2010.09–2015.07 Ph.D. candidate Peking University
2006.09–2010.07 B.S. College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University

2022.03-present Professor, “BIT Teli Young Fellow”, Beijing Institute of Technology
2022.09-2023.09 Visiting Scholar, The University of Hong Kong
Cooperation Advisor: Prof. Shuang Zhang
2021.07-2022.02 Tenured-Associate Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology
2020.02-2020.05 Visiting Scholar, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Cooperation Advisor: Prof. C. T. Chan
2018.01-2021.06 Assitant Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology
2015.08-2018.01 Assistant Professor, Qian Xuesen Laboratory of Space Technology, China Academy of Space Technology

Topological photonics and nanophotonics, especially the on-chip topological nanophotonic devices, photonic chip, non-Hermitian topological photonics, nanophotonic devices based on intelligent algorithms.

* denotes the corresponding author.

1. Hongyi Yuan, Zhuochen Du, Huixin Qi, Guoxiang Si, Cuicui Lu^*, Yan Yang^*, Ze Wang, Bo Ni, Yufei Wang, Qi-Fan Yang, Xiaoyong Hu^*, Qihuang Gong, “Microcomb-driven Photonic Chip for Solving Partial Differential Equations”, Advanced Photonics (2025).

2. Qingyang Mo, Riyi Zheng, Cuicui Lu*, Xueqin Huang*, Zhengyou Liu, Shuang Zhang*, Observation of oriented Landau levels and helical zero modes in Berry dipole acoustic crystals, Physical Review Letters 134, 116604 (2025).

3. Qiuchen Yan*, Boheng Zhao, Qinghong Lyu, Yaolong Li, Saisai Chu, Cuicui Lu*, Xiaoyong Hu*, C.T. Chan*, and Qihuang Gong Near-Field Imaging of Synthetic Dimensional Integrated Plasmonic Topological Harper Nanochains, Nature Communications 16, 2592 (2025).

4. Wen Zhao, Yanji Zheng, Cuicui Lu*, Zhihao Wang, Yong-Chun Liu, Shuang Zhang*, Landau Rainbow Induced by Artificial Gauge Fields, Physical Review Letters 133, 233801 (2024).

5. Zhuochen Du, Kun Liao, Tianxiang Dai, Yufei Wang, Jinze Gao, Haiqi Huang, Huixin Qi, Yandong Li, Xiaoxiao Wang, Xinran Su, Xingyuan Wang, Yan Yang*, Cuicui Lu*, Xiaoyong Hu*, Qihuang Gong, Ultracompact and Multifunctional Integrated Photonic Platform, Science Advances 10, eadm7569 (2024).

6. Hongyu Zhang, Xiaoxiao Wang, Huixin Qi, Zhihao Wang, Xiaoyong Hu*, and Cuicui Lu*, Topological photonic chiral mode converter, Laser & Photonics Reviews 2301315 (2024).

7. Qiuchen Yan,^# Zhihao Wang,^# Dongyi Wang,^# Rui Ma, Cuicui Lu,* Guancong Ma,* Xiaoyong Hu,* Qihuang Gong, Non-Abelian gauge field in optics, Advances in Optics and Photonics 15, 907 (2023).

8. Yandong Li, Yutian Ao, Xiaoyong Hu,* Cuicui Lu,* C. T. Chan,* and Qihuang Gong, Unsupervised Learning of non-Hermitian Photonic Bulk Topology, Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2300481 (2023).

9. Cuicui Lu,*† Yi-Zhi Sun,^† Chenyang Wang,^† Hongyu Zhang, Wen Zhao, Xiaoyong Hu,* Meng Xiao, Wei Ding,* Yong-Chun Liu, C. T. Chan, "On-chip nanophotonic topological rainbow", Nature Communications 13, 2586 (2022). (ESI highly cited papers)

10. Yandong Li, Chongxiao Fan, Xiaoyong Hu,* Yutian Ao, Cuicui Lu,* C. T. Chan,* Dante M. Kennes, and Qihuang Gong, Effective Hamiltonian for Photonic Topological Insulator with Non-Hermitian Domain Walls, Physical Review Letters 129, 053903 (2022).

11. Cuicui Lu,* Chenyang Wang, Meng Xiao,* Z. Q. Zhang, and C. T. Chan,* Topological rainbow concentrator based on synthetic dimension, Physical Review Letters 126, 113902 (2021). (ESI highly cited papers)

12. Yutian Ao, Xiaoyong Hu,* Yilong You, Cuicui Lu,* Yulan Fu, Xingyuan Wang,* Qihuang Gong, Topological Phase Transition in Non-Hermitian Coupled Resonator Array, Physical Review Letters 125, 013902 (2020).

