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Low-loss, high-bandwidth fiber-to-chip coupling using capped adiabatic tapered fibers

May 1, 2020
Author(s)
Saeed Khan, Jeff Shainline, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Sonia Buckley, Jeff Chiles
We demonstrate adiabatically tapered fibers terminating in sub-micron tips that are clad with a higher-index material for coupling to an on-chip waveguide. This cladding enables coupling to a high-index waveguide without losing light to the buried oxide. A

Design of superconducting optoelectronic networks for neuromorphic computing

November 6, 2018
Author(s)
Sonia Buckley, Adam McCaughan, Jeff Chiles, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Jeff Shainline
We have previously proposed a novel hardware platform for neuromorphic computing based on superconducting optoelectronics that presents many of the features necessary for information processing in the brain. Here we discuss the design and training of

Circuit designs for superconducting optoelectronic loop neurons

October 12, 2018
Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Shainline, Adam N. McCaughan, Jeffrey T. Chiles, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Sonia M. Buckley
We present designs of superconducting optoelectronic neurons based on superconducting single- photon detectors, Josephson junctions, semiconductor light sources, and multi-planar dielectric waveguides. The neurons send few-photon signals to synaptic

Superconducting optoelectronic networks III: synaptic plasticity

July 5, 2018
Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Shainline, Adam N. McCaughan, Sonia M. Buckley, Christine A. Donnelly, Manuel C. Castellanos Beltran, Michael L. Schneider, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
As a means of dynamically reconfiguring the synaptic weight of a superconducting optoelectronic loop neuron, a superconducting flux storage loop is inductively coupled to the synaptic current bias of the neuron. A standard flux memory cell is used to

Superconducting optoelectronic networks V: networks and scaling

May 17, 2018
Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Shainline, Jeffrey T. Chiles, Sonia M. Buckley, Adam N. McCaughan, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
Networks of superconducting optoelectronic neurons are investigated for their near-term technological potential and long-term physical limitations. Networks with short average path length, high clustering coefficient, and power-law degree distribution are

Superconducting optoelectronic networks IV: transmitter circuits

May 9, 2018
Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Shainline, Adam N. McCaughan, Sonia M. Buckley, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Amir Jafari-Salim
A superconducting optoelectronic neuron will produce a small current pulse upon reaching threshold. We present an amplifier chain which converts this small current pulse to a voltage pulse sufficient to produce light from a semiconductor diode. This light

Superconducting optoelectronic networks I: general principles

April 6, 2018
Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Shainline, Sonia M. Buckley, Adam N. McCaughan, Jeffrey T. Chiles, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
The design of neural hardware is informed by the prominence of differentiated processing and information integration in cognitive systems. The central role of communication leads to the principal assumption of the hardware platform: signals between neurons

Superconducting optoelectronic networks II: receiver circuits

April 6, 2018
Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Shainline, Sonia M. Buckley, Adam N. McCaughan, Manuel C. Castellanos Beltran, Christine A. Donnelly, Michael L. Schneider, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
Circuits using superconducting single-photon detectors and Josephson junctions to perform signal reception, synaptic weighting, and integration are investigated. The circuits convert photon-detection events into flux quanta, the number of which is

All-silicon light-emitting diodes waveguide-integrated with superconducting single-photon detectors

October 2, 2017
Author(s)
Sonia M. Buckley, Jeffrey T. Chiles, Adam N. McCaughan, Galan Moody, Kevin L. Silverman, Martin J. Stevens, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Jeffrey M. Shainline
An on-chip, silicon-compatible light source has long been pursued for telecommunications, with limited success. However, for integrated systems utilizing superconducting detectors, cryogenic operation is already required. This allows these systems to