The Outstanding Reviewer recognition is given annually to commend the top reviewers for their outstanding peer review efforts over the past year. Recipients were chosen by the Editors-in-Chief of our journals from scores of nominations provided by their Topical and Associate Editors. We thank and congratulate the following conscientious and dedicated Optica Publishing Group reviewers who are the 2025 recipients of this recognition:

Ji Eun Bae, CIMAP-CNRS-Université de Caen Normandie, France
Christian Brahms, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Fabian Brunner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Xuyang Chang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Yujie Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Mengfan Cheng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Alain Corso, CNR – IFN Padova, Italy
Maolin Dai, University of Tokyo, Japan
Keyi Han, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Ying He, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Hai Tao Jiang, Tongji University, China
Mariusz Klimczak, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland
Sylvain Lecler, INSA Strasbourg, France
Jinxing Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Yutong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Yuankun Liu, Sichuan University, China
Jinran Qie, Washington University in St Louis, USA
Mikolaj Rogalski, Politechnika Warszawska, Poland
Ragini Singh, K L Deemed to be University, India
Feihu Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Naru Yoneda, Kobe University, Japan
Longhui Zeng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
HaiFeng Zhang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Simin Zhang, Ohio State University, USA

The Outstanding Reviewer recognition is given annually to commend the top reviewers for their outstanding peer review efforts over the past year. Recipients were chosen by the Editors-in-Chief of our journals from scores of nominations provided by their Topical and Associate Editors. We thank and congratulate the following conscientious and dedicated Optica Publishing Group reviewers who are the 2024 recipients of this recognition:

Matthew Atkinson, 3M Company, USA
Thomas Baehr-Jones, Luminous Computing, USA
Liheng Bian, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Giuseppe Brunetti, Politecnico di Bari, ITALY
Pablo Manuel Cencillo Abad, University of Central Florida, USA
Xiaoxiao Dai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Dongmei Deng, South China Normal University, China
Xiaoming Duan, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Qiang Fu, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia
Jesús Gomez-Correa, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico
Benjamin Hogan, Queen's University of Belfast, UK
Shuming Jiao, Quantum Science Center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, China
Puxiang Lai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Yuye Ling, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Ricardo Martínez, The Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
Rui Min, Beijing Normal University, China
Zong Qin, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Xingjun Wang, Peking University, China
Yajun Wang, Sichuan University, China
Daixuan Wu, South China Normal University, China
Shiyi Xiao, Shanghai University, China
Weichao Yao, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
Junwen Zhang, Fudan University, China
Zi Hui Zhang, Hebei University of Technology, China
Xuyang Zhou, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

The Outstanding Reviewer recognition is given annually to commend the top reviewers for their outstanding peer review efforts over the past year. Recipients were chosen by the Editors-in-Chief of our journals from scores of nominations provided by their Topical and Associate Editors. We thank and congratulate the following conscientious and dedicated Optica Publishing Group reviewers who are the 2023 recipients of this recognition:

Goekalp Akinoglu, University of Melbourne, Australia
Omar Alkhazragi, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Pierre-Alexandre Blanche, University of Arizona, USA
Sai Chen, Beihang University, China
Chun-Yu Cho, National United University, Taiwan
Lei Deng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Yi Dong, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Peng Fei, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Shu-Wei Huang, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Houkun Liang, Sichuan University, China
Miguel Marquez, National Institute of Scientific Research, University of Quebec, Canada
Maxim Masyukov, Aalto University, Finland
Francesco Musumeci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Teruyoshi Nobukawa, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Japan
Valdas Pasiskevicius, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, Sweden
Diego Romero Abujetas, IEM-CSIC, Spain
Youjian Song, Tianjin University, China
Osamu Takayama, DTU-Electro, Denmark
Hiyori Uehara, National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan
Miranda van Iersel, University of Dayton, USA
Anne-Lise Viotti, Lund University, Sweden
Chaowei Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Li Wang, Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China
Zhoujie Wu, Sichuan University, China
Yixiao Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

