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78
Citations
28984
World Ranking
3144
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1503

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2013 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2007 - OSA Fellows For groundbreaking experimental studies of coherent light generation and transport in disordered media, including the invention of microlasers.
  • 2006 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, American Physical Society
  • 2006 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the invention of microlasers based on disordered media, and other groundbreaking experimental studies coherent light generation and transport in disordered media
  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Hui Cao is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering, with a particular focus on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Acoustics and Ultrasonics, Artificial Intelligence, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Random lasers and scattering media
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies
  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics

Hui Cao has published extensively, contributing to various journals and conferences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Nature Physics
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Shaping the propagation of light in complex media, 2022, Nature Physics
  • Roadmap on wavefront shaping and deep imaging in complex media, 2022, Journal of Physics Photonics
  • Roadmap on structured waves, 2023, Journal of Optics
  • Controlling light propagation in multimode fibers for imaging, spectroscopy, and beyond, 2023, Advances in Optics and Photonics
  • Deep learning of ultrafast pulses with a multimode fiber, 2020, APL Photonics

Throughout their career, Hui Cao has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Hasan Yılmaz, Alexey Yamilov, Nicholas Bender, Kyungduk Kim, and Yaniv Eliezer.

The scientist has received multiple awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2013
  • OSA Fellow, 2007, for groundbreaking experimental studies of coherent light generation and transport in disordered media, including the invention of microlasers
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2006, recognized for the invention of microlasers based on disordered media and other experimental studies of coherent light generation and transport in disordered media
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award from the American Physical Society, 2006
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2000

Best Publications

  • Random laser action in semiconductor powder

    H. Cao;Y. G. Zhao;Seng-Tiong Ho;E. W. Seelig

  • Unidirectional invisibility induced by PT-symmetric periodic structures.

    Zin Lin;Hamidreza Ramezani;Toni Eichelkraut;Tsampikos Kottos

  • Coherent perfect absorbers: Time-reversed lasers

    Y. D. Chong;Li Ge;Hui Cao;A. D. Stone

  • Speckle-free laser imaging using random laser illumination

    Brandon Redding;Michael A. Choma;Hui Cao

  • Spatial confinement of laser light in active random media

    H. Cao;J. Y. Xu;D. Z. Zhang;Shih-hui Chang

  • Growth mechanism and properties of ZnO nanorods synthesized by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition

    Xiang Liu;Xiaohua Wu;Hui Cao;R. P. H. Chang

  • Time-reversed lasing and interferometric control of absorption.

    Wenjie Wan;Yidong Chong;Li Ge;Heeso Noh

  • Ultraviolet lasing in resonators formed by scattering in semiconductor polycrystalline films

    H. Cao;Y. G. Zhao;H. C. Ong;Seng-Tiong Ho

  • Lasing in random media

    Hui Cao

  • Dielectric microcavities: Model systems for wave chaos and non-Hermitian physics

    Hui Cao;Jan Wiersig

  • Compact spectrometer based on a disordered photonic chip

    Brandon Redding;Seng Fatt Liew;Raktim Sarma;Hui Cao

  • Biomimetic isotropic nanostructures for structural coloration.

    Jason D. Forster;Heeso Noh;Seng Fatt Liew;Vinodkumar Saranathan

  • Review on latest developments in random lasers with coherent feedback

    Hui Cao

  • Microlaser made of disordered media

    H. Cao;J. Y. Xu;E. W. Seelig;R. P. H. Chang

  • Transition from amplified spontaneous emission to laser action in strongly scattering media

    Hui Cao;J. Y. Xu;Shih-Hui Chang;Seong-Tiong Ho

  • Self-assembled 3D photonic crystals from ZnO colloidal spheres

    Eric W. Seelig;Betty Tang;Alexey Yamilov;Hui Cao

  • How Noniridescent Colors Are Generated by Quasi‐ordered Structures of Bird Feathers

    Heeso Noh;Seng Fatt Liew;Vinodkumar Saranathan;Simon G. J. Mochrie

  • All-fiber spectrometer based on speckle pattern reconstruction

    Brandon Redding;Sebastien M Popoff;Hui Cao

  • Semiconductor Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

    喜久 山本;F. Tassone;H. Cao

  • Photon statistics of random lasers with resonant feedback.

    H. Cao;Y. Ling;J. Y. Xu;C. Q. Cao

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert P. H. Chang
Robert P. H. Chang Northwestern University
Qinghai Song
Qinghai Song Harbin Institute of Technology
Richard O. Prum
Richard O. Prum Yale University
Marlan O. Scully
Marlan O. Scully Texas A&M University
Qi Jie Wang
Qi Jie Wang Nanyang Technological University
Simon G. J. Mochrie
Simon G. J. Mochrie Yale University
Luca Dal Negro
Luca Dal Negro Boston University
Seng-Tiong Ho
Seng-Tiong Ho Northwestern University
Vladimir M. Shalaev
Vladimir M. Shalaev Purdue University West Lafayette

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