[50]: Dmitrii Shymkiv, Zhongyuan Wang, Brigham Thornock, Aiden Karpf, Camila Nunez, Yuzhe Xiao, “Accurate Depth-Resolved Temperature Profiling via Thermal-Radiation Spectroscopy: Numerical Methods vs Machine Learning”, Optics Express 33, 18, 39117 (2025) (highlighted as an Editor's Pick) [preprint]

[49]: William B. Derdeyn, Jonathan L. King, Mohamed Elbakhshwan, Zahabul Islam, Yuzhe Xiao, Chunhui Yao, Raluca O. Scarlat, Mikhail A. Kats, Mark H. Anderson, “Emissivity of post-corrosion stainless steel 316 exposed to FLiBe molten salt in a non-isothermal flow loop”, Journal of Nuclear Materials 2025 

[48]: Demeng Feng, Tanuj Kumar, Shenwei Yin, Merlin Mah, Phyo Lin, Margaret Fortman, Gabriel R. Jaffe, Chenghao Wan, Hongyan Mei, Yuzhe Xiao, Ron Synowicki, Ronald J. Warzoha, Victor W. Brar, Joseph J. Talghader, Mikhail A. Kats, “Self-referencing photothermal common-path interferometry to measure absorption of Si3N4 membranes for laser-light sails”,ACS photonics 12 (11), 6381-6387 (2025)  [preprint]

[47]: Yuzhe Xiao, Linipun Phuttitarn, Trent Michael Graham, Chenghao Wan, Mark Saffman, Mikhail A. Kats, “Lateral beam shifts and depolarization upon oblique reflection from dielectric mirrors”, Annalen der Physik 2024  [preprint]

[46]: Tiancheng Wang, Yuzhe Xiao, Jonathan L. King, Mikhail A. Kats, Kathleen J. Stebe, and Daeyeon Lee, “Bioinspired Switchable Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling Coatings”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2023

[45]: Chunhui Yao, Hongyan Mei, Yuzhe Xiao, Alireza Shahsafi, Will Derdeyn, Jonanthon L. King, Chenghao Wan, Raluca O. Scarlat, Mark H. Anderson, Mikhail A. Kats, “Correcting thermal-emission-induced detector saturation in infrared spectroscopy”,Optics Express 30, 38458 (2022) [preprint]

[44]: Jonathan King, Alireza Shahsafi, Zhen Zhang, Chenghao Wan, Yuzhe Xiao, Chengzi Huang, Yifei Sun, Patrick J. Roney, Shriram Ramanathan, Mikhail A. Kats, "Wavelength-by-wavelength temperature-independent thermal radiation utilizing an insulator-metal transition", ACS Photonics 9, 2742 (2022) [preprint]

[43]: Hongyan Mei, Alexander Koch, Chenghao Wan, Jura Rensberg, Zhen Zhang, Jad Salman, Martin Hafermann, Yuzhe Xiao, Raymond Wambold, Shriram Ramanathan, Carsten Ronning, Mikhail A. Kats, “Tuning carrier density and phase transitions in oxide semiconductors using focused ion beams”, Nanophotonics 11, 3923 (2022) [preprint]

[42]: Yuzhe Xiao, Matthew Sheldon, and Mikhail A. Kats, "Super-Planckian emission cannot really be ‘thermal’", Nat. Photonics 16, 397-401 (2022) 

[41]: Demeng Feng, Raymond A. Wambold, Yuzhe Xiao, Chenghao Wan, Zhaoning Yu, Victor W. Brar, and Mikhail A. Kats,"Comment on “Electromagnetic force on structured metallic surfaces”", Phys. Rev. B 105, 207401 (2022)

[40]: Yuzhe  Xiao, Mikhail A. Kats, Jean-Jacques Greffet, Qiang Li, and Georgia T. Papadakis, “Materials and Devices for Engineering of Thermal Light: feature issue introduction”, Opt. Mater. Express 12, 4, 1450 (2022)