The Outstanding Reviewer recognition is given annually to commend the top reviewers for their outstanding peer review efforts over the past year. Recipients were chosen by the Editors-in-Chief of our journals from scores of nominations provided by their Topical and Associate Editors. We thank and congratulate the following conscientious and dedicated Optica Publishing Group reviewers who are the 2022 recipients of this recognition:

Meisam Bahadori, Nokia, USA
Liangcai Cao, Tsinghua University, China
Chi-Wai Chow, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Arash Darafsheh, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Tianren Fan, Amazon Web Services, USA
Francois Goudail, Institut d'Optique, France
Samad Jafar-Zanjani, Northeastern University, USA
Cesar Jauregui, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Tian Jiang, National University of Defense Technology, China
Fumihiko Kannari, Keio University, Japan
Pathik Kumbhakar, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India
Tatiana Latychevskaia, Physics Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Xiang Li, China University of Geosciences, China
Yihan Li, Beihang University, China
Xiutao Lou, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Chris Metzler, University of Maryland at College Park, USA
Bruce  Perilloux, Coherent Inc, USA
Xiang Ping, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Shunda Qiao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Junfei Shen, Sichuan University, China
Nikolai Ushakov, St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia
Yicheng Wang, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Christian Wolff, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Luming Zhao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Stanislav Zvanovec, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

The Outstanding Reviewer recognition is given annually to commend the top reviewers for their outstanding peer review efforts over the past year. Recipients were chosen by the Editors-in-Chief of our journals from scores of nominations provided by their Topical and Associate Editors. We thank and congratulate the following conscientious and dedicated Optica Publishing Group reviewers who are the 2021 recipients of this recognition: 

Eghbal Amidi, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Vittorio Bianco, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-ISASI, Italy
Martin Bock, Max Born Institute, Germany
Shih-Chi Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
Xiaoliang Chen, University of California, Davis, USA
Alessandro Fedrizzi, Heriot-Watt University, UK
James Fienup, University of Rochester, USA
Yukun Guo, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Jie Hui, Boston University, USA
Jae Jang, Columbia University, USA
Fumihiro Kaneda, Tohoku University, Japan
Kedar Khare, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Chaitanya Kumar Suddapalli, ICFO -Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain
Son Le, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Xiaoli Liu, Shenzhen University, China
Marcelo Nogueira, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
Oleg Pronin, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany
Jordi Sancho-Parramon, Institut Ruder Boskovic, Croatia
Tomoyoshi Shimobaba, Chiba University, Japan
Maciej Trusiak, Politechnika Warszawska, Poland
Martin Villiger, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, USA
Chensheng Wu, University of Maryland College Park, USA
Yu Yu, Wuhan National Lab for Optoelectronics, China
Luqi Yuan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Yide Zhang, California Institute of Technology, USA

The Outstanding Reviewer recognition is given annually to commend the top reviewers for their outstanding peer review efforts over the past year. Recipients were chosen by the Editors-in-Chief of our journals from scores of nominations provided by their Topical and Associate Editors. We thank and congratulate the following conscientious and dedicated Optica Publishing Group reviewers who are the 2020 recipients of this recognition:

Kaan Aksit, NVIDIA Corporation, USA
Oriol Arteaga, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Luc Berge, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, France
Jonathan Bradley, McMaster University, Canada
Tun Cao, Dalian University of Technology, China
Zhichao Dong, National Astronomical Observatory China, China
Lucas Gabrielli, UNICAMP, Brazil
Ning Jiang, Univ of Electronic Science & Tech China, China
Yunshan  Jiang, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Sergey Kudryashov, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russia
Kirill Larin, University of Houston, USA
Ruoyu Liao, Tianjin University, China
Marco Marangoni, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY
Chengbo Mou, Shanghai University, China
Mark Phillips, University of Arizona, USA
Olivier Pottiez, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC, Mexico
Yijie Shen, University of Southampton, UK
Yuecheng Shen, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Jinlong Wei, Huawei Technologies, Germany
Forrest  Williams , MLD Technologies, USA
Thierry Zami, Nokia/ASN, France
Tao Zhan, University of Central Florida, USA
Baitao Zhang, Shandong University, China
Yiqi Zhang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Yongguang Zhao, Max-Born Institute, Germany

