Journal Papers
LAMB Journal Publications
( * indicates correspondence; † indicates equal contribution)
Under preparation
34. [Invited Review Article] Y. Xiao, A. Zheng, X. Shu, M. Niu, Y. He, Y. Nie, S. Wei, G. Luo, Y. Wang, H. Sun, H. Chen, T. Blu, and R. Zhou*, "Pushing Physical Limits in Quantitative Phase Imaging: A Review," Journal of Physics: Photonics
33. [Review Article] Y. Xu†, N. Zhou†, A. Zheng, S. Wei, M. Niu, Y. Wang, L. Duan*, and R. Zhou*, "Recent Advances in Light Microscopy for Imaging Organelles in Live Cells," Advanced Photonics
32. [Review Article] X. Shu†, S. Xue†, Y. Xiao†, R. Sun, H. Sun, Y. He, Y. Wang, B. Ge, L. Duan, R. Pandey, K. K. Tsia, K. K. Wong, R. Zhang, C. Hu, G. Popescu, and R. Zhou*, "Recent Breakthroughs in Quantitative Phase Imaging: Artificial Intelligence, Tomography, and Biomedical Applications," Lasers & Photonics Rev.
Under review/Preprint
31. T. Wang, P. Shi, D. Luo, J. Guo, H. Liu, J. Yuan, H. Jin, X. Wu, Y. Zhang, Z. Xiong, J. Zhu, R. Zhou, and R. Zhang*, "A convenient all-cell optical imaging method compatible with serial SEM for brain mapping," Brain Sciences, under review
30. Y. Sun†, H. Zhu†, L. Yin†, H. Wu, M. Cai, W. Sun, Y. Xu, X. Yang, J. Han, Y. Han, X. Hao, R. Zhou*, C. Kuang*, and X. Liu*, "Fluorescence Interference Structured Illumination Microscopy for Volumetric Super-resolution Imaging of Living Cells," Nature Communications, under review
29. D. Lyu, W. Xu, N. Zhou, W. Duan, Z. Wang, Y. Mu, R. Zhou, and Y. Wang*, "Biomimetic Thermoresponsive Superstructures by Colloidal Soft-and-Hard Co-Assembly," Science Advances, under review
28. Q. Xiao, Y. He, M. H. Rahman, G. Cheng, R. Zhou, and Y. P. Ho*, "Quantitative Phase Deformability Cytometry for Noninvasive High-throughput Characterization of Cells," View, under review
27. X. Shu, M. Niu, Y. Zhang, and R. Zhou*, "NAS-PRNet: Neural Architecture Search generated Phase Retrieval Net for Off-axis Quantitative Phase Imaging," preprint link
26. B. Ge† , Y. He† , M. Deng† , M. H. Rahman, Y. Wang, Z. Wu, C. H. N. Wong, M. K. Chan Y. P. Ho, L. Duan, Z. Yaqoob, P. T. C. So*, G. Barbastathis*, and R. Zhou*, "Single-frame label-free cell tomography at speed of more than 10,000 volumes per second," preprint link
25. S. S. Kang, R. Zhou*, M. Brelen, H. K. Mak, P. T. C. So, and Z. Yaqoob*, "Reflection-mode optical diffraction tomography for label-free imaging of thick biological specimens," preprint link
2023
24. Y. Nie†, N. Zhou†, L. Tao, J. Zhu, Z. Gao, J. Xu, and R. Zhou*, "Transmission-matrix Quantitative Phase Profilometry for Accurate and Fast Thickness Mapping of 2D Materials," ACS Photonics, accepted; link
23. Y. He, N. Zhou, M. Ziemczonok, Y. Wang, L. Lei, L. Duan, and R. Zhou*, "Standardizing image assessment in optical diffraction tomography," Opt. Lett. 48, 395-398 (2023); link
22. G. Luo, Y. He, X. Shu, R. Zhou, and T. Blu*, "Complex Wave and Phase Retrieval from A Single Interferogram," JOSA A 40, 85-95 (2023); link
2022
21. Y. He†, Q. Shao†, S. C. Chen*, and R. Zhou*, "Characterization of Two-photon Photopolymerization Fabrication using High-speed Optical Diffraction Tomography," Additive Manufacturing 60, 103293 (2022); link