13. Kun Liao, Xiaoyong Hu,* Tianyi Gan, Qihang Liu, Zhenlin Wu, Xilin Feng, Chongxiao Fan, Cuicui Lu,* Yongchun Liu, and Qihuang Gong, Photonic-Molecule Quantum Optics, Advances in Optics and Photonics 12, 60 (2020).

14. Zhouhui Liu,^# Xiaohong Liu, ^# Zhiyuan Xiao,^# Cuicui Lu,* Hui-Qin Wang, You Wu, Xiaoyong Hu, Yong-Chun Liu, Hongyu Zhang, and Xiangdong Zhang, Integrated nanophotonic wavelength router based on intelligent algorithm, Optica 6, 1367 (2019).

15. Cuicui Lu, Xiaoyong Hu,* Kebin Shi, Qin Hu, Rui Zhu, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, “An actively ultrafast tunable giant slow-light effect in ultra-thin nonlinear metasurfaces”, Light: Science & Applications 4, e302 (2015).

16. Qiuchen Yan, Xiaoyong Hu,* Yulan Fu,* Cuicui Lu,* Chongxiao Fan, Qihang Liu, Xilin Feng, Quan Sun, and Qihuang Gong, Quantum Topological Photonics, Advanced Optical Materials 9, 2001739 (2021). (selected as inside Cover)

17. Cuicui Lu,* Zhouhui Liu, You Wu, Zhiyuan Xiao, Dongyi Yu, Hongyu Zhang, Chenyang Wang, Xiaoyong Hu,* Yong-Chun Liu, Xiaohong Liu, and Xiangdong Zhang, “Nanophotonic polarization routers based on intelligent algorithm”, Advanced Optical Materials 8, 1902018 (2020). (Selected as Cover, and reported by Materials Views China)

18. Cui-Cui Lu,∗ Hong-Yi Yuan, Hong-Yu Zhang, Wen Zhao, Nian-En Zhang, Yan-Ji Zheng, Sayed Elshahat, Yong-Chun Liu, On-chip topological nanophotonic devices, Chip 1, 100025 (2022).

19. Wen Zhao, Yanji Zheng, Cuicui Lu,* Topological rainbow trapping based on non-Hermitian twisted piecing photonic crystals, Photonics Research 10, 2728 (2022).

20. Xinyao Huang, Cuicui Lu, Chao Liang, Honggeng Tao, Yong-Chun Liu,* Loss-induced nonreciprocity, Light: Science & Applications 10, 30 (2021).

21. Kun Liao , Yaxiao Lian, Maotao Yu, Zhuochen Du, Tianxiang Dai, Yaxin Wang , Haoming Yan, Shufang Wang, Cuicui Lu, C. T. Chan^*, Rui Zhu^*, Dawei Di^*, Xiaoyong Hu^*, and Qihuang Gong, Hetero-integrated perovskite/Si3N4 on-chip photonic system, Nature Photonics, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01603-y (2025).

22. Kun Liao, et al. Cuicui Lu, et al. On-chip integrated exceptionalsurface microlaser, Science Advances 9, eadf3470 (2023).

23. Yan Sun, et al. Cuicui Lu, et al. Mesoscopic sliding ferroelectricity enabled photovoltaic random access memory for material-level artificial vision system, Nature Communications 13, 5391 (2022).

24. Yaohua Li, Chao Liang, Chenyang Wang, Cuicui Lu, and Yong-Chun Liu,* Gain-Loss-Induced Hybrid Skin-Topological Effect, Physical Review Letters 128, 223903 (2022).

25. Rui Ma, Qiuchen Yan*, Yihao Luo, Yandong Li, Xingyuan Wang, Cuicui Lu*, Xiaoyong Hu*, Qihuang Gong, Informationentropy enabled identifying topological photonic phase in real space, Frontiers of Optoelectronics 17, 11 (2024).

26. Zhuochen Du, Jinze Gao, Qiuchen Yan*, Cuicui Lu*, Xiaoyong Hu*, Qihuang Gong, Spincontrolled topological phase transition in nonEuclidean space, Frontiers of Optoelectronics 17, 7 (2024).

27. Sayed El. Soliman, Israa Abood, and Cuicui Lu*, Robust multi-mode rainbow trapping with ultra-high-Q Fano resonances, Optics Express 32, 1010 (2024).

28. Guoxiang Si, Wen Zhao, Hongyu Zhang and Cuicui Lu*, Topological photonic encoder based on the disclination states, Journal of Physics: Photonics 6, 035006 (2024).