The Outstanding Reviewer recognition is given annually to commend the top reviewers for their outstanding peer review efforts over the past year. Recipients were chosen by the Editors-in-Chief of our journals from scores of nominations provided by their Topical and Associate Editors. We thank and congratulate the following conscientious and dedicated Optica Publishing Group reviewers who are the 2019 recipients of this recognition:

Chair of Board of Editors, Martijn de Sterke, with Outstanding Reviewer recipient, Xingyu Zhang

Ibrahim Abdulhalim, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Alessandro Alberucci, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Vijayakumar Anand, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Tianwai Bo, KAIST, S. Korea
Liangcai Cao, Tsinghua University, China
Francesco Chiavaioli, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Bill Corcoran, Monash University, Australia
Michaël Hemmer, JILA—University of Colorado, USA
Panagiotis Kokkinos, University of Patras, Greece
Victor Kotlyar, Image Processing Systems Institute, Russia
Haifeng Lin, Fujian Institute of Research on Structure Matter, China
Zhi-Chao Luo, South China Normal University, China
Cristian Manzoni, IFN-CNR, Italy
Peter Mosley, University of Bath, UK
Andriy Serebryannikov, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
Greg A. Smith, University of Arizona, USA
Fernando Soldevila, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Youjian Song, Tianjin University, China
Alexander Tikhonravov, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Alexey Tishchenko, National Research Nuclear University, Russia
Mykhailo Tymchenko, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Chia Chien Wei, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Withawat Withayachumnankul, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Yuanjiang Xiang, Shenzhen University, China
Chao Zuo, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Congratulations to the 2018 class of Outstanding Reviewers:

Maximino Avendaño Alejo, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
Viktoriia Babicheva, University of Arizona, Optical Sciences, USA
David Blinder, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Etienne Brasselet, Université de Bordeaux, France
William Cassarly, Synopsys, Inc, USA
Haiwei Chen, University of Central Florida, USA
Ruben Esteban, DIPC, Spain
Franco Gori, Universita degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
Takashi Kakue, Chiba University, Japan
Björn Kemper, University of Münster, Germany
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Zhixin Liu, University College London, UK
Zhengqian Luo, Xiamen University, China
Xiongfeng Ma, Tsinghua University, China
Jacob Mackenzie, University of Southampton, UK
Boris Malomed, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Tatiana Novikova, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Benjamin Perez-Garcia, Technologica de Monterrey, Mexico
Yair Rivenson, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Manuel Servin, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC, Mexico
Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Georgios Veronis, Louisiana State University, USA
Jun Xia, University at Buffalo, USA
Dimitrios Zografopoulos, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Xihua Zou, Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Congratulations to the 2017 class of Outstanding Reviewers:

Yangjian Cai, Soochow University, China
Di Che, University of Melbourne, Australia
Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Nicolas Dupuis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Antoine Godard, ONERA—The French Aerospace Lab, France
Ali Hariri, Wayne State University, USA
Rigoberto Juarez-Salazar, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Byoungho Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea
Ricardo Legarda-Saenz, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mexico
Pavel Loiko, ITMO University, Russia
Joris Lousteau, ORC, University of Southampton, UK
Apratim Majumder, University of Utah, USA
Giovanni Milione, NEC Laboratories America Inc, USA
Aldo Minardo, Seconda Universita degli Studi di Napoli, Italy
Andrey Miroshnichenko, Australian National University, Australia
Amy Oldenburg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Sahin K. Ozdemir, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Luca Schenato, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Kartik Srinivasan, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Stefan Wabnitz, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy
Robert Woodward, Macquarie University, Australia
Logan Wright, Cornell University, USA
Han Zhang, Shenzhen University, China
Pu Zhou, National University of Defense Technology, China
Chao Zhou, Lehigh University, USA

Congratulations to the 2016 class of Outstanding Reviewers:

