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…

Is it possible to store 100ps-long optical pulses into acoustic waves? The question is very justified as the resonance that we use for light-storage is only 30 MHz wide. We now demonstrated in our recent paper in npj nanophotonics, that relatively short pulses with a broad bandwidth up to several…

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!

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…

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…

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
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