20. N. Zhou†, A. Zheng†, K. K. Y. Wong, and R. Zhou*, "High Resolution Quantitative Phase Microscopy with Second-Harmonic Generation and Structured Illumination from k-space Formulation," Physical Review Applied 18, 054028 (2022); link
19. Y. Wang†, M. Liu†, Q. Wei, W. Wu, Y. He, J. Gao, R. Zhou, L. Jiang, J. Qu, J. Xia*, "Phase-Separated Multienzyme Compartmentalization for Terpene Biosynthesis in a Prokaryote," Angewandte Chemie 61, e202203909 (2022); link
18. [Perspective Article] J. Zhu*, N. Zhao, S. Liu, S. Wei, and R. Zhou*, "Towards new forms of particle sensing and manipulation and 3D imaging on a smartphone for healthcare applications," Advanced Photonics Research 3, 2100106 (2022); link; (the article was selected to be included in the Special Issue: New Photonics Trends in Sensing (and Photovoltaics) towards IOT & E-Smart Labels)
17. J. Zhu†*, J. Liu†, T. Xu†, S. Yuan, Z. Zhang, H. Jiang, H Gu, R. Zhou, and S. Liu*, "Optical Wafer Defect Inspection at the 10 nm Technology Node and Beyond," Int. J. Extrem. Manuf. 4, 032001 (2022); link
16. M. Cai†, H. Zhu†, Y. Sun, L. Yin, F. Xu, H. Wu, X. Hao, R. Zhou, C. Kuang*, and X. Liu, "Total variation and spatial iteration-based 3D structured illumination microscopy," Opt. Express 30, 7938-7953 (2022); link
15. H. Fan, D. Luo, J. Zhu, R. L. Schalek, Z. Chen, L. Zhao, R. Zhou, M. Sun, G. Shi, Y. Xie, J. W. Lichtman, and R. Zhang*, "Optical Multi-Layer Interference Tomography Compatible with Tape-Based Serial SEM for Mesoscale Neuroanatomy," ACS Photonics 9, 25-33 (2022); link (the article was selected as a cover of the issue)
2021
14. B. Ge†, Q. Zhang†, R. Zhang, J.-T. Lin, P.-H. Tseng, C. -W. Chang, C. -Y. Dong, R. Zhou, Z. Yaqoob, I. Bischofberger, and P. T. C. So*, "Single-shot quantitative polarization imaging of complex birefringent structure dynamics," ACS Photonics 8, 3440–3447 (2021); link (the article was selected as a cover of the issue)
13. Y. Xiao, S. Wei, S. Xue, C. Kuang, A. Yang, M. Wei, H. Lin, and R. Zhou*, "High-Speed Fourier Ptychographic Microscopy for Quantitative Phase Imaging," Opt. Lett. 46, 4785-4788 (2021); link
12. C. Li, R. Zhou, W. Wang, Z. Zhan, Z. Zhang, Y. Li, Y. Li, X. Hao, C. Kuang*, and X. Liu, "Background suppression with dual modulation by saturated competition microscopy," Optics and Lasers in Engineering 147, 106750 (2021); link
11. X. Shu†, S. Sansare†, D.Jin, X. Zeng, K. Y. Tong, R. Pandey*, and R. Zhou*, "Artificial Intelligence Enabled Reagent-free Imaging Hematology Analyzer," Advanced Intelligent Systems 3, 2000277 (2021) link (paper appendix: Conference Presentation at OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences Congress 2019, Tucson, Arizona, 14–17 April 2019; The article is selected as the Inside Front Cover)
10. Y. Nie and R. Zhou*, "Beating Temporal Phase Sensitivity Limit in Off-axis Interferometry based Quantitative Phase Microscopy," APL Photonics 6, 011302 (2021); link
2020
9. C. Zheng, D. Jin, Y. He, H. Lin, J. J. Hu, Z. Yaqoob, P. T. C. So, and R. Zhou*, "High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Synthetic Aperture Phase Microscopy," Advanced Photonics 2, 065002 (2020); link (The article was featured on SPIE News, EurekAlert, ScienceDaily, Photonics Spectra, etc.)
