2026 Hui Cao: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	78	3144	2987	1503	1400	494	28984

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Physics

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28984

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

2162
Citations
Unidirectional invisibility induced by PT-symmetric periodic structures.

Zin Lin;Hamidreza Ramezani;Toni Eichelkraut;Tsampikos Kottos

2024
Citations
Coherent perfect absorbers: Time-reversed lasers

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

1394
Citations
Speckle-free laser imaging using random laser illumination

Brandon Redding;Michael A. Choma;Hui Cao

1018
Citations
Spatial confinement of laser light in active random media

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

933
Citations
Growth mechanism and properties of ZnO nanorods synthesized by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition

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

920
Citations
Time-reversed lasing and interferometric control of absorption.

Wenjie Wan;Yidong Chong;Li Ge;Heeso Noh

865
Citations
Ultraviolet lasing in resonators formed by scattering in semiconductor polycrystalline films

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

711
Citations
Lasing in random media

Hui Cao

667
Citations
Dielectric microcavities: Model systems for wave chaos and non-Hermitian physics

Hui Cao;Jan Wiersig

646
Citations
Compact spectrometer based on a disordered photonic chip

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

575
Citations
Biomimetic isotropic nanostructures for structural coloration.

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

444
Citations
Review on latest developments in random lasers with coherent feedback

Hui Cao

400
Citations
Microlaser made of disordered media

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

372
Citations
Transition from amplified spontaneous emission to laser action in strongly scattering media

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

312
Citations
Self-assembled 3D photonic crystals from ZnO colloidal spheres

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

306
Citations
How Noniridescent Colors Are Generated by Quasi‐ordered Structures of Bird Feathers

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

295
Citations
All-fiber spectrometer based on speckle pattern reconstruction

Brandon Redding;Sebastien M Popoff;Hui Cao

288
Citations
Semiconductor Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

喜久山本;F. Tassone;H. Cao

282
Citations
Photon statistics of random lasers with resonant feedback.

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

276
Citations