 Publication Highlights ✎Ying Li, Yunhui Gao, Shuhe Zhang, and Liangcai Cao, "Parallel consensus optimization for high-accuracy and robust lensless imaging," Opt. Lett. 51, 3777-3780 (2026). [PAPER] ✎Yuchen Ma, Guangwei Hu, and Liangcai Cao, Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Robust Inverse Design of Nonlocal Thin Films. Laser & Photonics Reviews, e71366 (2026). [PAPER][CODE] ✎Yiqian Yang, Yunhui Gao, and Liangcai Cao, "Axial localization enabled by quantum correlations," Applied Physics Letters, 128, 241101 (2026). [PAPER] ✎Jinwen Wei and Liangcai Cao. Compact Neural Pancake Camera for High-Perceptual-Quality Foveated Imaging. ACS Photonics, 2026, 13(12), 3490–3500. [PAPER][CODE] ✎Chengwei Zhang, Yating Chen, Kaiwei Wang, and Liangcai Cao, "BPCRNet: Bidirectional polarization-color rectification network for high-fidelity polarization image demosaicking," Optics and Lasers in Engineering 204, 109852 (2026). [PAPER] ✎Yiqian Yang, Yunhui Gao, Jiachen Wu, and Liangcai Cao, “Coincidence Counting of Quantum Gabor Holography.” Laser & Photonics Reviews, e71223 (2026). [PAPER] ✎Qiushuang Lian, Cilong Zhang, Qiaofeng Tan, Jun Zhu, and Liangcai Cao, "Incoherent superresolution via diffraction-based Hermite–Gaussian imaging," Optica 13, 876-883 (2026). [PAPER] ✎Yuchen Ma, Wen Xiong, Peng Zhang, Shangjie Yu, and Liangcai Cao, "Eye tracking with a diffractive AR waveguide," Optics Letters 51, 2732-2735 (2026).[PAPER] ✎Zewen Ma, Jinwen Wei, Juergen W Czarske, Jiachen Wu, Liangcai Cao. SGARNet: a deep artifact removal approach for lensless multi-core fiber imaging[J]. Light: Advanced Manufacturing 7, 50(2026). [PAPER[[CODE] ✎Zijie Zhao, Yanbo Zhao,Yuan Xu, Juan Liu, Qiaofeng Tan, Liangcai Cao, "Large-depth-range dual-color π-phase-shifted fringe projection based on sinusoidal phase grating," Optics & Laser Technology 201, 115296 (2026). [PAPER] ✎Kexuan Liu, Wenqi Ouyang, Chuxian Chen, Jiachen Wu, Liangcai Cao, Shih-Chi Chen, "Model-Driven Deep Learning EnablesSpeckle-Free Holography for 3DParallel Nanofabrication," Research 9, 1159(2026). [PAPER] ✎Yunhui Gao, Liangcai Cao, and Din Ping Tsai, "Single-shot, reference-less computational wavefront sensing for complex optical fields," Light: Science & Applications 15, 174 (2026). [PAPER][CODE] ✎Yating Chen and Liangcai Cao, "Polarization-guided diffusion prior for eyeglass reflection removal," Opto-Electronic Advances 9, 250249 (2026). [PAPER][CODE] ✎Churan Han, Qiaofeng Tan, Dun Liu, Hao Tu, Yunhui Gao, and Liangcai Cao, "Wavefront sensorless flat-top beam shaping with multi-stage ASPGD," Optics and Lasers in Engineering 201, 109704 (2026). [PAPER] ✎Yixin Yang and Liangcai Cao, "Optimized mask design for inverse lithography via level-set normalized gradient descent," Optics Communications 608, 133038 (2026). [PAPER]
✎Yunhui Gao and Liangcai Cao, "Model-based deep learning enables time-resolved computational microscopy," PhotoniX 7, 3 (2026). [PAPER][CODE]
✎Yumei Li, Shuhe Zhang, Hongyuan Wang, Liangcai Cao. Spatial Photometric Information Prediction Based on BP Neural Network. Optics Express 2025, 33(22), 45631-45643. [PAPER]
