Publications


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2024

Optoacoustic Cooling of Traveling Hypersound Waves

Laura Blázquez Martínez, Philipp Wiedemann, Changlong Zhu, Andreas Geilen, Birgit Stiller

Physical Review Letters 132 023603 (2024) | Journal | PDF



2023

Extreme thermodynamics in nanolitre volumes through stimulated Brillouin–Mandelstam scattering

Andreas Geilen, Alexandra Popp, Debavan Das, Saher Junaid, Christopher G. Poulton, Mario Chemnitz, Christoph Marquardt, Markus A. Schmidt, Birgit Stiller

Nature Physics 19 1805-1812 (2023) | Journal | PDF


Spin-orbit interaction in nanofiber-based Brillouin scattering

Maxime Zerbib, Maxime Romanet, Thibaut Sylvestre, Christian Wolff, Birgit Stiller, Jean-Charles Beugnot, Kien Phan Huy

Optics Express 31(14) 22284-22295 (2023)


Dynamic Brillouin cooling for continuous optomechanical systems

Changlong Zhu, Birgit Stiller

Materials for Quantum Technology 3 015003 (2023) | Journal | PDF


Optical Vortex Brillouin Laser

Xinglin Zeng, Philip Russell, Yang Chen, Zheqi Wang, Gordon Wong, Paul Roth, Michael Frosz, Birgit Stiller

Laser & Photonics Reviews 2200277 (2023) | Journal | PDF


Quantum coherent control in pulsed waveguide optomechanics

Junyin Zhang, Changlong Zhu, Christian Wolff, Birgit Stiller

Physical Review Research 5(1) 013010 (2023) | Journal | PDF



2022

Nonreciprocal vortex isolator via topology-selective stimulated Brillouin scattering

Xinglin Zeng, Philip Russell, Christian Wolff , Michael Frosz, Gordon Wong, Birgit Stiller

Science Advances 8(42) eabq6064 (2022) | Journal


Stimulated Brillouin scattering in chiral photonic crystal fiber

Xinglin Zeng, Wenbin He, Michael Frosz, Andreas Geilen, Paul Roth, Gordon Wong, Philip Russell, Birgit Stiller

Photonics Research 10(3) 711-718 (2022) | Journal



2021

Picosecond acoustic dynamics in stimulated Brillouin scattering

Johannes Piotrowski, Mikołaj K Schmidt, Birgit Stiller, Christopher G. Poulton, Michael Steel

Optics Letters 46(12) 2972-2975 (2021) | Journal | PDF


Brillouin scattering - theory and experiment: tutorial

C. Wolff, M.J.A. Smith, Birgit Stiller, C. G. Poulton

Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics 38(4) 1243-1269 (2021) | Journal


Agile and versatile quantum communication: Signatures and secrets

Stefan Richter, Matthew Thornton, Imran Khan, Hamish Scott, Kevin Jaksch, Ulrich Vogl, Birgit Stiller, Gerd Leuchs, Christoph Marquardt, et al.

Physical Review X 11(1) 011038 (2021) | Journal | PDF



2020

On-chip broadband nonreciprocal light storage

Moritz Merklein, Birgit Stiller, Khu Vu, Pan Ma, Stephen J. Madden, Benjamin J. Eggleton

Nanophotonics 10(1) 75-82 (2020) | Journal | PDF


Coherently refreshed acoustic phonons for extended light storage

Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein, Christian Wolff, Khu Vu, Pan Ma, Stephen J. Madden, Benjamin J. Eggleton

Optica 7(5) 492-497 (2020) | Journal | PDF



2019

Coherently refreshed acoustic phonons for extended light storage

Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein, Christian Wolff, Khu Vu, Pan Ma, Stephen J. Madden, Benjamin J. Eggleton

arXiv: 1904.13167v1 Preprint | PDF


Cross talk-free coherent multi-wavelength Brillouin interaction

Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein, Khu Vu, Pan Ma, Stephen J. Madden, Christopher G. Poulton, Benjamin J. Eggleton

APL PHOTONICS 4(4) 040802 (2019) | Journal


On-chip correlation-based Brillouin sensing: design, experiment, and simulation

Atiyeh Zarifi, Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein, Yang Liu, Blair Morrison, Alvaro Casas-Bedoya, Guanghui Ren, Thach G. Nguyen, Khu Vu, et al.

JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS 36(1) 146-152 (2019) | Journal



2018

High Resolution Brillouin Sensing of Micro-Scale Structures

Atiyeh Zarifi, Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein, Benjamin J. Eggleton

APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 8(12) 2572 (2018) | Journal


On-chip multi-stage optical delay based on cascaded Brillouin light storage

Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein, Christian Wolff, Khu Vu, Pan Ma, Christopher G. Poulton, Stephen J. Madden, Benjamin J. Eggleton

OPTICS LETTERS 43(18) 4321-4324 (2018) | Journal


Brillouin spectroscopy of a hybrid silicon-chalcogenide waveguide with geometrical variations

Atiyeh Zarifi, Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein, Yang Liu, Blair Morrison, Alvaro Casas-Bedoya, Guanghui Ren, Thach G. Nguyen, Khu Vu, et al.

OPTICS LETTERS 43(15) 3493-3496 (2018) | Journal


Brillouin-based light storage and delay techniques

Moritz Merklein, Birgit Stiller, Benjamin J. Eggleton

Journal of Optics 20(8) 083003 (2018) | Journal


Highly localized distributed Brillouin scattering response in a photonic integrated circuit

Atiyeh Zarifi, Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein, Neuton Li, Khu Vu, Duk-Yong Choi, Pan Ma, Stephen J. Madden, Benjamin J. Eggleton

APL PHOTONICS 3(3) 036101 (2018) | Journal



2017

A chip-integrated coherent photonic-phononic memory

Moritz Merklein, Birgit Stiller, Khu Vu, Stephen J. Madden, Benjamin J. Eggleton

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 8 574 (2017) | Journal


Cascaded forward Brillouin scattering to all Stokes orders

Christian Wolff, Birgit Stiller, Benjamin J. Eggleton, M. J. Steel, C. G. Poulton

New Journal of Physics 19 023021 (2017) | Journal


Temporal and spectral properties of quantum light

B. Stiller, U. Seyfarth, G. Leuchs, C. Fabre, V. Sandoghdar, N. Treps, L.F. Cugliandolo

Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics 169-227 (2017) | Book Chapter | PDF


Quantum-limited measurements of optical signals from a geostationary satellite

Kevin Guenthner, Imran Khan, Dominique Elser, Birgit Stiller, Oemer Bayraktar, Christian R. Mueller, Karen Saucke, Daniel Troendle, Frank Heine, et al.

OPTICA 4(6) 611-616 (2017) | Journal



2016

Widely tunable, low phase noise microwave source based on a photonic chip

Moritz Merklein, Birgit Stiller, Irina V. Kabakova, Udara S. Mutugala, Khu Vu, Stephen J. Madden, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Radan Slavik

OPTICS LETTERS 41(20) 4633-4636 (2016) | Journal


Attacks on practical quantum key distribution systems (and how to prevent them)

Nitin Jain, Birgit Stiller, Imran Khan, Dominique Elser, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs

CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS 57(3) 366-387 (2016) | Journal


Efficient microwave to optical photon conversion: an electro-optical realization

Alfredo Rueda, Florian Sedlmeir, Michele C. Collodo, Ulrich Vogl, Birgit Stiller, Gerhard Schunk, Dmitry V. Strekalov, Christoph Marquardt, Johannes M. Fink, et al.