[39]: Chenghao Wan, David Woolf, Colin M Hessel, Jad Salman, Yuzhe Xiao, Chunhui Yao, Albert Wright, Joel M Hensley, Mikhail A Kats, "Switchable induced-transmission filters enabled by vanadium dioxide", Nano Lett. 22, 1, 6-13 (2022) [preprint]

[38]: Yuzhe Xiao, Chenghao Wan, Jad Salman, Ian J. Maywar, Jonathan King, Alireza Shahsafi, Mikhail A Kats, " Planck spectroscopy", Laser & Photonics Reviews 202100121 (2021) [preprint] (Cover article, WARF Innovation Awards Finalist)

[37]: Yuzhe Xiao, Zhaoning Yu, Raymond A. Wambold, Hongyan Mei, Garrett Hickman, Randall H. Goldsmith, Mark Saffman, Mikhail A Kats, " Efficient generation of optical bottle beams", Nanophotonics 10 (11), 2893 (2021) [preprint]

[36]: Chenghao Wan, Zhen Zhang, Jad Salman, Jonathan King, Yuzhe Xiao, Alireza Shahsafi, Raymond Wambold, Shriram Ramanathan, Mikhail A. Kats, "Ultrathin broadband reflective optical limiter", Laser & Photonics Reviews 202100001 (2021) (Cover article) [preprint]

[35]: Jad Salman, Cayla A Stifler, Alireza Shahsafi, Chang-Yu Sun, Steve Weibel, Michel Frising, Bryan E Rubio-Perez, Yuzhe Xiao, Christopher Draves, Raymond A Wambold, Zhaoning Yu, Daniel C Bradley, Gabor Kemeny, Pupa UPA Gilbert, Mikhail A Kats, "Hyperspectral interference tomography of nacre", PNAS 118 (15), e2023623118 (2021) [preprint]

[34]: Jifang Rong, Hua Yang, Yuzhe Xiao, Yufang Chen, “Mutual manipulation between a dark soliton and a probe wave for the gray-dark solitonic well”, Physical Review A 103, 023505 (2021) 

[33]: Raymond A. Wambold, Zhaoning Yu, Yuzhe Xiao, Benjamin Bachman, Gabriel Jaffe, Shimon Kolkowitz, Jennifer T. Choy, Mark Eriksson, Robert J. Hamers, Mikhail A. Kats, "Adjoint-optimized nanoscale light extractor for nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond", Nanophotonics 10 (1), 393-401 (2020) [preprint]

[32]: Alireza Shahsafi, Jad Salman, Bryan E. Rubio, Yuzhe Xiao, Chenghao Wan, Mikhail A Kats ," Infrared polarizer based on direct coupling to surface-plasmon polaritons", Nano Lett. 20 (12), 8483-8486 (2020) [preprint]

[31] Yuzhe Xiao, Chenghao Wan, Alireza Shahsafi, Jad Salman, Zhaoning Yu, Raymond Wambold, Hongyan Mei, Bryan E. Rubio, William Derdeyn, Chunhui Yao, and Mikhail A. Kats, “Precision measurements of temperature-dependent and nonequilibrium thermal emitters ”, Laser & Photonics Reviews 201900443 (2020) [preprint]

[30] Jifang Rong, Hua Yang, Yuzhe Xiao, "Accurately Shaping Supercontinuum Spectrum via Cascaded PCF", Sensors, 20 (9), 2478 (2020)

[29]  Yuzhe Xiao, Chenghao Wan, Alireza Shahsafi, Jad Salman, and Mikhail A Kats, “Depth thermography: non-invasive 3D temperature profiling using infrared thermal emission”, ACS Photonics 7, 853-860  (2020) [preprint] (news covered by Optics & Photonics News; Science Daily; Phys.org)

[28] Zhaoning Yu, Chenghao Wan, Jad Salman, Bradley S. Gundlach, Yuzhe Xiao, Zongfu Yu, and Mikhail A. Kats, “Multi-refractive-index metamaterials based on subwavelength waveguide arrays”, J. Phys. D 53, 015108 (2020) [preprint]

[27] Tonglei Cheng, Yuzhe Xiao, Shuguang Li, Xin Yan, Xuenan Zhang, Takenobu Suzuki, and Yasutake Ohishi, "Highly efficient second harmonic generation in a tellurite optical fiber", Opt. Lett. 44, 4686-4689 (2019)

[26] Saili Zhao, Hua Yang,Ying Huang, and Yuzhe Xiao, “Generation of tunable ultra-short pulse sequences in a quasi-discrete spectral supercontinuum by dark solitons.” Opt. Express 27,16, 23539-23548 (2019)

[25] Alireza Shahsafi, Graham Joe, Soeren Brandt, Anna V Shneidman, Nicholas Stanisic, Yuzhe Xiao, Raymond Wambold, Zhaoning Yu, Jad Salman, Joanna Aizenberg, Mikhail A Kats ," Wide-angle spectrally selective absorbers and thermal emitters based on inverse opals",  ACS Photonics 6, 11, 2607 (2019) [preprint]

[24] Saili Zhao, Hua Yang, Yuzhe Xiao, and Hui Hu “Generation of spectral wings and temporal ultra-short pulse sequence.” EPL (Europhysics Lettters), 125, 2, 24002 (2019). 

[23] Yuzhe Xiao, Nicholas A. Charipar, Jad Salman, Alberto Piqué, and Mikhail A. Kats, “Nanosecond mid-infrared pulse generation via modulated emissivity”,  Light: Sci. Appl. 8,1,51 (2019) (Cover article, Highlighted in Light: Sci. Appl.) [preprint]

[22] Denis G. Baranov*, Yuzhe Xiao*, Igor A. Nechepurenko, Alex Krasnok, Andrea Alù, and Mikhail A. Kats, “Nanophotonic engineering of far-field thermal emitters", Nat. Materials,18, 920-930 (2019) (*equal contribution) [preprint]

[21] Alireza Shahsafi, Patrick Roney, You Zhou, Zhen Zhang, Yuzhe Xiao, Chenghao Wan, Raymond Wambold, Jad Salman, Zhaoning Yu, Jiarui Li, Jerzy T Sadowski, Riccardo Comin, Shriram Ramanathan, Mikhail A Kats "Temperature-independent thermal radiation" PNAS 116 (52), 26402-26406 (2019) [preprint]

[20] Chenghao Wan, Zhen Zhang, David Woolf, Colin M. Hessel, Jura Rensberg, Joel M. Hensley, Yuzhe Xiao, Alireza Shahsafi, Jad Salman, Steffen Richter, Yifei Sun, M. Mumtaz Qazilbash, Rüdiger Schmidt-Grund, Carsten Ronning, Shriram Ramanathan, Mikhail A. Kats ,"Optical properties of thin-film vanadium dioxide from the visible to the far infrared", Ann. Phy. (Berl.) 1900188 (2019) [preprint]

[19] Yuzhe Xiao, Alireza Shahsafi, Chenghao Wan, Patrick J. Roney, Graham Joe, Zhaoning Yu, Jad Salman, and Mikhail A. Kats, “Measuring Thermal Emission Near Room Temperature Using Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy”, Phys. Rev. Appl. 11, 014026 (2019). [preprint]

[18] Saili Zhao, Hua Yang, Yilin Zhao, and Yuzhe Xiao, “Supercontinuum manipulation based on the influence of chirp on soliton spectral tunneling.” Chinese Phys. B 27 (11) (2018). 

[17] Saili Zhao, Hua Yang, and Yuzhe Xiao, “Effects of a seed pulse on rogue-wave formation for midinfrared supercontinuum generation in chalcogenide photonic crystal fibers.” Phys. Rev. A 98.4, 043817 (2018) 

[16] Alireza Shahsafi, Yuzhe Xiao, Jad Salman, Bradley S. Gundlach, Chenghao Wan, Patrick J. Roney, and Mikhail A. Kats, "Mid-infrared optics using dielectrics with refractive indices below unity", Phys. Rev. Appl. 10, 034019 (2018)  [preprint]

[15] Yuzhe Xiao, Haoliang Qian, and Zhaowei Liu. "Nonlinear Metasurface Based on Giant Optical Kerr Response of Gold Quantum Wells." ACS Photonics 5 (5), 1654-1659 (2018).

