Yu Chen

13.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
311 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Yu Chen is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Chen has authored 311 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 181 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 145 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 44 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Yu Chen's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (87 papers), Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (46 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (45 papers). Yu Chen is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (87 papers), Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (46 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (45 papers). Yu Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yu Chen's co-authors include Han Zhang, Chujun Zhao, Shuangchun Wen, Dingyuan Tang, Shuqing Chen, Guobao Jiang, Zhiteng Wang, Shunbin Lu, Dianyuan Fan and Ying Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yu Chen

272 papers receiving 8.7k 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.

Mechanically exfoliated black phosphorus as a new saturable absorber for both Q-switching and Mode-locking laser operation

2015 888 citations Yu Chen et al. Optics Express profile →
Ultra-short pulse generation by a topological insulator based saturable absorber

2012 551 citations Yu Chen et al. profile →
Ytterbium-doped fiber laser passively mode locked by few-layer Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) saturable absorber functioned with evanescent field interaction

2014 420 citations Yu Chen et al. profile →
Wavelength-tunable picosecond soliton fiber laser with Topological Insulator: Bi_2Se_3 as a mode locker

2012 399 citations Yu Chen et al. Optics Express profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Chen China	41	5.6k	5.2k	2.1k	1.6k	671	311	9.1k
Yan Li China	48	3.5k 0.6×	3.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	2.8k 1.8×	1.6k 2.4×	470	8.9k
Haobin Wang China	58	6.0k 1.1×	1.5k 0.3×	984 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	315 0.5×	235	10.4k
Qi Wang China	58	2.1k 0.4×	7.2k 1.4×	3.2k 1.6×	5.0k 3.2×	1.2k 1.8×	747	14.8k
Huiyun Liu United Kingdom	58	4.0k 0.7×	6.3k 1.2×	4.1k 2.0×	2.3k 1.5×	681 1.0×	360	10.6k
Jianqing Li China	53	2.5k 0.4×	5.3k 1.0×	5.7k 2.8×	2.8k 1.8×	1.2k 1.7×	371	11.4k
Koji Yamada Japan	49	4.3k 0.8×	7.6k 1.5×	3.4k 1.7×	1.1k 0.7×	992 1.5×	679	11.5k
Hendrik F. Hamann United States	36	1.9k 0.3×	3.0k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	580 0.9×	139	6.1k
Rajeev J. Ram United States	47	3.3k 0.6×	5.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	317 0.5×	255	7.9k
Gang‐Ding Peng Australia	49	3.1k 0.5×	7.5k 1.4×	1.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	357 0.5×	657	10.4k
Yan Feng China	45	4.8k 0.8×	5.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	954 0.6×	767 1.1×	593	8.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Chen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Yu, et al.. (2025). Adjustment of Springtime Thermal Anomaly Modes over the Tibetan Plateau Altered Its Interdecadal Relationship with East Asian Summer Monsoon during the Early 2000s. Journal of Climate. 38(20). 5857–5877. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Yu, Li Sun, Peng An, et al.. (2025). Exploring the potentials of indigenous Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia kudriavzevii for enhancing flavour and aromatic characteristics in apricot wines. Food Chemistry X. 25. 102178–102178. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Yong, et al.. (2025). Photonic spin Hall effect enabled highly sensitive pressure sensor. Optics Express. 33(14). 29834–29834.

Yang, Mengyao, et al.. (2025). Dynamic and highly sensitive photonic spin Hall effect sensor using quasi-bound states in the continuum. Journal of Optics. 27(11). 115401–115401.

Chen, Yu, et al.. (2024). Nanosecond pulse generation mode-locked by an artificial saturable absorber based on SMF-MMF-SMF structure. Optik. 304. 171759–171759.

Chen, Yu, et al.. (2024). Effect of annealing on ion-beam-sputtered hafnium oxide thin films properties. Optical Materials. 157. 116241–116241. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Qifan, et al.. (2024). LM-Infinite: Zero-Shot Extreme Length Generalization for Large Language Models. 3991–4008. 9 indexed citations

Chen, Yu, Kaharudin Dimyati, Irfan Anjum Badruddin, Sarfaraz Kamangar, & Sulaiman Wadi Harun. (2023). All-fiber Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser generation with SMF-SIMF-SMF structure as artificial saturable absorber. Infrared Physics & Technology. 136. 105088–105088. 2 indexed citations

Sheng, Lijuan, Yu Chen, Zhiyou Zhang, et al.. (2023). Photonic spin Hall effect: Physics, manipulations, and applications. Progress in Quantum Electronics. 91-92. 100484–100484. 26 indexed citations

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Song, Jun, et al.. (2023). Visible-Light-Activated Carbon Dot Photocatalyst for ROS-Mediated Inhibition of Algae Growth. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(17). 13509–13509. 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Guoyuan, et al.. (2023). One-dimensional structure reparameterized convolutional neural network for two-phase image reconstruction based on ERT. Measurement Science and Technology. 34(10). 105402–105402. 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Yu, et al.. (2023). Cooperation between Coherent Control and Noises in Quantum Metrology. Advanced Quantum Technologies. 6(5).

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Tan, Sin Jin, et al.. (2023). Polarization Modulator using MXene Coated Side Polished Fiber. 348–351. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Yu, et al.. (2023). Information scrambling of the dilute Bose gas at low temperature. Physical review. B.. 107(5). 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ningning, Yu Chen, Yichi Zhang, et al.. (2023). Photoresponse Enhancement in Ge MSM Photodetector With Ge Micropillar Array. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 70(2). 612–618. 6 indexed citations

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Sheng, Lijuan, Xinxing Zhou, Yuhan Zhong, et al.. (2022). Exotic Photonic Spin Hall Effect from a Chiral Interface. Laser & Photonics Review. 17(2). 30 indexed citations

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Lin, Shuai, Maoxin Li, Guangyou Liu, et al.. (2022). Experimental demonstration of weak chirality enhancement by hybrid perovskite nanocrystals using photonic spin Hall effect. Nanophotonics. 11(18). 4245–4251. 9 indexed citations

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Xie, Linguo, et al.. (2021). Weak measurements of the waist of an arbitrarily polarized beam via in-plane spin splitting. Optics Express. 29(6). 8777–8777. 8 indexed citations

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Sheng, Lijuan, Linguo Xie, Jingjing Sun, et al.. (2019). Tunable in-plane and transverse spin angular shifts in layered dielectric structure. Optics Express. 27(22). 32722–32722. 10 indexed citations

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Fang, Yuanyuan, et al.. (2018). Frequency selected coherent optical storage based on electromagnetically induced transparency in rubidium vapor. Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 52(2). 25502–25502. 3 indexed citations

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