Xin Liu (刘鑫)

A light manipulator

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I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Computational Imaging & Mixed Representation Laboratory (WeLight Lab), The University of Hong Kong (HKU).

In 2023, I earned my Ph.D. in Optical Engineering from the X Lab, part of the State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, within the College of Optical Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University (ZJU). Prior to this, I completed my B.E. in Optoelectronic Information Science and Engineering in 2018 at the School of Physics and Optoelectronics, South China University of Technology (SCUT).

I have a broad interest in Computational Optics, currently with a particular focus on Optics Simulator, Light Shaping, Computational Imaging, Adaptive Optics, Far-field Optical Microscopy (Nanoscopy), and Optical Manufacturing.

News

Sep 20, 2025 I received the Outstanding Young Rising Star Awards (1/20) at the 5th International Conference on Computational Imaging (CITA2025)! :sparkles:
May 24, 2025 I’m invited to give a talk at 第七届“计算成像技术与应用”专题研讨会!
Apr 12, 2025 A new paper is published in Nature Communications! This is the final paper of my PhD, covering almost all of my current research areas. :sparkles:
Jan 11, 2025 A new paper is published in Optica! This is my first time as a corresponding author. :sparkles:
Dec 23, 2024 New website is online!

Selected Publications

*Equal contribution; ✉Correspondence.

  1. Nature Communications
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    In situ fully vectorial tomography and pupil function retrieval of tightly focused fields
    Xin Liu, Shijie Tu, Yiwen Hu, Yifan Peng, Yubing Han, Cuifang Kuang, Xu Liu, and Xiang Hao
    Nature Communications, 2025
    The final paper of my PhD!
    DOI Code
  2. Optica
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    Diffraction modeling between arbitrary planes using angular spectrum rearrangement
    Yiwen Hu*, Xin Liu*✉, Xu Liu, and Xiang Hao✉
    Optica, 2025
    My first time as a corresponding author! Top downloads in Jan 2025!
    DOI Code
  3. Optica
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    Modeling off-axis diffraction with the least-sampling angular spectrum method
    Haoyu Wei*, Xin Liu*, Xiang Hao, Edmund Y. Lam, and Yifan Peng
    Optica, 2023
    Top downloads in Jul and Aug 2023!
    DOI Code Website
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    Fast generation of arbitrary optical focus array
    Xin Liu, Yiwen Hu, Shijie Tu, Cuifang Kuang, Xu Liu, and Xiang Hao
    Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2023
    DOI
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    Investigating deep optics model representation in affecting resolved all-in-focus image quality and depth estimation fidelity
    Xin Liu*, Linpei Li*, Xu Liu, Xiang Hao, and Yifan Peng
    Optics Express, 2022
    My first paper on computational imaging!
    DOI
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    Calibration of phase-only liquid-crystal spatial light modulators by diffractogram analysis
    Xin Liu, Shijie Tu, Cuifang Kuang, Xu Liu, and Xiang Hao
    Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2022
    DOI Code
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    Research progress of computational microscopy imaging based on point spread function engineering
    Xin Liu, Cuifang Kuang, Xu Liu, and Xiang Hao
    Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021
    DOI
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    Generation of arbitrary longitudinal polarization vortices by pupil function manipulation
    Xin Liu, Yifan Peng, Shijie Tu, Jun Guan, Cuifang Kuang, Xu Liu, and Xiang Hao
    Advanced Photonics Research, 2021
    Cover story!
    DOI Code
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    Aberrations in structured illumination microscopy: A theoretical analysis
    Xin Liu, Shijie Tu, Yan Xu, Hongya Song, Wenjie Liu, Qiulan Liu, Cuifang Kuang, Xu Liu, and Xiang Hao
    Frontiers in Physics, 2020
    My first scientific paper!
    DOI