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D-Index
63
Citations
16926
World Ranking
1738
National Ranking
562

Chris Xu publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chris Xu sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 319 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Chris Xu D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chris Xu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Chris Xu is a researcher affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their academic contributions primarily span the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Engineering.

Their research often intersects with several subfields, including:

  • Biophysics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

The topics that dominate their body of work focus on advanced imaging and microscopy techniques, notably:

  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications

Chris Xu has contributed research articles to several key scientific journals and conferences. Frequent venues of publication include:

  • Biomedical Optics Express
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Optics Letters
  • The Journal of Immunology

Some recent papers by Chris Xu include:

  • "Roadmap on wavefront shaping and deep imaging in complex media," 2022, Journal of Physics Photonics
  • "Three-photon neuronal imaging in deep mouse brain," 2020, Optica
  • "Multicolor three-photon fluorescence imaging with single-wavelength excitation deep in mouse brain," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Quantitative analysis of 1300-nm three-photon calcium imaging in the mouse brain," 2020, eLife
  • "Deep three-photon imaging of the brain in intact adult zebrafish," 2020, Nature Methods

Their frequent collaborators have included the following researchers, each contributing to multiple publications:

  • Tianyu Wang
  • Dimitre G. Ouzounov
  • Fei Xia
  • Najva Akbari
  • Chunyan Wu

Best Publications

  • In vivo three-photon microscopy of subcortical structures within an intact mouse brain

    Nicholas G. Horton;Ke Wang;Demirhan Kobat;Catharine G. Clark

  • Multiphoton fluorescence excitation: New spectral windows for biological nonlinear microscopy

    Chris Xu;Warren Zipfel;Jason B. Shear;Rebecca M. Williams

  • Deep tissue multiphoton microscopy using longer wavelength excitation.

    Demirhan Kobat;Michael E. Durst;Nozomi Nishimura;Angela W. Wong

  • Recent advances in fibre lasers for nonlinear microscopy

    C. Xu;F. W. Wise

  • In vivo two-photon microscopy to 1.6-mm depth in mouse cortex

    Demirhan Kobat;Nicholas G. Horton;Chris Xu

  • Simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing of femtosecond pulses.

    Guanghao Zhu;James van Howe;Michael Durst;Warren Zipfel

  • Nanotools for Neuroscience and Brain Activity Mapping

    A. Paul Alivisatos;Anne M. Andrews;Edward S. Boyden;Miyoung Chun

  • Soliton self-frequency shift in a short tapered air-silica microstructure fiber.

    X. Liu;C. Xu;W. H. Knox;J. K. Chandalia

  • 2.5 Tb/s (64/spl times/42.7 Gb/s) transmission over 40/spl times/100 km NZDSF using RZ-DPSK format and all-Raman-amplified spans

    A.H. Gnauck;G. Raybon;S. Chandrasekhar;J. Leuthold

  • Single-molecule detection by two-photon-excited fluorescence

    J. Mertz;C. Xu;W. W. Webb

  • Differential phase-shift keying for high spectral efficiency optical transmissions

    C. Xu;Xiang Liu;Xing Wei

  • Three-photon imaging of mouse brain structure and function through the intact skull.

    Tianyu Wang;Dimitre G. Ouzounov;Chunyan Wu;Nicholas G. Horton

  • Compact and flexible raster scanning multiphoton endoscope capable of imaging unstained tissue.

    David R. Rivera;Christopher M. Brown;Dimitre G. Ouzounov;Ina Pavlova

  • All-optical, wavelength and bandwidth preserving, pulse delay based on parametric wavelength conversion and dispersion.

    Jay E. Sharping;Yoshitomo Okawachi;James van Howe;Chris Xu

  • Multiphoton Excitation of Molecular Fluorophores and Nonlinear Laser Microscopy

    Chris Xu;Watt W. Webb

  • Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex

    J. Alexander Bae;Mahaly Baptiste;Agnes L. Bodor

  • Ultrafast optical signal processing based upon space-time dualities

    J. van Howe;C. Xu

  • Roadmap on Wavefront Shaping and deep imaging in complex media.

    Sylvain Gigan;Ori Katz;Hilton B. de Aguiar;Esben Ravn Andresen

  • Generation of intense 100 fs solitons tunable from 2 to 43 μm in fluoride fiber

    Yuxing Tang;Logan G. Wright;Kriti Charan;Tianyu Wang

  • Soliton Self-Frequency Shift: Experimental Demonstrations and Applications

    J.H. Lee;J. van Howe;C. Xu;Xiang Liu

  • Postnonlinearity compensation with data-driven phase modulators in phase-shift keying transmission.

    Chris Xu;Xiang Liu

  • Three-photon neuronal imaging in deep mouse brain

    Tianyu Wang;Chris Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiang Liu
Xiang Liu Nanjing Tech University
Wayne H. Knox
Wayne H. Knox University of Rochester
Lars Gruner-Nielsen
Lars Gruner-Nielsen Technical University of Denmark
Frank W. Wise
Frank W. Wise Cornell University
Alexander L. Gaeta
Alexander L. Gaeta Columbia University
Yoshitomo Okawachi
Yoshitomo Okawachi Columbia University
Yitang Dai
Yitang Dai Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Benjamin J. Eggleton
Benjamin J. Eggleton University of Sydney
Charles P. Lin
Charles P. Lin Harvard University

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