Laser Focus World featured Birgit Stiller in a podcast interview on our vision on fabrication-free optical neural networks. It goes into detail on different versatile building blocks, that we already achieved on the road to this goal, i.e. fully optical nonlinear activation functions, coherent…

We met with the research groups Del’Haye and Fattahi for our yearly visit of Berg. As always, a lot of fun!

Enhancing the capacity of Brillouin-based storage: we demonstrate optoacoustic storage of quadrature phase-shift keying (QPKS) signals. More important and interesting for training of optical neural networks, we show the dependence of the optical phase on the phase-mismatch which can be used as an…

Very warm welcome to Faress Madhoun and Cyrus Young! Both are currently in their undergraduate studies at the universities of Ottawa and British Columbia, respectively, and joined us for research internships until summer.

The group gathered for a small get-together. Everybody brought some snacks and wine and we took the evening going through all the different options and celebrating the ERC grant we received in December last year.

Europhysics News invited us to write an article on the fundamental interaction between light and vibrations. In it, we explore how traveling acoustic waves can help realize hybrid quantum systems by coupling platforms such as superconducting circuits, quantum dots, and spin systems, and we highlight…