Yangjian Cai

19.4k total citations
663 papers, 16.0k citations indexed

About

Yangjian Cai is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yangjian Cai has authored 663 papers receiving a total of 16.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 610 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 279 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 219 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yangjian Cai's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (524 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (126 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (97 papers). Yangjian Cai is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (524 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (126 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (97 papers). Yangjian Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Türkiye. Yangjian Cai's co-authors include Fei Wang, Qiang Lin, Chengliang Zhao, Yahong Chen, Halil T. Eyyuboğlu, Yahya Baykal, Olga Korotkova, Sailing He, Xianlong Liu and Shi-Yao Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yangjian Cai

618 papers receiving 14.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yangjian Cai China	63	14.7k	6.9k	5.2k	1.6k	1.6k	663	16.0k
Olga Korotkova United States	52	8.1k 0.5×	4.3k 0.6×	3.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	559 0.4×	299	9.2k
Moshe Tur Israel	55	14.6k 1.0×	5.2k 0.8×	12.0k 2.3×	324 0.2×	427 0.3×	606	19.4k
J. P. Woerdman Netherlands	49	15.5k 1.1×	6.2k 0.9×	5.1k 1.0×	372 0.2×	1.0k 0.6×	281	17.6k
Alan E. Willner United States	63	17.3k 1.2×	5.8k 0.8×	16.6k 3.2×	384 0.2×	458 0.3×	967	24.6k
Andrew Forbes South Africa	58	10.3k 0.7×	4.4k 0.6×	3.6k 0.7×	625 0.4×	498 0.3×	422	12.5k
Yongxiong Ren United States	36	11.5k 0.8×	4.8k 0.7×	6.4k 1.2×	250 0.2×	296 0.2×	150	12.9k
Aristide Dogariu United States	40	6.3k 0.4×	4.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.3×	819 0.5×	735 0.5×	239	7.9k
L. Allen United Kingdom	29	13.7k 0.9×	6.4k 0.9×	2.6k 0.5×	204 0.1×	1.1k 0.7×	40	14.4k
Qiwen Zhan China	46	9.6k 0.7×	6.4k 0.9×	3.0k 0.6×	300 0.2×	345 0.2×	396	11.4k
Hao Huang United States	32	10.8k 0.7×	4.6k 0.7×	6.0k 1.2×	225 0.1×	288 0.2×	173	12.4k

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Chen, Jiahao, Jian He, Hongming Gao, et al.. (2025). Maximizing uniformity of light intensity in an Airyprime-Gaussian beam elliptical array via optimization of core parameters. Optics & Laser Technology. 186. 112619–112619.

Zhu, Guanyu, et al.. (2025). Corner states in photonic T-graphene lattices protected by one-dimensional topological phase transition. Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 192. 116044–116044. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Xin, Qian Cao, Jinsong Liu, et al.. (2025). Dynamics of photonic toroidal vortices mediated by orbital angular momenta. Science Advances. 11(39). eadz0843–eadz0843. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Zhuoyi, Xingyuan Lu, Xingyuan Lu, et al.. (2025). Few-Mode Superposition for High-Efficiency Generation of Tailored Partially Coherent Light. ACS Photonics. 12(4). 2160–2168. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Hongzhe, Zhuoyi Wang, Hao Zhang, et al.. (2025). Overlap-scanning self-referencing diffractive imaging with enlarged field of view under incoherent illumination. Applied Physics Letters. 126(1).

Zhao, Lina, et al.. (2024). Oxygen vacancies based BiOBr nanoflowers saturable absorber and its application in Q-switched mode-locked infrared laser. Journal of Luminescence. 269. 120526–120526. 3 indexed citations

Chong, Haining, et al.. (2024). Tailored absorption/emission and ultrastrong coupling from heavily doped germanium plasmonic antennas. Optics & Laser Technology. 175. 110731–110731. 1 indexed citations

Lu, Xingyuan, Tong Liu, Jianbo Gao, et al.. (2024). Robust detection of a rotational Doppler shift with randomly fluctuated light. Optics Letters. 49(15). 4198–4198. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Qian, et al.. (2023). Experimental realization of Airy beams on incoherent background. Optics & Laser Technology. 169. 110020–110020. 4 indexed citations

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He, Jian, et al.. (2023). How to select the dimensionless radius to realize the strongest abruptly autofocusing ability of circular Airyprime beams. Optics & Laser Technology. 168. 109932–109932. 11 indexed citations

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Yu, Jiayi, Xinlei Zhu, Fei Wang, Yahong Chen, & Yangjian Cai. (2023). Research progress on manipulating spatial coherence structure of light beam and its applications. Progress in Quantum Electronics. 91-92. 100486–100486. 42 indexed citations

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Wang, Ke, Qian Du, Fangning Liu, et al.. (2023). Propagation of a Lorentz Non-Uniformly Correlated Beam in a Turbulent Ocean. Photonics. 10(1). 49–49. 6 indexed citations

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Cai, Yangjian, et al.. (2023). Nonlinear mirror mode-locked dual-wavelength vortex laser generation. Optics & Laser Technology. 161. 109160–109160. 5 indexed citations

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Cai, Yangjian, et al.. (2023). Inner-cavity generation of mid-infrared optical vortex arrays from an Er:CaF2 laser. Infrared Physics & Technology. 133. 104863–104863. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hao, et al.. (2023). Airy Transform of the New Power-Exponent-Phase Vortex Beam. Photonics. 10(9). 974–974. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhuoyi, et al.. (2023). Topological Charge Measurement of a Partially Coherent Vortex Beam Using Dual Cylindrical Lenses with an Arbitrary Angle. Photonics. 10(4). 444–444. 5 indexed citations

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Zhao, Qian, et al.. (2022). Motionless synthesis and scanning of lattice light sheets with a single digital micromirror device. Applied Physics Letters. 120(21). 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaohan, et al.. (2022). Complex and phase screen methods for studying arbitrary genuine Schell-model partially coherent pulses in nonlinear media. Optics Express. 30(14). 24222–24222. 12 indexed citations

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Liu, Xin, et al.. (2021). Experimental realization of scalar and vector perfect Laguerre–Gaussian beams. Applied Physics Letters. 119(2). 33 indexed citations

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Zeng, Jun, Xianlong Liu, Fei Wang, Chengliang Zhao, & Yangjian Cai. (2018). Partially coherent fractional vortex beam. Optics Express. 26(21). 26830–26830. 31 indexed citations

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