8. M. Niu, G. Luo, X. Shu, F. Qu, S. Zhou, Y. P. Ho, N. Zhao, and R. Zhou*, "Portable Quantitative Phase Microscope for Material Metrology and Biological Imaging," Photonics Research 7, 1253-1259 (2020); link (paper appendix: Components List)
2019
7. J. Zhu, Y. Liu, X. Yu, R. Zhou, J.-M. Jin, and L. L. Goddard*, "Sensing Sub-10 nm Wide Perturbations in Background Nanopatterns Using Optical Pseudoelectrodynamics Microscopy (OPEM)," Nano. Lett. 8, 5347–5355 (2019); link
6. S. Purandare*, J. Zhu, R. Zhou, G. Popescu, A Schwing, and L. L. Goddard, "Optical inspection of nanoscale structures using a novel machine learning based synthetic image generation algorithm," Opt. Exp. 27, 17743-17762(2019); link
5. R. Pandey*, R. Zhou*, R. Bordett, C. Hunter, K. Glunde, I. Barman, T. Valdez, and C. Fincke, "Integration of Diffraction Phase Microscopy and Raman Imaging for Label-free Morpho-molecular Assessment of Live Cells," Journal of Biophotonics 12, e201800291 (2019); link
4. J. Zhu, R. Zhou, L. Zhang, B. Ge, C. Luo, and L. L. Goddard*, "Regularized pseudo-phase imaging for inspecting and sensing nanoscale features," Opt. Exp. 27, 6719-6733 (2019) link
2018
3. B. Ge†, R. Zhou†*, Y. Takiguchi, Z. Yaqoob*, and P. T. C. So, "Single-shot Optical Anisotropy Imaging with Quantitative Polarization Interference Microscopy," Laser & Photonics Rev. 12, 1800070 (2018); link
2. G. Zhao, C. Zheng, C. Kuang*, R. Zhou, M. M. Kabir, K. C. Toussaint Jr., W. Wang, L. Xu, H. Li, P. Xiu, and X. Liu*, "Nonlinear Focal Modulation Microscopy," Phys Rev. Lett. 120, 193901 (2018); link ; selected as the Cover of the Issue
1. D. Jin†, R. Zhou†*, Z. Yaqoob, and P. T. C. So, "Dynamic spatial filtering using a digital micromirror device for high-speed optical diffraction tomography," Opt. Exp. 26, 428-437 (2018); link
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2017
25. C. Zheng†, R. Zhou†, C. Kuang*, G. Zhao, Z. Zhang, and X. Liu., "Diffraction phase microscopy realized with an automatic digital pinhole," Opt. Comm. 404, 5-10 (2017). link
24. [Invited Review Article] D. Jin†, R. Zhou†*, Z. Yaqoob, and P. T. C. So, "Tomographic Phase Microscopy: Principles and Applications in Bioimaging [invited]," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B , 34, B64-B77 (2017). link
23. C. Zheng†, R. Zhou†*, C. Kuang, G. Zhao, Z. Yaqoob, and P. T. C. So, "Digital micromirror device-based common-path quantitative phase imaging," Opt. Lett., 42, 1448-1451 (2017). link
22. R. Zhou, D. Jin, P. Hosseini, V. R. Singh, Y. Kim, C. Kuang, R. R. Dasari, Z. Yaqoob, and P. T. C. So*, "Modeling the depth-sectioning effect in reflection-mode dynamic speckle-field interferometric microscopy," Opt. Express 25, 130-143 (2017). link
2016
21. Q. Liu†, Y. Fang†, R. Zhou, P. Xiu, C. Kuang, and X. Liu*, "Surface wave illumination Fourier ptychographic microscopy," Opt. Lett. 41, 5373-5376 (2016). link
20. [Invited Review Article] T. Kim†, R. Zhou†, L. L. Goddard, and G. Popescu*, "Solving scattering inverse problems in biological samples using quantitative phase imaging," Laser & Photonics Rev. 10, 13–39 (2016). link
19. C. Kuang*, Y. Ma, R. Zhou, G. Zheng, Y. Fang, Y. Xu, X. Liu*, and P. T. C. So, "Virtual k-space modulation optical nanoscopy," Phys Rev. Lett. 117, 028102 (2016). link
18. P. Hosseini, R. Zhou, Y.-H. Kim, C. Peres, A. Diaspro, C. Kuang, Z. Yaqoob, and P. T. C. So*, "Pushing phase and amplitude sensitivity limits in interferometric microscopy," Opt. Lett. 41, 1656-1659 (2016). link
2015
