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20162026
most citedA chip-integrated coherent photonic-phononic memory

163 citations · 286 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

physics.optics2026

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in InGaP-on-Insulator Waveguides

Yuyang Xue, Lisa-Sophie Haerteis, Ryan L. Russell +8

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) is a nonlinear interaction between optical and acoustic waves in solids. First regarded as a parasitic process in optical fibers, it has gathe…

physics.optics2025

Brillouin lasers in Bragg grating microresonators

Ryan L. Russell, Moritz Merklein, Choon Kong Lai +5

Chip-scale coherent light sources are required in applications spanning metrology and sensing to telecommunications. Brillouin lasers (BLs) offer a route to ultra-coherent optical…

physics.optics2023★ 24 cited

On-Chip Stimulated Brillouin Scattering via Surface Acoustic Waves

Govert Neijts, Choon Kong Lai, Maren Kramer Riseng +6

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are ubiquitously used for signal processing and filtering, as well as mechanical, chemical and biological sensing, and show promise as quantum t…

physics.optics2023

Brillouin light storage for 100 pulse widths

Birgit Stiller, Kevin Jaksch, Johannes Piotrowski +8

Signal processing based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is limited by the narrow linewidth of the optoacoustic response, which confines many Brillouin applications to cont…

physics.optics2022

Optimizing performance for on-chip SBS-based isolator

Choon Kong Lai, Moritz Merklein, Alvaro Casas Bedoya +5

Non-reciprocal optical components such as isolators and circulators are crucial for preventing catastrophic back-reflection and controlling optical crosstalk in photonic systems. W…

physics.optics2019

Coherently refreshed acoustic phonons for extended light storage

Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein, Christian Wolff +4

Acoustic waves can serve as memory for optical information, however, acoustic phonons in the GHz regime decay on the nanosecond timescale. Usually this is dominated by intrinsic ac…

physics.optics2019★ 42 cited

Brillouin-based phase shifter in a silicon waveguide

Luke Mckay, Moritz Merklein, Alvaro Casas Bedoya +8

Integrated silicon microwave photonics offers great potential in microwave phase shifter elements, and promises compact and scalable multi-element chips that are free from electrom…

physics.app-ph2018★ 27 cited

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

Atiyeh Zarifi, Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein +10

Wavelength-scale SBS waveguides are enabling novel on-chip functionalities. The micro- and nano-scale SBS structures and the complexity of the SBS waveguides require a characteriza…

physics.optics2018

On-chip broadband non-reciprocal light storage

Moritz Merklein, Birgit Stiller, Khu Vu +3

Breaking the symmetry between forward and backward propagating optical modes is of fundamental scientific interest and enables crucial functionalities, such as isolators, circulato…

physics.optics2018★ 17 cited

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

Atiyeh Zarifi, Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein +10

Recent advances in design and fabrication of photonic-phononic waveguides have enabled stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in silicon-based platforms, such as under-etched silico…

physics.optics2018★ 10 cited

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

Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein, Christian Wolff +5

Storing and delaying optical signals plays a crucial role in data centers, phased array antennas, communication and future computing architectures. Here, we show a delay scheme bas…

physics.optics2018★ 3 cited

Crosstalk-free multi-wavelength coherent light storage via Brillouin interaction

Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein, Khu Vu +4

Stimulated Brillouin scattering drives a coherent interaction between optical signals and acoustic phonons and this effect can be used for storing optical information in acoustic w…

physics.optics2017

Highly localized Brillouin scattering response in a photonic integrated circuit

Atiyeh Zarifi, Birgit Stiller, Moritz Merklein +6

The interaction of optical and acoustic waves via stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) has recently reached on-chip platforms, which has opened new fields of applications ranging…

physics.optics2016★ 163 cited

A chip-integrated coherent photonic-phononic memory

Moritz Merklein, Birgit Stiller, Khu Vu +2

Controlling and manipulating quanta of coherent acoustic vibrations - phonons - in integrated circuits has recently drawn a lot of attention, since phonons can function as unique l…