OPTICA 3(6) 597-604 (2016) | Journal



2015

Classically entangled optical beams for high-speed kinematic sensing

Stefan Berg-Johansen, Falk Toeppel, Birgit Stiller, Peter Banzer, Marco Ornigotti, Elisabeth Giacobino, Gerd Leuchs, Andrea Aiello, Christoph Marquardt

OPTICA 2(10) 864-868 (2015) | Journal


Risk Analysis of Trojan-Horse Attacks on Practical Quantum Key Distribution Systems

Nitin Jain, Birgit Stiller, Imran Khan, Vadim Makarov, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs

IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS 21(3) 6600710 (2015) | Journal


Depolarized guided acoustic wave Brillouin scattering in hollow-core photonic crystal fibers

Wenjia Elser Nee Zhong, Birgit Stiller, Dominique Elser, Bettina Heim, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs

OPTICS EXPRESS 23(21) UNSP 247705 27707-27714 (2015) | Journal



2014

Phase regeneration of a star-8QAM signal in a phase-sensitive amplifier with conjugated pumps

B. Stiller, G. Onishchukov, B. Schmauss, G. Leuchs

Optics Express 22(1) 1028-1035 (2014) | Journal



2013

Distributed Brillouin Fiber Sensor With Enhanced Sensitivity Based on Anti-Stokes Single-Sideband Suppressed-Carrier Modulation

Minh Duc Nguyen, Birgit Stiller, Min Won Lee, Jean-Charles Beugnot, Herve Maillotte, Alexandre Mottet, Jerome Hauden, Thibaut Sylvestre

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS 25(1) 94-96 (2013) | Journal


Observation of acoustically induced modulation instability in a Brillouin photonic crystal fiber laser

Birgit Stiller, Thibaut Sylvestre

OPTICS LETTERS 38(9) 1570-1572 (2013) | Journal


Long-range and high-resolution distributed Brillouin fiber sensors

T. Sylvestre, M. W. Lee, D. M. Nguyen, Birgit Stiller, J.-C. Beugnot, H. Maillotte, J. Hauden, L. Thévenaz

Instrumentation Mesure Métrologie 13(1-2) 31-45 (2013) | Journal



2012

Demonstration of polarization pulling using a fiber-optic parametric amplifier

Birgit Stiller, P. Morin, D. M. Nguyen, J. Fatome, S. Pitois, E. Lantz, H. Maillotte, C. R. Menyuk, T. Sylvestre

Optics Express 20(24) 27248-27253 (2012) | Journal


SBS Mitigation in a Microstructured Optical Fiber by Periodically Varying the Core Diameter

Birgit Stiller, Alexandre Kudlinski, Min Won Lee, Geraud Bouwmans, Michael Delque, Jean-Charles Beugnot, Herve Maillotte, Thibaut Sylvestre

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS 24(8) 667-669 (2012) | Journal


Black-light continuum generation in a silica-core photonic crystal fiber

T. Sylvestre, A. R. Ragueh, M. W. Lee, Birgit Stiller, G. Fanjoux, B. Barviau, A. Mussot, A. Kudlinski

Optics Letters 37(2) 130-132 (2012) | Journal


Differential Phase-Shift-Keying Technique-Based Brillouin Echo-Distributed Sensing

Min Won Lee, Birgit Stiller, Jerome Hauden, Herve Maillotte, Carole Roch, Luc Thevenaz, Thibaut Sylvestre

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS 24(1) 79-81 (2012) | Journal



2011

Temperature coefficient of the high-frequency guided acoustic mode in a photonic crystal fiber

Emile Carry, Jean-Charles Beugnot, Birgit Stiller, Min W. Lee, Herve Maillotte, Thibaut Sylvestre

APPLIED OPTICS 50(35) 6543-6547 (2011) | Journal


Frequency-selective excitation of guided acoustic modes in a photonic crystal fiber

Birgit Stiller, M. Delqué, J.-C. Beugnot, M. W. Lee, G. Mélin, H. Maillotte, V. Laude, T. Sylvestre

Optics Express 19(8) 7689-7694 (2011) | Journal


Son et lumière dans les fibres optiques microstructurées

Birgit Stiller

Prix A'Doc de la jeune recherche en Franche-Comté n° 2011 123-142 (2011)



2010

Photonic crystal fiber mapping using Brillouin echoes distributed sensing

Birgit Stiller, S. Foaleng-Mafang, J.-C. Beugnot, M. W. Lee, M. Delqué, A. Kudlinski, L. Thévenaz, H. Maillotte, T. Sylvestre

Optics Express 18(19) 20136-20142 (2010) | Journal


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