Category: Publications

12. November 2024

FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Strong light-matter coupling with sugar-coated metamaterials

Recent results published in Nature Communications, bring researchers closer to being technologically able to harvest some of the unique properties of systems falling in a hybrid quantum state of both…

30. October 2024

FAU LMQ News FAU LMQ Research Spotlight Publications Research Stefan Will

FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Watch soot grow – nanoparticles in the laser spotlight

Soot particles originate from incomplete combustion, for example in engines or wildland fires, and pose a pollutant harmful to human health and significantly contributing to climate change. In their recent…

22. October 2024

FAU LMQ News FAU LMQ Research Spotlight Pascal Del'Haye Publications Research

FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Tracking the Color of Light-Breakthrough in Precision Broadband Laser Spectroscopy

In a recent publication, Dr. Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi, and Dr. Pascal Del’Haye from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have developed an innovative broadband spectroscopy method…

7. October 2024

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FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: How to overcome the efficiency limits in ultraviolet LEDs

Light emitting diodes (LEDs) provide an efficient way to convert electrical to optical power. Aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) LEDs produce ultraviolet (UV) radiation and will improve environmental, medical and industrial…

18. September 2024

FAU LMQ News FAU LMQ Research Spotlight Florian Marquardt Publications Research

FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Neural networks made of light

The increasing size of neural networks for deep learning applications and their energy consumption create a need for alternative neuromorphic approaches, for example, using optics. In their work, Clara Wanjura…

13. August 2024

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FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Understanding resonance in light-matter interactions

The interaction between light and matter is one of the oldest research areas of quantum mechanics, and a field that just keeps on delivering new insights and applications. With the…

29. July 2024

FAU LMQ News FAU LMQ Research Spotlight Maria Chekhova Publications Research

FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: A liquid crystal source of photon pairs

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) – the splitting of a single photon in two – is crucial for photonic quantum technologies. In its very essence, SPDC breaks the inversion symmetry. It…

5. July 2024

FAU LMQ News FAU LMQ Research Spotlight Kai Phillip Schmidt Publications Research

FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Picky light – how light ignores interactions of matter

In their recent work, Andreas Schellenberger and Kai Phillip Schmidt investigate correlated light-matter quantum systems introducing additional matter-matter interactions. Their key finding is that the matter-matter interactions do not play a role in the emerging light-matter physics at low energies for the investigated case of macroscopic systems and small light-matter couplings.

Artist’s impression of optoacoustic computing. (© Long Huy Dao)

10. May 2024

Birgit Stiller FAU LMQ News Publications Research

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 potential will require further advances. One challenge is the reconfigurability…

Artist’s impression of cooled acoustic waves in an optical fiber taper (© Long Huy Dao)

8. May 2024

Birgit Stiller FAU LMQ News Publications Research

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 succeeded in cooling traveling sound waves in waveguides considerably further…