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.

Abstract:

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

A warm welcome to Steven Becker, a new PhD student in our group! He joins us from TU Dortmund.

Also Philip Schmidt recently joined us from FAU Erlangen to start his Bachelor thesis. Welcome!

Daniel Walter recently submitted his Bachelor thesis, congratulations!

Join the lecture on light-sound interactions by Birgit Stiller tomorrow! You can register here:

www.maxplanckschools.de/314454/newsandevents

In a podcast of the series "Forschung aktuell" by Deutschlandfunk, Birgit Stiller explains how to convert light to sound and to achieve longer storage times by refreshing acoustic phonons:

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/tolle-idee-was-wurde-daraus-optische-computerchips-durch.676.de.html?dram:artic…