29. Meitong Dong, Huiqin Wang,*, Haoji Yang, Nanrun Zhou, Cuicui Lu, Heqing Xu, Zijing Zhang, Ultra-broadband multi-character logic gates integrated by inverse designed logic units, Optics Communications 579, 131545 (2025).

30. Zhiwei Guo*, Cuicui Lu*, Xiao Lin* and Xingjie Ni*, Editorial: Optical hyperbolic metamaterials, Frontiers in Materials, 9, 1115744 (2022)

31. Xinyue Wang, Wen Zhao, Sayed Elshahat, Cuicui Lu*, Topological rainbow trapping based on gradual valley photonic crystals, Frontiers in Physics 11, 1141997 (2023).

32. Yaohua Li, Cuicui Lu, Shuang Zhang, and Yong-Chun Liu*, Loss-induced Floquet non-Hermitian skin effect, Physical Review B 108, L220301 (2023).

33. Sayed Elshahat, Hongyu Zhang, Cuicui Lu*, Topological rainbow based on coupling of topological waveguide and cavity, Optics Express 31, 20187 (2023).

34. Hongyi Yuan, Nianen Zhang, Hongyu Zhang and Cuicui Lu*, A Multi-Channel Frequency Router Based on an Optimization Algorithm and Dispersion Engineering, Nanomaterials 13, 2133 (2023).

35. Cuicui Lu*†, Wen Zhao^†, Sheng Zhang^†, Yanji Zheng, Chenyang Wang, Yaohua Li, Yong-Chun Liu, Xiaoyong Hu*, and Zhi Hong Hang*, Observation of topological rainbow in non-Hermitian systems, Chinese Optics Letters 21, 123601 (2023).

36. Xinyue Wang, Wen Zhao, Sayed Elshahat, Cuicui Lu*, Topological rainbow trapping based on gradual valley photonic crystals, Frontiers in Physics 11, 1141997 (2023).

37. Hongyu Zhang, Yuhan Zhang, Cuicui Lu,* Topological polarization selection concentrator, Optics Letters 47, 6121 (2022).

38. Sayed Elshahat, Hongyu Zhang, Cuicui Lu,* Topological rainbow based on coupling of topological waveguide and cavity, Optics Express 31, 20187 (2023).

39. Xinyue Wang, Wen Zhao, Sayed Elshahat, Cuicui Lu,* Topological rainbow trapping based on gradual valley photonic crystals, Frontiers in Physics 10, 953407 (2023).

40. Sayed Elshahat, Mohamed Saleh M. Esmail, Hongyi Yuan, Shuai Feng,* and Cuicui Lu,* Broadband Multiple Topological Rainbows, Annalen der Physik 2200137 (2022).

41. Xiaoyong Hu,* Guancong Ma,* Cuicui Lu,* Yulan Fu,* Editorial: Topological Photonics, Frontiers in Physics 10, 953407 (2022).

42. Chao Liang, Bei Liu, An-Ning Xu, Xin Wen, Cuicui Lu, Keyu Xia, Meng Khoon Tey, Yong-Chun Liu,* Li You, Collision-Induced Broadband Optical Nonreciprocity, Physical Review Letters 125, 123901 (2020).

43. Tong Wu, Weixuan Zhang, Huizhen Zhang, Saisai Hou, Guangyuan Chen, Ruibin Liu, Cuicui Lu, Jiafang Li, Rongyao Wang, Pengfei Duan, Junjie Li, Bo Wang, Lei Shi, Jian Zi, Xiangdong Zhang,* Vector Exceptional Points with Strong Superchiral Fields, Physical Review Letters 124, 083901 (2020).

44. Xinxiang Niu, Xiaoyong Hu*, Quan Sun*, Cuicui Lu*, Yuanmu Yang, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, Polarization-selected nonlinearity transition in gold dolmens coupled to an epsilon-near-zero material, Nanophotonics, 9, 4839-4851 (2020).

45. Xinxiang Niu, Xiaoyong Hu*, Cuicui Lu*, Yan Sheng*, Hong Yang and Qihuang Gong, Broadband dispersive free, large, and ultrafast nonlinear material platforms for photonics, Nanophotonics, 9, 4609-4618 (2020).

