Tianhua Xu

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
154 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Tianhua Xu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Tianhua Xu has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 41 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Tianhua Xu's work include Optical Network Technologies (102 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (88 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (42 papers). Tianhua Xu is often cited by papers focused on Optical Network Technologies (102 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (88 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (42 papers). Tianhua Xu collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Sweden. Tianhua Xu's co-authors include Tiegen Liu, Polina Bayvel, Sergei Popov, Robert I. Killey, Ziyihui Wang, Gunnar Jacobsen, Alex Alvarado, Yimo Zhang, Yu‐Cheng Chen and Junfeng Jiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nano Letters, Scientific Reports and Optics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Tianhua Xu

127 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Applications of nanomaterial technology in biosensing

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tianhua Xu United Kingdom	24	1.4k	463	225	148	137	154	1.8k
Sandeep Gupta United States	18	724 0.5×	340 0.7×	296 1.3×	68 0.5×	123 0.9×	85	1.4k
J. Ajayan India	27	1.7k 1.2×	379 0.8×	515 2.3×	314 2.1×	127 0.9×	155	2.3k
P. Yupapin Vietnam	19	1.1k 0.8×	528 1.1×	605 2.7×	126 0.9×	214 1.6×	127	1.6k
John Hedley United Kingdom	21	728 0.5×	579 1.3×	513 2.3×	74 0.5×	45 0.3×	81	1.3k
Liying Liu China	26	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 2.3×	268 1.2×	143 1.0×	55 0.4×	95	1.9k
Mohammad Rakibul Islam Bangladesh	34	2.1k 1.5×	291 0.6×	807 3.6×	95 0.6×	111 0.8×	130	2.5k
Minho Kwon South Korea	20	811 0.6×	368 0.8×	315 1.4×	60 0.4×	42 0.3×	55	1.4k
Liang Han China	23	1.2k 0.9×	180 0.4×	302 1.3×	34 0.2×	81 0.6×	106	1.7k
Yinan Wang China	16	720 0.5×	100 0.2×	365 1.6×	107 0.7×	65 0.5×	128	1.1k
Xinmiao Liu China	19	798 0.6×	242 0.5×	386 1.7×	134 0.9×	29 0.2×	56	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Tianhua Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tianhua Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tianhua Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tianhua Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tianhua 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 Tianhua Xu. Tianhua 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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20 of 20 papers shown

Fu, Yan, Tiegen Liu, Ziyihui Wang, et al.. (2025). Hydrogel-Based Whispering Gallery Mode Microfluidic Biosensor for Urea Detection. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 43(14). 6969–6975.

Leeson, Mark S., Zheng Liu, Sander Wahls, et al.. (2025). Machine learning-based models for optical fiber channels. Optics Communications. 591. 132099–132099.

Gao, Yang, Shuangqi Li, Tianhua Xu, et al.. (2025). Distributed Model Predictive Control Strategy for Multi-energy Virtual Power Plant Based on Digital Twin. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 1–1.

Chen, Chaoxiang, Kun Liu, Xinxin Hu, et al.. (2025). Enhancing weak disturbance localization in asymmetric optical fiber vibration sensing system based on polarization control. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 195. 109249–109249.

Lakshminarayana, Subhash, et al.. (2025). A benchmarking study of instance segmentation methods for photovoltaic cell defect detection using electroluminescence images. Solar Energy. 303. 114083–114083.

Zhao, Jian, et al.. (2024). ANN/Random forest based performance monitoring in high-speed short-reach optical interconnections. Optical Fiber Technology. 87. 103941–103941. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Chongfu, et al.. (2024). Channel estimation for fiber-terahertz communication based on conditional generative adversarial networks. Optics Communications. 571. 130953–130953. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Shuang, Yongle Li, Junfeng Jiang, et al.. (2024). Electropolymerized Dopamine Film-Modified Optical Fiber LMR Biosensor for Immunoassay. Photonic Sensors. 15(1). 5 indexed citations

Zhao, Jian, et al.. (2024). Nonlinear impairment compensation in multi-channel communication systems based on correlated digital backpropagation with separation of walk-off effect. Optical Fiber Technology. 86. 103850–103850. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Tongyang, Zhongxiang Wei, Tianhua Xu, & Gan Zheng. (2024). A Low-Cost Multi-Band Waveform Security Framework in Resource-Constrained Communications. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 23(8). 9190–9205. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Haonan, et al.. (2023). Highly sensitive and label-free detection of biotin using a liquid crystal-based optofluidic biosensor. Biomedical Optics Express. 14(7). 3763–3763. 3 indexed citations

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Xu, Tianhua, et al.. (2021). Information rates in Kerr nonlinearity limited optical fiber communication systems. Optics Express. 29(11). 17428–17428. 31 indexed citations

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Shevchenko, Nikita A., et al.. (2021). Nonlinear Coherent Optical Systems in the Presence of Equalization Enhanced Phase Noise. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 39(14). 4646–4653. 47 indexed citations

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Hu, Wenxiu, Min Zhang, Zhe Li, et al.. (2021). High-Dimensional Feature Based Non-Coherent Detection for Multi-Intensity Modulated Ultraviolet Communications. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 40(7). 1879–1887. 10 indexed citations

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Zhao, Jian, Yaping Liu, & Tianhua Xu. (2019). Advanced DSP for Coherent Optical Fiber Communication. Applied Sciences. 9(19). 4192–4192. 40 indexed citations

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Li, Zhe, M. Sezer Erkılınç, Kai Shi, et al.. (2017). Spectrally Efficient 168 Gb/s/λ WDM 64-QAM Single-Sideband Nyquist-Subcarrier Modulation With Kramers–Kronig Direct-Detection Receivers. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 36(6). 1340–1346. 29 indexed citations

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Karanov, Boris, Tianhua Xu, Nikita A. Shevchenko, et al.. (2017). Span length and information rate optimisation in optical transmission systems using single-channel digital backpropagation. Optics Express. 25(21). 25353–25353. 9 indexed citations

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Xu, Tianhua, Daniel Semrau, Gabriele Liga, et al.. (2016). Achievable Information Rates Estimation for 100-nm Raman-Amplified Optical Transmission System. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Tianhua, Jie Li, Gunnar Jacobsen, et al.. (2015). Field trial over 820 km installed SSMF and its potential Terabit/s superchannel application with up to 57.5-Gbaud DP-QPSK transmission. Optics Communications. 353. 133–138. 16 indexed citations

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Maher, Robert, Masaki Sato, Tianhua Xu, et al.. (2014). Digital Pulse Shaping to Mitigate Linear Crosstalk in Nyquist-Spaced 16QAM WDM Transmission Systems. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick). 5 indexed citations

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