✎Xinyu Liu and Liangcai Cao, "A dual-camera coded aperture snapshot spectral imager using a reflective mask," Optics and Lasers in Engineering 200, 109600 (2026). [PAPER]
❉ 05-2026, Liangcai Cao, Yunhui Gao, Yixin Yang, Jinwen Wei, Qiushuang Lian, Ying Li attended Light: Sino-Italian Photonics Forum 2026 held in Maratea, Italy. ❉ 04-2026, Yunhui Gao, Yixin Yang, Jinwen Wei, Qiushuang Lian, Ying Li attended GRC held in Luca, Italy. ❉ 10-2025, Yunhui Gao received the Student Award of ISOM'25. ❉ 10-2025, Liangcai Cao, Yunhui Gao, Qiushuang Lian, Ying Li, and Mengran Zhao attended ISOM'25 held in Utsunomiya, Japan. ❉ 10-2025, Yunhui Gao received the Best Poster Award at SPIE ABC, held in Jeju, South Korea. ❉ 06-2025, Jiachen Wu delivered presentation at SPIE Digital Optical Technologies. ❉ 06-2025, Shuehe Zhang delivered presentation at SPIE Optical Metrology. ❉ 01-2025, Yunhui Gao delivered presentations at SPIE Photonics West 2025. ❉ 11-2024, Liangcai Cao has been listed in Clarivate's Highly Cited Researcher list for 2024 ❉ 12-2023, Kexuan Liu received the ESI highly cited paper for the paper entitled "4K-DMDNet: diffraction model-driven network for 4K computer-generated holography". ❉ 10-2023, Yiqian Yang received the outstanding oral presentation at Advanced Photonics Forum: Intelligent Photonics. ❉ 10-2023，Liangcai Cao, Jiachen Wu, Zhengzhong Huang, Kexuan Liu, Yiqian Yang, Yuchen Ma, Fangyu Liu delivered posters and presentations at Photonics Asia 2023. ❉ 10-2023, Liangcai Cao, Jiachen Wu, Kexuan Liu, Yuchen Ma, Yiqian Yang, Fangyu Liu delivered presentations SPIE Photonics Asia 2023. ❉ 10-2023, Jiachen Wu and Yuchen Ma delivered Four presentations at OPTICA FiO 2023. ❉ 10-2023, Zhengzhong Huang won the "Qingjin" award 2023. ❉ 10-2023, Jiachen Wu and Yuchen Ma delivered presentations at FiO+LS 2023, Tacoma, America. ❉ 09-2023, Yunhui Gao went to the City University of Hong Kong as a visiting research student. ❉ 08-2023, Yunhui Gao delivered two presentations at Optica Imaging Congress 2023 and SPIE-CLP Conference on Advanced Photonics 2023. ❉ 08-2023, Yunhui Gao won the first prize at the Light Doctoral Academic League and Prof. Liangcai Cao received the outstanding mentor award. ❉ 08-2023, Kexuan Liu and Liangcai Cao delivered two oral presentations at iMiD 2023, one oral and one poster presentations at KHU-THU Workshop. ❉ 08-2023, Liangcai Cao, Yuchen Ma and Yiqian Yang delivered presentations at PGC2023, Stockholm, Sweden. ❉ 07-2023, Yiqian Yang and Danlin Xu received the outstanding oral presentation at 1st Advanced Imaging and Information Processing Conference. ❉ 07-2023, Zhengzhong Huang delivered presentations at AIIP 2023. ❉ 07-2023, Zhengzhong Huang delivered presentations at academic conference of Chinese Optical Society. ❉ 06-2023, Yiqian Yang received the outstanding poster at 9th Asia Pacific Optical Sensor Conference. ❉ 06-2023, Jiachen Wu delivered presentation at SPIE Digital Optical Technologies. ❉ 06-2023, Liangcai Cao delivered presentation at SPIE Metrology. Light Doctoral Academic League Interview Videos |