46. Kun Liao, Ye Chen, Zhongcheng Yu, Xiaoyong Hu*, Xingyuan Wang*, Cuicui Lu, Hongtao Lin*, Qingyang Du, Juejun Hu, and Qihuang Gong, All-optical computing based on convolutional neural networks, Opto-Electronic Advances 4, 200060 (2021). (selected as Cover and highlighted by Phys.org)

47. Sayed Elshahat, Chenyang Wang, Hongyu Zhang, Cuicui Lu,* Perspective on the topological rainbow, Applied Physics Letters 119, 230505 (2021). (invited Perspective)

48. Hongyu Zhang, Yanji Zheng, Zhi-Ming Yu, Xiaoyong Hu, and Cuicui Lu,* Topological hybrid nanocavity for coupling phase transition, Journal of Optics 23, 124002 (2021). (selected as “Journal of Optics Emerging Leaders 2022”)

49. Sayed Elshahat, Israa Abood, Mohamed Saleh M. Esmail, Zhengbiao Ouyang,* and Cuicui Lu,* One-Dimensional Topological Photonic Crystal Mirror Heterostructure for Sensing, Nanomaterials 11, 1940 (2021).

50. Hongyi Yuan, Zhouhui Liu, Maoliang Wei, Hongtao Lin*, Xiaoyong Hu,* and Cuicui Lu*, Topological Nanophotonic Wavelength Router Based on Topology Optimization, Micromachines 12, 1506 (2021). (special issue of “Photonic Chips for Optical Communications”)

51. Hongyu Zhang, Wen Zhao, Yaotian Liu, Jiali Chen, Xinyue Wang, Cuicui Lu*, Photonic-plasmonic hybrid microcavities: physics and applications, Chinese Physics B, 30 (11), 117801 (2021).

52. Hongyu Zhang, Long Qian, Chenyang Wang, Chang-Yin Ji, Yaotian Liu, Jiali Chen, Cuicui Lu,* Topological rainbow based on graded topological photonic crystals, Optics Letters 46, 1237, (2021).

53. Hongyi Yuan, Lifeng Ma, Zhe Yuan, Shuai Feng,* Jing Li, Xiaoyong Hu, Cuicui Lu,* On-Chip Cascaded Bandpass Filter and Wavelength Router Using an Intelligent Algorithm, IEEE Photonics Journal 13, 6600408 (2021).

54. Zhe Yuan, Shuai Feng,* Weizhen Liu, Zhouhui Liu, Yuxuan Zhang, Cuicui Lu,* On-Chip Ultra-Small Arbitrary-Elliptical-Polarization Converters, IEEE Photonics Journal 13, 6601008 (2021).

55. Lifeng Ma, Jing Li, Zhouhui Liu, Yuxuan Zhang, Nianen Zhang, Shuqiao Zheng, Cuicui Lu,* Intelligent algorithms: new avenues for designing nanophotonic devices, Chinese Optics Letters 19, 011301 (2021). (invited review and selected as Cover)

56. Hongyu Zhang, Yong-Chun Liu, Chenyang Wang, Nianen Zhang, Cuicui Lu,* Hybrid photonic-plasmonic nano-cavity with ultrahigh Q/V, Optics Letters, 45, 17 (2020). (Editor’s Pick)

57. Chenyang Wang, Hongyu Zhang, Hongyi Yuan, Jinrui Zhong, Cuicui Lu,* Universal numerical calculation method for the Berry curvature and Chern numbers of typical topological photonic crystals, Frontiers of Optoelectronics 13, 73 (2020). (FOE Best Paper Award)

58. Tian Zi-Cong, Guo Yi-Min, Hu Chen-Yan, Wang Hui-Qin,* and Lu Cui-Cui, Broadband efficient focusing on-chip integrated nano-lens, Acta Physica Sinica, 69, 244201 (2020).

59. You Wu, Xiaoyong Hu,* Feifan Wang, Jinghuan Yang, Cuicui Lu,* Yong-Chun Liu, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, Ultracompact and Unidirectional On-Chip Light Source Based on Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials in Optical Communication Range, Physical Review Applied 12, 054021 (2019).

60. Xinxiang Niu, Xiaoyonghu,* Qiuchen Yan, Jiankun Zhu, Haotian Cheng, Yifan Huang, Cuicui Lu,* Yulan Fu,* and Qihuang Gong, Plasmon-induced transparency effect for ultracompact on-chip devices, Nanophotonics 8, 1125 (2019).

61. Zhouhui Liu, Yuxuan Zhang, Weixuan Guo, Yong-Chun Liu, Xiaoyong Hu, and Cuicui Lu*, Ultrasmall broadband wavelength and polarization router based on hybrid waveguide of monolithicLiNbO₃, Optics Letters 44, 23 (2019).

62. Jing-Hui Gan, Yong-Chun Liu,* Cuicui Lu, Xiao Wang, Mengkun Zheng, and Li You, Intracavity-squeezed optomechanical cooling, Laser & Photonics Reviews, 13, 1900120 (2019).