17. C. Kuang, Y. Ma, R. Zhou*, J. Lee, G. Barbastathis, R. R. Dasari, Z. Yaqoob, P. T. C. So,"Digital micromirror device-based laser-illumination Fourier ptychographic microscopy," Opt. Express 23, 26999-27010 (2015). link
16. S. You, C. Kuang*, K. C. Toussaint, R. Zhou, X. Xia, and X. Liu, "Iterative phase-retrieval method for generating stereo array of polarization-controlled focal spots," Opt. Lett. 40, 3532-3535 (2015). link
2014
15. R. Zhou, T. Kim, L. L. Goddard, and G. Popescu*, "Inverse scattering solutions using low-coherence light," Opt. Lett. 39, 4494-4497 (2014).link
14. G. Rajshekhar, B. Bhaduri, C. Edwards, R. Zhou, L. L. Goddard, and G. Popescu*, "Nanoscale topography and spatial light modulator characterization using wide-field quantitative phase imaging," Opt. Express 22, 3432-3438 (2014). link
13. [Invited Review Article] C. Edwards, R. Zhou, S-W. Hwang, S. J. McKeown, K. Wang, B. Bhaduri, R. Ganti, P. J. Yunker, A. G. Yodh, J. A. Rogers, L. L. Goddard, G. Popescu*, "Diffraction phase microscopy: monitoring nanoscale dynamics in materials science [invited]," Appl. Opt (Special Issue on Digital Holography), 53, G33 (2014). link
12. [Invited Review Article] T. Kim†, R. Zhou†, L. L. Goddard, and G. Popescu*, "Quantitative phase imaging: when metrology meets biology," IEEE Photonics Journal 6, 0700909 (2014). link
11. [Invited Review Article] B. Bhaduri, C. Edwards, H. Pham, R. Zhou, L. L. Goddard, and G. Popescu*, "Diffraction phase microscopy: principles and applications in materials and life sciences," Adv. Opt. Photon. 6, 57-119 (2014). link
10. T. Kim†, R. Zhou†, M. Mir, S. D. Babacan, P. S. Carney, L. L. Goddard, and G. Popescu*, "White light diffraction tomography of unlabelled live cells," Nat. Photon. 8, 256-263 (2014). link
2013
9. T. Kim, R. Zhu, T. H. Nguyen, R. Zhou, C. Edwards, L. L. Goddard, and G. Popescu*, "Deterministic signal associated with a random field," Opt. Express 21, 20806-20820 (2013). link
8. R. Zhou, C. Edwards, A. Arbabi, G. Popescu, and L. L. Goddard*, "Detecting 20 nm Wide Defects in Large Area Nanopatterns Using Optical Interferometric Microscopy," Nano Letters 13 (8), 3716-3721 (2013). link
7. C. Edwards, K. Wang, R. Zhou, G. Popescu, and L. L. Goddard*, "Digital projection photochemical etching defines gray-scale features," Opt. Express 21, 13547-13554 (2013). link
2012
6. R. Zhou, W. Shi*, E. B. Petersen, A. Chavez-Pirson, M. Stephen, and N. Peyghambarian, "Transform-Limited, Injection Seeded, Q-Switched, Ring Cavity Fiber Laser," J. Lightwave Technol. 30, 2589-2595 (2012). link
5. R. Zhou, Q. Zhan, P. E. Powers, B. Ibarra-Escamilla, J. W. Haus*, "An all fiber based Talbot self-imaging mirror device for phase-locking of a multi-fiber laser," J. Europ. Opt. Soc. Rap. Public. 7, 12012 (2012). link
2011
4. B. Ibarra-Escamilla, O. Pottiez, R. Zhou, Q. Zhan, P. E. Powers, E. A. Kuzin, and J. W. Haus*, "Wavelength tunable high power laser using a double-clad Er:Yb doped fiber", Laser Phys. 21, 1936-1940 (2011).link
2010
3. R. Zhou, J. W. Haus, P. E. Powers, and Q. Zhan*, "Vectorial fiber laser using intracavity axial birefringence," Opt. Express 18, 10839(2010). link
2009
2. R. Zhou, B. Ibarra-Escamilla, Q. Zhan, P. E. Powers, and J. W. Haus*, "Self-phase modulation effects and pulse propagation in gain guided fibers, " J. Europ. Opt. Soc. Rap. Public. 4, 09051 (2009). link
1. R. Zhou, B. Ibarra-Escamilla, J. W. Haus, P. E. Powers, and Q. Zhan*, "Fiber laser generating switchable radially and azimuthally polarized beams with 140 mW output power at 1.6 µm wavelength, " Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 191111(2009). link