Xiankai Sun

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
133 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Xiankai Sun is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiankai Sun has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 105 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Xiankai Sun's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (93 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (41 papers) and Mechanical and Optical Resonators (37 papers). Xiankai Sun is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (93 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (41 papers) and Mechanical and Optical Resonators (37 papers). Xiankai Sun collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Xiankai Sun's co-authors include Zejie Yu, Hon Ki Tsang, Xiang Xi, Amnon Yariv, Jingwen Ma, Hong X. Tang, Yeyu Tong, Wen Zhou, Chi Xiong and Carsten Schuck and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Xiankai Sun

123 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Acousto-optic modulation ... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300 400
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. Acousto-optic modulation of photonic bound state in the continuum
    2020 463 citations Zejie Yu, Xiankai Sun Light Science & Applications profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Xiankai Sun 2.2k 2.1k 606 463 453 133 3.2k
Marcello Ferrera 2.5k 1.1× 2.5k 1.2× 1.1k 1.8× 747 1.6× 294 0.6× 80 3.5k
Xiudong Sun 1.3k 0.6× 1.7k 0.8× 654 1.1× 728 1.6× 752 1.7× 282 3.2k
Carl B. Poitras 2.4k 1.1× 1.8k 0.9× 333 0.5× 606 1.3× 267 0.6× 54 3.2k
Di Zhu 2.5k 1.1× 2.6k 1.2× 885 1.5× 693 1.5× 326 0.7× 74 3.9k
Jin Liu 2.0k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 1.1k 1.9× 812 1.8× 697 1.5× 125 3.5k
Owen D. Miller 1.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 864 1.4× 822 1.8× 574 1.3× 71 3.0k
Chee Wei Wong 3.6k 1.6× 4.0k 1.9× 1.4k 2.4× 445 1.0× 676 1.5× 235 5.3k
Michael J. Strain 2.3k 1.0× 2.1k 1.0× 775 1.3× 331 0.7× 165 0.4× 161 3.2k
Michal Lipson 3.1k 1.4× 2.9k 1.4× 1.4k 2.4× 428 0.9× 264 0.6× 46 4.1k
Francesco Riboli 1.0k 0.5× 2.1k 1.0× 712 1.2× 249 0.5× 319 0.7× 68 2.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiankai Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiankai Sun

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhou, Xuetong, Ying Xue, Hanke Feng, et al.. (2025). Waveguide grating couplers with bandwidth beyond 200 nm. Nanophotonics. 14(5). 571–579. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiankai, et al.. (2025). Topological bound states in the continuum in a non‐Hermitian photonic system. Nanophotonics. 14(1). 43–50. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiankai, Wei Fu, Zihan Li, Ke Shi, & Yanbo Li. (2025). Research progress on the irradiation effect of silicon carbide devices. 58–58. 1 indexed citations
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He, Jianfeng, Xinyi Zhao, Jian Xu, & Xiankai Sun. (2025). Lithium tantalate microring cavities with a Q factor exceeding 10 million. Photonics Research. 13(5). 1385–1385. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Z. W., Ming Li, Juanjuan Lu, et al.. (2025). Dispersion engineering for broadband visible microcombs via mode hybridization and inverse design. Optics Letters. 50(5). 1751–1751.
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Lu, Qijing, et al.. (2024). Symmetry‐protected bound states in the continuum on an integrated photonic platform. Nanophotonics. 13(18). 3527–3534. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yaojing, Shuangyou Zhang, Yi Wang, et al.. (2024). Near‐Infrared Dual‐Band Frequency Comb Generation from a Silicon Resonator. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(4).
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Zhou, Xuetong, Ying Xue, Jianfeng He, et al.. (2024). Fully Etched Low-Back-Reflection and High-Efficiency Silicon Waveguide Grating Couplers With Minimum Feature Size Above 260 nm. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 43(8). 3854–3859. 1 indexed citations
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Saroka, Vasil A., Fang Kong, Lapo Bogani, et al.. (2024). Flat band, tunable chiral anomaly, and pitchfork bifurcation in a honeycomb lattice. Physical review. B.. 110(19). 2 indexed citations
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Huang, Zheng, Zufang Huang, Ming Li, et al.. (2024). Broadband Near-Visible Frequency Comb Generation via High-Order Mode Dispersion Engineering in a Microbubble Resonator. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 43(5). 2226–2231.
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Xi, Xiang, et al.. (2023). Gigahertz Phononic Integrated Circuits Based on Overlay Slot Waveguides. Physical Review Applied. 19(6). 7 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiankai, et al.. (2023). Experimental Observation of Dissipatively Coupled Bound States in the Continuum on an Integrated Photonic Platform. Laser & Photonics Review. 17(7). 8 indexed citations
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Ma, Jingwen, Mingchu Tang, Haochuan Li, et al.. (2023). Room-temperature continuous-wave topological Dirac-vortex microcavity lasers on silicon. Light Science & Applications. 12(1). 255–255. 25 indexed citations
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Wang, Xue-Zhou, Long Jin, Aleksandr A. Sergeev, et al.. (2023). Quasi-2D Dion-Jacobson phase perovskites as a promising material platform for stable and high-performance lasers. Science Advances. 9(43). eadj3476–eadj3476. 23 indexed citations
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Ye, Fan, Yue Yu, Xiang Xi, & Xiankai Sun. (2022). Second-harmonic generation in etchless lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides with bound states in the continuum. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. STu4G.7–STu4G.7. 1 indexed citations
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Ma, Jingwen, Mingchu Tang, Haochuan Li, et al.. (2022). Monolithically Integrated Ultralow Threshold Topological Corner State Nanolasers on Silicon. ACS Photonics. 9(12). 3824–3830. 8 indexed citations
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Liu, Xudong, Jialiang Huang, Hao Chen, et al.. (2022). Terahertz topological photonic waveguide switch for on-chip communication. Photonics Research. 10(4). 1090–1090. 40 indexed citations
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Wang, Yi, Zejie Yu, Yeyu Tong, et al.. (2020). High-speed infrared two-dimensional platinum diselenide photodetectors. Applied Physics Letters. 116(21). 38 indexed citations
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Xi, Xiang, Jingwen Ma, Xinxin Hu, et al.. (2020). Unraveling the topological charge of optical force in a solid dielectric. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiankai, et al.. (2009). Adiabaticity criterion and the shortest adiabatic mode transformer in a coupled-waveguide system. Optics Letters. 34(3). 280–280. 133 indexed citations

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