We welcome Laura Blázquez Martínez, a new PhD student in our group who joins us from FAU Erlangen! Also a warm welcome to our two summer interns Junyin Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China) and Grégoire Larger (Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France)!

We are proud of our tutorial on “Brillouin scattering – theory and experiment”! It is now available online in Josa B.

Authors: Christian Wolff, Michael J. A. Smith, Birgit Stiller and Christopher G. Poulton

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Brillouin scattering is an important and interesting nonlinear effect involving…

Our work on “Agile and Versatile Quantum Communication: Signatures and Secrets” by Stefan Richter, Matthew Thornton, Imran Khan, Hamish Scott, Kevin Jaksch, Ulrich Vogl, Birgit Stiller, Gerd Leuchs, Christoph Marquardt, and Natalia Korolkova has recently been published in PRX:

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Agile…

A warm welcome to our new Master student Debayan Das who joins us from the FEMTO-ST Institute, Université de Franche-Comté.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person Wombat workshop has been postponed to 14-17 June 2022. But there will be a smaller-scale online event at the originally planned dates 15-17 June 2021!

The virtual Wombat workshop will consist of several invited high-profile presentations and contributed…

Our paper on “On-chip broadband nonreciprocal light storage” has been published in Nanophotonics.

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Breaking the symmetry between forward and backward propagating optical modes is of fundamental scientic interest and enables crucial functionalities, such as isolators, circulators, and…