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Physics World and BBC World Radio highlight our work on photonic computation with sound waves
Physics World writes about our publication in Nature Communications on an optoacoustic recurrent operator for optical neural networks. The article "Sound and light waves combine to create advanced optical neural networks" can be found here. We also had the chance to be featured in the morning show…
Ohm Award for Philipp Wiedemann
Congratulations to Philipp Wiedemann who received the Ohm Prize for his Bachelorthesis entitled “Brillouin Entanglement and Optoacoustic Cooling in Chalcogenide Photonic Crystal Fibers” last Friday!
Photonic computation with sound waves
Optical neural networks may provide the high-speed and large-capacity solution necessary to tackle challenging computing tasks. However, tapping their full potential will require further advances. One challenge is the reconfigurability of
optical neural networks. A research team in the Stiller…
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation appointed Birgit Stiller as Henriette Herz Scout
Birgit Stiller, independent group leader in quantum optoacoustics at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, studies the interaction between light and sound. The physicist has long made a name for herself as an internationally renowned expert. In addition to her numerous publications in…
New paper on the arxiv: optoacoustic activation function
We demonstrate a photonic nonlinear activation function based on stimulated Brillouin scattering. We show that it can be widely reconfigured all-optically and is frequency selective. The paper can be found here.
Authors: Grigorii Slinkov*, Steven Becker*, Dirk Englund and Birgit Stiller
(*equally…
WOMBAT 5 in Campinas, Brazil
Half of our group went to the Workshop of OptoMechanics and Brillouin scattering (WOMBAT) in Campinas. Organized by Prof. Gustavo Wiederhecker and Prof. Thiago Alegre, it was a superbe line-up of research talks and great networking opportunity. Thank you also for letting us take part in Brazilian…
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Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
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91058 Erlangen, Germany