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Another postdeadline paper! This time: at Frontiers in Optics 2023

Happy to announce that the Stiller Lab got another Postdeadline Paper accepted, this time at the Frontiers in Optics 2023 Conference by Optica next week! Xinglin Zeng will present experiments on frequency conversion of orbital angular momentum information using structured acoustic waves!…

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Postdeadline Paper at the Photonics in Switching and Computing PSC 2023!

Postdeadline Paper at the PSC 2023 Conference (Photonics in Switching and Computing): our work on an optoacoustic perceptron for recurrent neural networks with Steven Becker and Dirk Englund from MIT has been accepted for the postdeadline session!

Congratulations Steven!

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Light and sound waves reveal negative pressure

Negative pressure is a rare and challenging-to-detect phenomenon in physics. Using liquid-filled optical fibers and sound waves, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen have now discovered a new method to measure it. In collaboration with the Leibniz…

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New paper on the arXiv: optoacoustics for recurrent neural networks

We report on the first optoacoustic recurrent operator for the application in optical neural networks:

An optoacoustic field-programmable perceptron for recurrent neural networks

Authors: Steven Becker, Dirk Englund and Birgit Stiller

Abstract:
A critical feature in signal processing is the…

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ArXiv: Light storage over 100 pulse widths

Long standing collaboration with a nice group of researchers: our manuscript on "Brillouin light storage for 100 pulse widths" is finally on the arXiv.

Authors: Birgit Stiller, Kevin Jaksch, Johannes Piotrowski, Moritz Merklein, Mikolaj K. Schmidt, Khu Vu, Pan Ma, Stephen Madden, Michael J. Steel,…

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Group summer events

Kayaking group event in the Fränkische Schweiz and testing our new apero hour on Fridays at the institute!

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