[14] Saili Zhao, Hua Yang, Chujun Zhao, and Yuzhe Xiao. "Harnessing rogue wave for supercontinuum generation in cascaded photonic crystal fiber." Opt. Express 25, 7, 7192-7202 (2017)

[13] Ying Liu, Xiaoming Yang, Chao He, Xiuzhi Li, Zujian Wang, Yuzhe Xiao, and Xifa Long, "Domain and antiferroelectric properties of Pb (Lu 1/2 Nb 1/2) O 3 single crystals and their superlattice structure." RSC Advances 7,7, 3704-3712 (2017)

[12] Haoliang Qian*, Yuzhe Xiao*, and Zhaowei Liu, "Giant Kerr response of ultrathin gold films from quantum size effect." Nat. Comm. 7, 13153 (2016) (*equal contribution)

[11] Haoliang Qian*, Yuzhe Xiao*, Dominic Lepage*, Li Chen, and Zhaowei Liu, "Quantum electrostatic model for optical properties of nanoscale gold films." Nanophotonics 4, 1, 413-418 (2015) (*equal contribution)

[10] Yuzhe Xiao, René-Jean Essiambre, Marc Desgroseilliers, Antonia M. Tulino, Roland Ryf, Sami Mumtaz, and Govind P. Agrawal, "Theory of intermodal four-wave mixing with random linear mode coupling in few-mode fibers." Opt. Express 22, 26, 32039-32059 (2014)

[9] Yuzhe Xiao, Drew N. Maywar, and Govind P. Agrawal, "Reflection and transmission of electromagnetic waves at a temporal boundary." Opt. Lett. 39, 3, 574-577 (2014)

[8] Yuzhe Xiao, Drew N. Maywar, and Govind P. Agrawal, "Time-transformation approach to pulse propagation in nonlinear dispersive media: Inclusion of delayed Raman nonlinearity." Phy. Rev. A 87, 6, 063816 (2013)

[7] Jianrong Xue, Shuguang Li, Yuzhe Xiao, Wei Qin, Xujun Xin, and Xingping Zhu, "Polarization filter characters of the gold-coated and the liquid filled photonic crystal fiber based on surface plasmon resonance." Opt. Express 21,11, 13733-13740 (2013)

[6] Yuzhe Xiao, Drew N. Maywar, and Govind P. Agrawal, "Propagation of few-cycle pulses in nonlinear Kerr media: harmonic generation." Opt. Lett. 38, 5, 724-726 (2013)

[5] Baveja, Prashant P., Yuzhe Xiao, Sumeeta Arora, Govind P. Agrawal, and Drew N. Maywar, "All-optical semiconductor optical amplifier-based wavelength converters with sub-mW pumping." IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett. 25,1, 78-80 (2013)

[4] Yuzhe Xiao, Drew N. Maywar, and Govind P. Agrawal, "New approach to pulse propagation in nonlinear dispersive optical media." JOSA B 29, 10, 2958-2963 (2012) (Top downloaded article from Oct 2012 to Feb. 2013, Featured in Spotlight on Optics, Oct. 2012).

[3] Yuzhe Xiao, Govind P. Agrawal, and Drew N. Maywar, "Nonlinear pulse propagation: A time–transformation approach." Opt. Lett. 37, 7,1271-1273 (2012)

[2] Yuzhe Xiao, Drew N. Maywar, and Govind P. Agrawal, "Optical pulse propagation in dynamic Fabry–Perot resonators." JOSA B 28, 7, 1685-1692 (2011)

[1] Yuzhe Xiao, Govind P. Agrawal, and Drew N. Maywar, "Spectral and temporal changes of optical pulses propagating through time-varying linear media." Opt. Lett. 36, 4, 505-507 (2011)