63. Xinyue Wang, Wen Zhao, Hongyu Zhang, Sayed Elshahat, Cuicui Lu*, Magnetic-optic effect-based topological state: realization and application, Frontiers in Materials 8, 816877 (2022).

64. Sayed Elshahat, Zain Elabdeen A. Mohamed, Mohamed Almokhtar,* Cuicui Lu*, High tunability and sensitivity of 1D topological photonic crystal heterostructure, Journal of Optics 24, 035004 (2022).

65. Sayed Elshahat, Cuicui Lu*, Bidirectional Rainbow Trapping in 1-D Chirped Topological Photonic Crystal, Frontiers in Physics 10, 831203 (2022).

66. Cuicui Lu, Xiaoyong Hu, Fan Zhang, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, Multilayer graphene:polycrystalline ITO for ultralow-power active control of polarization-insensitive, metamaterial-induced transparency, Advanced Optical Materials 2, 1115-1118 (2014). (selected as cover)

67. Cuicui Lu, Xiaoyong Hu, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, Ultrawide-band unidirectional surface plasmon Polariton launchers, Advanced Optical Materials 1, 792-797 (2013). (selected as cover)

68. Cuicui Lu, Xiaoyong Hu, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, All-optical logic binary encoder based on asymmetric plasmonic nanogrooves, Applied Physics Letters 103, 121107 (2013).

69. Yulan Fu, Xiaoyong Hu, Cuicui Lu, Song Yue, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, All-optical logic gates based on nanoscale plasmonic slot waveguides, Nano Letters 12, 5784 (2012).

70. Cuicui Lu, Xiaoyong Hu, Yingbo Zhang, Zhiqiang Li, Xin’anXu, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, Ultralow power all-optical diode in photonic crystal heterostructures with broken spatial inversion symmetry, Applied Physics Letters 99, 051107 (2011).

71. Cuicui Lu, Xiaoyong Hu, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, Ultrahigh-contrast and wideband nanoscale photonic crystal all-optical diode, Optics Letters 36, 4668 (2011).

72. Cuicui Lu,* Yong-Chun Liu, Xiaoyong Hu, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, Integrated ultracompact and broadband wavelength demultiplexer based on multi-component nano-cavities, Scientific Reports 6, 27428 (2016).

73. Cuicui Lu, Xiaoyong Hu, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, Chip-integrated ultrawide-band all-optical logic comparator in plasmonic circuits, Scientific Reports 4, 3869 (2014).

74. Cuicui Lu, Xiaoyong Hu, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, Integrated all-optical logic discriminators based on plasmonic bandgap engineering, Scientific Reports 3, 2778 (2013).

75. Cuicui Lu, Hui-Qin Wang, Jianxiang Miao, Weixuan Guo, Xueshuang Xiang, Yong-Chun Liu, A tunable on-chip integrated plasmonic filter and router based on metal/dielectric nanostructures, Plasmonics 13, 115, (2018).

76. Cuicui Lu, Xiaoyong Hu, Song Yue, Yulan Fu, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, Ferroelectric hybrid plasmonic waveguide for all-optical logic gate Applications, Plasmonics 8, 749 (2013).

77. Cuicui Lu, Xiaoyong Hu, Yingbo Zhang, Zhiqiang Li, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, Large nonlinearity enhancement of Ag/MEH–PPV nanocomposite by surface plasmon resonance at 1,550 nm, Plasmonics 7, 159 (2011).

78. Cuicui Lu, Xiaoyong Hu, Xiaoyang Liu, Xiao Ma, Chenyun Wu, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, Multi-color photon sorting based on plasmonic microcavities, Journal of Optics 16, 015003 (2014).

79. Xiaoyu Yang, Xiaoyong Hu, Zhen Chai, Cuicui Lu, Hong Yang, and Qihuang Gong, Tunable ultracompact chip-integrated multichannel filter based on plasmon-induced transparencies, Applied Physics Letters 104, 221114 (2014).

80. Yu Zhu, Xiaoyong Hu, Cuicui Lu, Yongyang Huang, and Qihuang Gong, All-optical tunable wavelength-division multiplexing based on colloid al crystal coated silver film, Plasmonics 7, 589 (2012).

81. R. Niu, C. Lu, D. Wu, X. Fan, C. Liu, J. Liu, L. Zheng, L. Su, J. Xu. Thermal lensing study based on the heat transfer of diode-pumped Yb3+:Y2SiO5 lasers, The European Physical Journal-Applied Physics 54, 10103 (2011).

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