53 0.6×	34	1.0k
Xiangsheng Xie China	13	523 1.3×	404 1.0×	217 0.6×	47 0.3×	35 0.4×	63	947
Esben Ravn Andresen France	21	531 1.3×	402 1.0×	262 0.7×	411 2.5×	24 0.3×	61	1.2k
Tae-Seok Yang South Korea	14	556 1.3×	766 1.9×	732 2.0×	205 1.2×	8 0.1×	35	1.4k
Changhyeong Yoon South Korea	11	401 1.0×	457 1.1×	711 1.9×	81 0.5×	8 0.1×	19	947
Martin Plöschner United Kingdom	15	446 1.1×	702 1.7×	446 1.2×	146 0.9×	7 0.1×	29	1.2k
Hema Ramachandran India	14	244 0.6×	215 0.5×	215 0.6×	34 0.2×	12 0.1×	50	576
Jonathan Nylk United Kingdom	12	617 1.5×	617 1.5×	63 0.2×	468 2.8×	49 0.5×	20	1.1k
Ermes Toninelli United Kingdom	11	339 0.8×	132 0.3×	246 0.7×	69 0.4×	15 0.2×	16	551

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sungsam Kang

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All Works

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Kang, Sungsam, Seokchan Yoon, & Wonshik Choi. (2025). Implementation of reflection matrix microscopy: an algorithm perspective. Journal of Physics Photonics. 7(2). 23002–23002. 1 indexed citations

Totz, Jan Frederik, Sungsam Kang, Peter T. C. So, et al.. (2024). Cell membrane buckling governs early-stage ridge formation in butterfly wing scales. Cell Reports Physical Science. 5(7). 102063–102063. 1 indexed citations

Kang, Sungsam, Renjie Zhou, Mårten Brelén, et al.. (2023). Mapping nanoscale topographic features in thick tissues with speckle diffraction tomography. Light Science & Applications. 12(1). 200–200. 8 indexed citations

Moon, Jung-Ho, et al.. (2023). Measuring the scattering tensor of a disordered nonlinear medium. Nature Physics. 19(11). 1709–1718. 24 indexed citations

Moon, Jung-Ho, Sungsam Kang, Jin Hee Hong, et al.. (2023). Second-harmonic generation microscopy with synthetic aperture and computational adaptive optics. Optica. 11(1). 128–128. 5 indexed citations

Kang, Sungsam, Ho‐Jun Lee, Se‐Ho Kim, et al.. (2023). Tracing multiple scattering trajectories for deep optical imaging in scattering media. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6871–6871. 21 indexed citations

Hong, Jin Hee, Sungsam Kang, Hojun Lee, et al.. (2023). Computational conjugate adaptive optics microscopy for longitudinal through-skull imaging of cortical myelin. Nature Communications. 14(1). 105–105. 19 indexed citations

Lee, Hojun, et al.. (2022). High-throughput volumetric adaptive optical imaging using compressed time-reversal matrix. Light Science & Applications. 11(1). 16–16. 16 indexed citations

Kang, Pilsung, et al.. (2021). Optical transfer function of time-gated coherent imaging in the presence of a scattering medium. Optics Express. 29(3). 3395–3395. 1 indexed citations

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Kim, Moonseok, Jin Hee Hong, Suhyun Kim, et al.. (2019). Label-free neuroimaging in vivo using synchronous angular scanning microscopy with single-scattering accumulation algorithm. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3152–3152. 29 indexed citations

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Kang, Sungsam, et al.. (2018). Optical imaging featuring both long working distance and high spatial resolution by correcting the aberration of a large aperture lens. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 9165–9165. 8 indexed citations

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Kang, Sungsam, et al.. (2017). Label-free characterization of ultra violet-radiation-induced changes in skin fibroblasts with Raman spectroscopy and quantitative phase microscopy. Nature. 1 indexed citations

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Kang, Sungsam, Pilsung Kang, Tae-Seok Yang, et al.. (2017). High-resolution adaptive optical imaging within thick scattering media using closed-loop accumulation of single scattering. Nature Communications. 8(1). 2157–2157. 69 indexed citations

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Singh, Surya Pratap, Sungsam Kang, Jeon Woong Kang, et al.. (2017). Label-free characterization of ultra violet-radiation-induced changes in skin fibroblasts with Raman spectroscopy and quantitative phase microscopy. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 10829–10829. 17 indexed citations

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Kang, Sungsam, Wonjun Choi, Tae-Seok Yang, et al.. (2015). Imaging deep within a scattering medium using collective accumulation of single-scattered waves. Nature Photonics. 9(4). 253–258. 144 indexed citations

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Kang, Sungsam, et al.. (2011). Controlled generation of single photons in a coupled atom-cavity system at a fast repetition-rate. Optics Express. 19(3). 2440–2440. 3 indexed citations

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Choi, Youngwoon, et al.. (2010). Quasieigenstate Coalescence in an Atom-Cavity Quantum Composite. Physical Review Letters. 104(15). 153601–153601. 150 indexed citations

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Combs, Christian A., Alexander Yu. Smirnov, David J. Chess, et al.. (2010). Optimizing multiphoton fluorescence microscopy light collection from living tissue by noncontact total emission detection (epiTED). Journal of Microscopy. 241(2). 153–161. 21 indexed citations

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Park, Changwon, Jung-Ryul Kim, Youngwoon Choi, et al.. (2010). Tunneling-Induced Spectral Broadening of a Single Atom in a Three-Dimensional Optical Lattice. Nano Letters. 11(2). 729–733. 7 indexed citations

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Kang, Sungsam, et al.. (2010). Continuous control of the coupling constant in an atom-cavity system by using elliptic polarization and magnetic sublevels. Optics Express. 18(9). 9286–9286. 3 indexed citations

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