Dr. Birgit Stiller
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FAU LMQ People Spotlight: Birgit Stiller
In this FAU LMQ People Spotlight, we interviewed our member Birgit Stiller, who leads the Quantum Optoacoustics Group at the…
FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Photonic computing needs more nonlinearity: acoustics can help
Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely used and designed to augment human skills such as data analysis, text generation and image…
International Day of Light 2025 on May 16th
The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and the Zukunftsmuseum | Deutsches Museum Nürnberg celebrate the International Year…
FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Entangling light and sound
Quantum entanglement is a prerequisite for a wide variety of emerging quantum technologies, such as secure quantum communications or quantum…
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…
Towards the quantum of sound
A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light led by Dr. Birgit Stiller has…
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…
Publications
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Guided nonlinear optics for information processing
In: Nanophotonics 14 (2025), p. 2709-2710
ISSN: 2192-8614
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2025-0348 - , , , , , , :
Optoacoustic Building Blocks for Photonic Neural Networks
2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025 (Munich, DEU, 23. June 2025 – 27. June 2025)
In: 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025 2025
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC65582.2025.11111266 - , , , , , , , , :
Time Dynamics of Magnon-Mediated Information Transfer from Microwave to Optical Domain
2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2025 (Long Beach, CA, USA, 4. May 2025 – 9. May 2025)
In: 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2025 2025 - , , :
Cavity-less Brillouin strong coupling in a solid-state continuous system
2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025 (Munich, DEU, 23. June 2025 – 27. June 2025)
In: 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025 2025
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC65582.2025.11109157 - , , , , :
Brillouin-Based Storage of QPSK Signals with Fully Tunable Phase Retrieval
2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2025 (Long Beach, CA, USA, 4. May 2025 – 9. May 2025)
In: 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2025 2025 - , , , , :
Brillouin-based storage of QPSK signals with fully tunable phase retrieval
In: APL Photonics 10 (2025), Article No.: 060802
ISSN: 2378-0967
DOI: 10.1063/5.0241508 - , , , :
All-optical nonlinear activation function based on stimulated Brillouin scattering
In: Nanophotonics (2025)
ISSN: 2192-8614
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2024-0513 - , , :
Frequency conversion of vortex states by chiral flexural acoustic phonons
In: Photonics Research 13 (2025), p. 1997-2012
ISSN: 2327-9125
DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.557205 - , :
Brillouin-enhanced four-wave mixing with optical chiral states
In: APL Photonics 10 (2025), Article No.: 076119
ISSN: 2378-0967
DOI: 10.1063/5.0265616 - , :
Quantum memory in Brillouin-active waveguides
2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025 (Munich, DEU, 23. June 2025 – 27. June 2025)
In: 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025 2025
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC65582.2025.11111338
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Deep recurrent neural networks operations based on stimulated Brillouin scattering
CLEO: Science and Innovations in CLEO 2024, CLEO: S and I 2024 – Part of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (Charlotte, NC, USA, 5. May 2024 – 10. May 2024)
In: CLEO: Science and Innovations, CLEO: S and I 2024 in Proceedings CLEO 2024, Part of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2024 - , , :
An optoacoustic field-programmable perceptron for recurrent neural networks
In: Nature Communications 15 (2024), Article No.: 3020
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47053-6 - , , , , :
Optoacoustic Cooling of Traveling Hypersound Waves
In: Physical Review Letters 132 (2024), Article No.: 023603
ISSN: 0031-9007
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.023603 - , , :
High-Speed Coherent Photonic Random-Access Memory in Long-Lasting Sound Waves
In: ACS Photonics (2024)
ISSN: 2330-4022
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00478 - , , , :
Eavesdropper localization for quantum and classical channels via nonlinear scattering
In: Optica Quantum 2 (2024), p. 21
ISSN: 2837-6714
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICAQ.502944 - , , :
Optoacoustic Entanglement in a Continuous Brillouin-Active Solid State System
In: Physical Review Letters 133 (2024), Article No.: 203602
ISSN: 0031-9007
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.203602 - , , :
Optoacoustic entanglement in Brillouin-active waveguides
Quantum 2.0, QUANTUM 2024 in Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition (Rotterdam, NLD, 23. June 2024 – 27. June 2024)
In: Quantum 2.0 in Proceedings Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition 2024
DOI: 10.1364/quantum.2024.qm5a.5
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Order of Magnitude Increase in Storage Time of Photonic-Phononic Memory
