Research
Projects
We explore opportunities for unconventional information processing systems enabled by emerging photonic integration platforms.
Neuromorphic Photonics
Neuromorphic photonics combines photonic device physics with distributed processing models, resulting in a new class of ultrafast information processors. Key research includes laying out neuromorphic systems, packaging and controlling them, and demonstrating information processing functions.
Cryogenic Photonics
Cryogenic silicon photonics brings together a new set of superconducting and optoelectronic phenomena with applications to integrated quantum information science. A particular focus is on silicon light sources. Silicon does not emit light at room temperature. Silicon light sources could be a next step in fully monolithic optoelectronic systems.
Optical Cryostat Instrumentation
Experiments on light-emitting integrated photonic devices present methodology challenges. The cryostat must reconcile needs for high cooling power with low mechanical coupling to the cryocooler. We develop custom sample mounts, feedthroughs, and thermal anchoring methods to modify a commercial low-vibration optical cryostat, for example, a quick-install 40-count electrical feedthrough.
