Reminder: The 4th Workshop on Optomechanics and Brillouin Scattering (WOMBAT) will be held NEXT WEEK from the 14th - 17th of June at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen. After a virtual workshop in 2021 due to COVID-19, this year we are looking forward to seeing everyone in person again!

Today, Birgit Stiller, together with the directors of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light opened the 4th annual WOMBAT event. On the first day, Gustavo Wiederhecker, Warwick Bowen, Francesca Palumbo and Marc Serra-Garcia started the workshop with tutorials to bring everyone up to speed.

Our WOMBAT event continues. On the second day, we have already heard four fascinating talks by the invited speakers Johannes Fink, Xiaoyi Bao, Sarah Benchabane and Yiwen Chu Hybirds. At 19:30 CET we will also hear a talk from Miles Padgett in our evening lecture at FAU Erlangen-Nbg.

Over 100 attendees are participating in the WOMBAT Workshop. On the third day, we were not only inspired by the talk of the invited speaker Giuliano Scarcelli (Twitter: giuliano scarcelli) but also celebrated 100 years of Brillouin Scattering together with Luc Thevenaz.

Outstanding, and quite moving, talk on the history of the scientists Brillouin and Mandelstam, given by our friend and colleague Luc Thevenaz at WOMBAT 2022.

The fourth and final day of the WOMBAT workshop ended faster than we could have dreamed. An inspiring talk by David Marpaung and an award ceremony brought the event to a worthy end. Many thanks to all participants who joined us at the MPL - we are looking forward to next time!

Looking forward to working with Silvia Viola-Kusminskiy Viola Kusminskiy Group from RWTH Aachen and MPL, Olivier Klein from CEA and 6 other partners on the quadripartite of microwave-magnon-phonon-light processes!

We finally coincided Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light with Francesco Tani and Birgit StillerLab and got to celebrate our recently approved EIC Pathfinders Twistednano and Palantiri with some macarons and coffee :) 🥳

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Our book chapter on "Slow light, dynamic gratings and light storage" is out! authors.elsevier.com/a/1fZgEIOxvdG8…

Laura Blázquez Martínez presenting an inviting talk at ICIQP 2022 in Copenhagen!

Our new publication on topology-selective stimulated Brillouin scattering in Science Advances is online!

A popular article on our research in Laser Focus World! laserfocusworld.com/fiber-optics/a…

Our work on quantum coherent control via Brillouin interactions in waveguides has been published in Physical Review Research!

If you want to know more about thermodynamics measured by light-sound interactions, read our newest publication in Nature Physics! Great collaboration of Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and FAU Erlangen-Nbg with Leibniz-IPHT and J, Markus Schmidt, Mario Chemnitz (inactive as of Oct 2023), @Chris et al.!

Our work on cooling traveling sound waves in optical waveguides is now published in PRL!

Happy to be part of the Henriette Herz Program of the Humboldt Foundation!

Harnessing #soundwaves for #photonic #machinelearning: some years ago we embarked on first ideas of optoacoustics for new physical computation concepts. This particular work shows how all-optically created sound waves provide recurrent functionality to optical #neuralnetworks.