2023 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing, PSC 2023 (Mantova, 26. September 2023 – 29. September 2023)
In: 2023 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing, PSC 2023 2023
DOI: 10.1109/PSC57974.2023.10297243 - , , :
Implementation of an optoacoustic activation function based on stimulated Brillouin scattering
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 (Munich, DEU, 26. June 2023 – 30. June 2023)
In: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 2023
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC57999.2023.10232324 - , , , , , , , , :
Extreme thermodynamics in nanolitre volumes through stimulated Brillouin–Mandelstam scattering
In: Nature Physics (2023)
ISSN: 1745-2473
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02205-1 - , , , , :
Optoacoustic active cooling in waveguides
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 (Munich, DEU, 26. June 2023 – 30. June 2023)
In: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 2023
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC57999.2023.10231759 - , , :
Localizing Eavesdroppers Inside a Quantum Channel Using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) (München, 26. June 2023 – 30. June 2023)
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/Europe-EQEC57999.2023.10232821 - , , , :
Photonic Activation Function Using Sound Waves
2023 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing, PSC 2023 (Mantova, ITA, 26. September 2023 – 29. September 2023)
In: 2023 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing, PSC 2023 2023
DOI: 10.1109/PSC57974.2023.10297228 - :
Guided Brillouin interactions – from optical vortex isolators to extreme thermodynamics
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 (Munich, DEU, 26. June 2023 – 30. June 2023)
In: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 2023
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC57999.2023.10232221 - , , , , , , , :
Optical Vortex Brillouin Laser
In: Laser & Photonics Reviews (2023)
ISSN: 1863-8880
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202200277 - , , , , :
Inter-vortex forward Brillouin scattering by chiral flexural phonons in twisted photonic crystal fibre
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2023 (San Jose, CA, USA, 7. May 2023 – 12. May 2023)
In: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2023 2023 - , , :
Inter-vortex forward Brillouin scattering by chiral phonons
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 (Munich, DEU, 26. June 2023 – 30. June 2023)
In: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 2023
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC57999.2023.10232268 - , , :
Nonreciprocal vortex conversion and frequency shifting using light-driven chiral flexural waves
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2023 (San Jose, CA, USA, 7. May 2023 – 12. May 2023)
In: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2023 2023 - , :
Frequency conversion of vortex states via chiral forward Brillouin scattering
Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2023, FiO, LS 203: Part of Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2023 (Tacoma, WA, USA, 9. October 2023 – 12. October 2023)
In: Frontiers in Optics: Proceedings Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2023, FiO, LS 2023 2023
DOI: 10.1364/FIO.2023.JTu7B.4 - , , , , , , :
Spin-orbit interaction in nanofiber-based Brillouin scattering
In: Optics Express 31 (2023), p. 22284-22295
ISSN: 1094-4087
DOI: 10.1364/OE.486550 - , , , :
Quantum coherent control in pulsed waveguide optomechanics
In: Physical Review Research 5 (2023), Article No.: 013010
ISSN: 2643-1564
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.013010 - , :
Dynamic Brillouin cooling for continuous optomechanical systems
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 (München, 26. June 2023 – 30. June 2023)
In: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 2023
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC57999.2023.10232175 - , , , :
Quantum coherent control in pulsed waveguide optomechanics for photon-phonon entanglement via Brillouin scattering
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 (Munich, DEU, 26. June 2023 – 30. June 2023)
In: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 2023
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC57999.2023.10231512 - , :
Dynamic Brillouin cooling for continuous optomechanical systems
In: Materials for Quantum Technology 3 (2023), Article No.: 015003
ISSN: 2633-4356
DOI: 10.1088/2633-4356/acc2a5
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Thermodynamic Control of Nanoliter Volumes of CS2 via Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
Frontiers in Optics, FiO 2022 (Rochester, NY, 17. October 2022 – 20. October 2022)
In: Optics InfoBase Conference Papers 2022
DOI: 10.1364/FIO.2022.JTu4A.59
URL: https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=FiO-2022-JTu4A.59 - , , , , , , , :
Stimulated Brillouin scattering in chiral photonic crystal fiber
In: Photonics Research 10 (2022), p. 711-718
ISSN: 2327-9125
DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.443706 - , , , , :
Nonreciprocal light-driven vortex isolator
CLEO: Science and Innovations, S and I 2022 (San Jose, CA, USA, 15. May 2022 – 20. May 2022)
In: Optics InfoBase Conference Papers 2022 - , , , , , :
Nonreciprocal vortex isolator via topology-selective stimulated Brillouin scattering
In: Science Advances 8 (2022), p. eabq6064-
ISSN: 2375-2548
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq6064