Nicolás Mario Abadía Calvo, McGill University, Canada
Vyas Akondi, Consejo Sup Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Dario Ambrosini, Universita degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
Torben Brender Andersen, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., USA
Christophe Caucheteur, University of Mons, Belgium
Mikhail Charnotskii, MC Consulting, USA
Li Chen, Acacia Communications Inc
Wen Chen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Yuanbing Cheng, Nanyang Technological University, China
Matteo Cherchi, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Thomas DeKorsy, University Konstanz, Germany
Ayhan Demircan, Leibniz University, Germany
Sascha Grusche, Physikdidaktik, Germany
Nathan Hagen, Utsunomiya University, Japan
Yaguo Li, Fine Optical Engineering Research Center, China
Andrey B. Matsko, OEwaves Inc, USA
Miles John Padgett, University of Glasgow, UK
Christophe Peucheret, FOTON Laboratory—UMR, France
Sergey A. Ponomarenko, Dalhousie University, Canada
Vivek Srinivasan, University of California Davis, USA
Peng Sun, Luxtera Inc, USA
Qunbi Zhuge, Ciena Corp., Canada and McGill University, Canada

Congratulations to the 2015 class of Outstanding Reviewers:

Neil Broderick, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Chia-Ming Chang, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA
Haobo Cheng, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Arnaud Couairon, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Venkata S.R. Gudimetla, US Air Force, USA
Bahram Javidi, University of Connecticut, USA
Sergey Kobtsev, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
Servando Lopez-Aguayo, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
Christos Markos, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Ignacio Moreno, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain
Shilong Pan, Nanjing University Aeronautics & Astronautics, China
Peeter Saari, Tartu Ülikooli, Estonia
Selim M. Shahriar, Northwestern University, USA
Alexander V. Tikhonravov, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Thomas Vassiliadis, Fritz Haber Institute, Germany
Hui-Tian Wang, Nankai University, China
Yuhao Wang, UtopiaCompression Corp., USA
Jianming Wen, Yale University, USA
Chang-Jae Yu, Hanyang University, South Korea
Xingyu Zhang, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA

Congratulations to the 2014 class of Outstanding Reviewers:

We thank and congratulate the following conscientious and dedicated Optica Publishing Group reviewers who are the 2014 recipients of this recognition:

Jacques Albert, Carleton University, Canada
Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA
Christopher Dainty, University College London, UK
Andreas Erdmann, Fraunhofer IISB, Germany
Kejie Fang, Stanford University, USA
Lukas Gallmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Joonku Hahn, Kyungpook National University, South Korea
Zhanghua Han, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Alex Kildishev, Purdue University, USA
Christian Kraenkel, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Marco Presi, Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitarie di Perfezionamento Sant' Anna di Pisa, Italy
Alexander Small, California State Poytechnic University, USA
Zeev Zalevsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Congratulations to the 2013 class of Outstanding Reviewers:

We thank and congratulate the following conscientious and dedicated Optica Publishing Group reviewers who are the 2013 recipients of the recognition:

Eugeny Abramochkin, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russia
Joern Bonse, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany
Gilberto Brambilla, University of Southampton, UK
Jeffrey Driscoll, Columbia University, USA
Robert Eckardt, USA (retired)
Ben Eggleton, University of Sydney, Australia
Miro Erkintalo, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Philippe Grelu, University de Bourgogne, France
Xiaolong Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Wei Jia, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), China
Mircea Mujat, Physical Sciences Inc., USA
Arnaud Mussot, University Lille, France
Olivier Parriaux, University Jean Monnet, France
Nicolaie Pavel, National Institute of Lasers, Plasma, and Radiation Physics, Romania
Bruce Perilloux, Coherent Inc., USA
Kevin Rolland-Thompson, Synopsys, USA
Jose Sanchez-Gil, Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Natan Shaked, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Philippe Smet, Ghent University, Belgium
Alessio Stefani, Max Planck Institute, Germany

We are pleased to announce a new recognition that will be given annually and that commends the top 20 reviewers for their outstanding peer review efforts over the past year. Recipients were chosen by the Editors-in-Chief of our journals from scores of nominations provided by their Topical and Associate Editors.

We thank and congratulate the following conscientious and dedicated Optica Publishing Group reviewers who are the 2012 recipients of the recognition: