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In this work, we present a novel device that is a combination of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector and a superconducting multi-level memory. We show that these devices can be used to count the number of detections through…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-19 Murat Onen , Marco Turchetti , Brenden A. Butters , Mina R. Bionta , Phillip D. Keathley , Karl K. Berggren

Optical communication systems have come through five orders of magnitude improvement in data rate over the last three decades. The increased demand in data traffic and the limited optoelectronic component bandwidths have led to…

Neural networks and neuromorphic computing play pivotal roles in deep learning and machine vision. Due to their dissipative nature and inherent limitations, traditional semiconductor-based circuits face challenges in realizing ultra-fast…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-21 Sasan Razmkhah , Mustafa Altay Karamuftuoglu , Ali Bozbey

Superconducting devices, which rely on modulating a complex superconducting order parameter in a Josephson junction, have been developed for low power logic operations, high-frequency oscillators, and exquisite magnetic field sensors.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 Burm Baek , William H. Rippard , Samuel P. Benz , Stephen E. Russek , Paul D. Dresselhaus

Optical circuit switching is connection-oriented, being deterministic through the reservation of a complete wavelength channel or spatial path for a certain period. However, this comes at a trade-off against link dynamics, and overall…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-28 Lingzhi Luo , Rui Ma , Richard V. Penty , Qixiang Cheng

Spiking neural networks are known to be superior over artificial neural networks for their computational power efficiency and noise robustness. The benefits of spiking coupled with the high-bandwidth and low-latency of photonics can enable…

Opto-mechanical oscillators that generate coherent acoustic waves are drawing much interest, in both fundamental research and applications. Narrowband oscillations can be obtained through the introduction of feedback to the acoustic wave.…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-16 H. Hagai Diamandi , Yosef London , Gil Bashan , Arik Bergman , Avi Zadok

By exploiting the polarization multistability of polaritons, we show that polarized signals can be conducted in the plane of a semiconductor microcavity along controlled channels or "neurons". Furthermore due to the interaction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-13 T. C. H. Liew , I. A. Shelykh , A. V. Kavokin

Practical quantum networks require low-loss and noise-resilient optical interconnects as well as non-Gaussian resources for entanglement distillation and distributed quantum computation. The latter could be provided by superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 G. Arnold , M. Wulf , S. Barzanjeh , E. S. Redchenko , A. Rueda , W. J. Hease , F. Hassani , J. M. Fink

We present an analogue Very Large Scale Integration (aVLSI) implementation that uses first-order lowpass filters to implement a conductance-based silicon neuron for high-speed neuromorphic systems. The aVLSI neuron consists of a soma (cell…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Runchun Wang , Chetan Singh Thakur , Tara Julia Hamilton , Jonathan Tapson , Andre van Schaik

The extraction of information carried by light plays an increasingly important role in optical communication, imaging, and detection. However, the information can only be successfully extracted when the light pulse is comparably strong,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhen Yang , Zeng-Quan Yan , Li Wang , Xiao-Wei Wang , Ka-Di Zhu , Xian-Min Jin

The superconducting diode effect has garnered significant interest due to its prospective applications in cryogenic electronics and computing, enabling directional supercurrent transport. This phenomenon has been demonstrated across various…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-19 L. Borgongino , R. Seoane Souto , A. Paghi , G. Senesi , K. Skibinska , L. Sorba , E. Riccardi , F. Giazotto , E. Strambini

Microwave photonics is a remarkably powerful system for quantum simulation and technologies, but its integration in superconducting circuits, superior in many aspects, is constrained by the long wavelengths and impedance mismatches in this…

We report a multi-modal spiking neuron that allows optical and electronic input and control, and wavelength-multiplexing operation, for use in novel high-speed neuromorphic sensing and computing functionalities. The photonic-electronic…

Electronic transport through nanostructures is greatly affected by the presence of superconducting leads. If the interface between the nanostructure and the superconductors is sufficiently transparent, a dissipationless current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jorden A. van Dam , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

Our knowledge of the sensory world is encoded by neurons in sequences of discrete, identical pulses termed action potentials or spikes. There is persistent controversy about the extent to which the precise timing of these spikes is relevant…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Ilya Nemenman , Geoffrey D. Lewen , William Bialek , Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck

We investigate a semiconductor $p$-$n$ junction in contact with superconducting leads that is operated under forward bias as a light-emitting diode. The presence of superconductivity results in a significant increase of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 Patrik Hlobil , Peter P. Orth

Photons are ideal carriers of quantum information, as they can be easily created and can travel long distances without being affected by decoherence. For this reason, they are well suited for quantum communication. However, the interaction…

Optical neural networks promise ultrafast, low-energy information processing by performing computation directly with photons. Current implementations, however, are largely restricted to steady-state operation and rely on high-latency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiande Cao , Yexiong Zeng , Franco Nori , Ze-Liang Xiang

Neuromorphic engineering makes use of mixed-signal analog and digital circuits to directly emulate the computational principles of biological brains. Such electronic systems offer a high degree of adaptability, robustness, and energy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Loris Mendolia , Chenxi Wen , Elisabetta Chicca , Giacomo Indiveri , Rodolphe Sepulchre , Jean-Michel Redouté , Alessio Franci