Dr. Changlong Zhu joined the group six years ago as our first postdoctoral researcher and worked on the theory of Brillouin quantum optoacoustics. He published several seminal papers with the group and helped shaping our understanding of continuum optoacoustics. Thank you Changlong for all the…

Dr. Artemii Tishchenko joins us as a Humbolt Research Fellow. Over this program The Alexander von Humbolt Foundation supports highly qualified researchers to carry out a self-chosen project with a host in Germany. Artemii graduated as a PhD student with the fiber optics group of B-PHOT Brussel…

The Scientific Evaluation 2026 of MPL took place from February 24 to 27, during which the international advisory board gained a broad overview of the institute’s research activities. Birgit Stiller presented an overview of our group’s work to the board, highlighting current research directions and…

The 6^th international Workshop on Optomechanics and Brillouin-Mandelstam scattering: Fundamentals, Applications and Technology (WOMBAT) took place in Sydney this year, where the workshop series was founded back in 2015. Birgit Stiller participated in the Steering Committee and gave an invited talk…

Very warm welcome to Finn Tobien, Polina Moreva, Diana Salimdzhanova and Pratham Kulkarni! Finn, Polina and Diana will join us for their Bachelor and Master theses on different projects in our group. Pratham already joined a while ago as an intern and works on our new project on Thin Film Lithium…

We expand on our results on Brillouin cooling to reduce the thermal phonon population in waveguides by starting at cryogenic temperatures and reducing the effective mode temperature to 24.3 K. The paper can be found here.

Authors: Lisa Fischer, Laura Blázquez Martínez, Changlong Zhu, Robin…