Z. Sun

9.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
78 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Z. Sun is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Z. Sun has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 62 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 19 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Z. Sun's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (64 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (42 papers) and Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (28 papers). Z. Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (64 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (42 papers) and Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics (28 papers). Z. Sun collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Finland. Z. Sun's co-authors include Andrea C. Ferrari, Fengqiu Wang, Tawfique Hasan, Felice Torrisi, D. Popa, Francesco Bonaccorso, Aleksey Rozhin, Giulia Privitera, I.H. White and Ping‐Heng Tan and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nano Letters and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Z. Sun

73 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

Graphene Mode-Locked Ultrafast Laser

2010 1.7k citations Z. Sun, Tawfique Hasan et al. ACS Nano profile →
Inkjet-Printed Graphene Electronics

2012 949 citations Felice Torrisi, Tawfique Hasan et al. ACS Nano profile →
Nanotube–Polymer Composites for Ultrafast Photonics

2009 695 citations Tawfique Hasan, Z. Sun et al. profile →
Wideband-tuneable, nanotube mode-locked, fibre laser

2008 545 citations Fengqiu Wang, Aleksey Rozhin et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Graphene Q-switched, tunable fiber laser

2011 394 citations D. Popa, Z. Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Z. Sun United Kingdom	32	5.9k	5.8k	2.4k	1.7k	556	78	8.1k
Aleksey Rozhin United Kingdom	36	3.7k 0.6×	3.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	942 0.6×	214 0.4×	142	5.2k
Y. Rosenwaks Israel	39	2.2k 0.4×	3.1k 0.5×	2.1k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	353 0.6×	183	5.1k
Xuetao Gan China	42	3.3k 0.6×	4.3k 0.8×	2.5k 1.1×	2.5k 1.5×	1.2k 2.2×	212	6.7k
Zhongyuan Sun China	19	2.9k 0.5×	3.7k 0.7×	4.1k 1.7×	3.0k 1.8×	1.2k 2.2×	37	7.5k
Xin Guo China	34	2.2k 0.4×	3.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	750 1.3×	156	4.9k
Melinda Han United States	11	2.2k 0.4×	3.1k 0.5×	6.4k 2.7×	1.6k 1.0×	511 0.9×	13	6.9k
A. I. Tartakovskii United Kingdom	39	4.3k 0.7×	3.0k 0.5×	3.9k 1.6×	1.7k 1.0×	435 0.8×	143	7.4k
Jouni Ahopelto Finland	35	1.7k 0.3×	1.9k 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	307 0.6×	144	3.6k
Long Ju United States	23	3.5k 0.6×	3.2k 0.6×	3.9k 1.7×	4.3k 2.5×	2.4k 4.4×	40	8.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Xiaobin, Z. Sun, Z. P. Mao, et al.. (2025). Evaluation method of rooftop photovoltaic resources of distributed buildings based on the fusion of ResFAUnet and MAS-PointMLP. Energy and Buildings. 337. 115680–115680. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Hong, et al.. (2025). 20-GHz bandwidth optical activation function based on a semiconductor laser. Optics Letters. 50(18). 5805–5805.

Singh, Neetesh, Milan Sinobad, Jan Lorenzen, et al.. (2023). CMOS-compatible high energy passively Q-switched laser. STu4P.2–STu4P.2. 1 indexed citations

Zaugg, C. A., Valentin J. Wittwer, Z. Sun, et al.. (2014). Graphene modelocked VECSELs. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8966. 896607–896607.

Hasan, Tawfique, Z. Sun, Ping‐Heng Tan, et al.. (2014). Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes for Wide-Band, Ultrafast Pulse Generation. ACS Nano. 8(5). 4836–4847. 68 indexed citations

Brown, G., Stephen J. Beecher, Felice Torrisi, et al.. (2013). 1.5 GHz picosecond pulse generation from a monolithic waveguide laser with a graphene-film saturable output coupler.. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 101 indexed citations

Liu, Xueming, Dongdong Han, Z. Sun, et al.. (2013). Versatile multi-wavelength ultrafast fiber laser mode-locked by carbon nanotubes. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 2718–2718. 295 indexed citations

Wang, Fengqiu, Zhe Jiang, Z. Sun, et al.. (2012). Dual-wavelength, carbon nanotube mode-locked fiber laser. 505–506. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Fengqiu, Zhe Jiang, Tawfique Hasan, et al.. (2012). Double-wall carbon nanotube Q-switched and mode-locked two-micron fiber lasers. CF1N.4–CF1N.4. 7 indexed citations

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Beecher, Stephen J., G. Brown, Z. Sun, et al.. (2012). Q-switched modelocking using carbon nanotubes in an ultrafast laser inscribed ytterbium doped bismuthate glass waveguide laser. T3B.3–T3B.3. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Fengqiu, Felice Torrisi, Zhe Jiang, et al.. (2012). Graphene passively Q-switched two-micron fiber lasers. JW2A.72–JW2A.72. 25 indexed citations

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Castellani, Carlos E. S., E. J. R. Kelleher, John C. Travers, et al.. (2011). Ultrafast Raman laser mode-locked by nanotubes. Optics Letters. 36(20). 3996–3996. 57 indexed citations

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Sun, Z., Aleksey Rozhin, Fengqiu Wang, et al.. (2009). Ultrafast Erbium-doped Fiber Laser Mode-locked by a Carbon Nanotube Saturable Absorber. CML5–CML5. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Fengqiu, Aleksey Rozhin, Vittorio Scardaci, et al.. (2008). Wideband-tuneable, nanotube mode-locked, fibre laser. Nature Nanotechnology. 3(12). 738–742. 545 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Fengqiu, Aleksey Rozhin, Z. Sun, et al.. (2008). Fabrication, characterization and mode locking application of single-walled carbon nanotube/polymer composite saturable absorbers. International Journal of Material Forming. 1(2). 26 indexed citations

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Sun, Z., et al.. (2007). Widely tunable picosecond optical parametric generation and amplification in BiB3O6. Optics Express. 15(7). 4139–4139. 18 indexed citations

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Geng, Aicong, Yong Bo, Yong Bi, et al.. (2005). One hundred and twenty one W green laser generation from a diode-side-pumped Nd:YAG laser by use of a dual-V-shaped configuration. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 44(6). 589–596. 15 indexed citations

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Peng, Qinjun, et al.. (2005). Efficient improvement of laser beam quality by coherent combining in an improved Michelson cavity. Optics Letters. 30(12). 1485–1485. 24 indexed citations

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Bao, Zhenan, Jie Zhang, Z. Sun, et al.. (2004). High-power nanosecond optical parametric oscillator based on a long LiB3O5 crystal. Optics Communications. 232(1-6). 411–415. 27 indexed citations

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Sun, Z., Ruining Li, Yong Bi, et al.. (2004). Generation of 11.5 W coherent red-light by intra-cavity frequency-doubling of a side-pumped Nd:YAG laser in a 4-cm LBO. Optics Communications. 241(1-3). 167–172. 30 indexed citations

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