Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper introduces a novel family of devices for ultra-fast, ultra-sensitive and ultra-low-noise optoelectronics, namely superconductive traveling-wave photodetectors (STWPDs). STWPDs can be optimized for ultra-wideband/ultra-sensitive photodetection, photomixing and microwave/THz waveform generation. An STWPD is a distributed device, both electrically and optically, which consists of a superconductive thin film kinetic-inductive photodetector integrated with a microwave/THz transmission line and an optical waveguide. We will present the principles of operation of STWPDs, a framework to calculate the input-output relation and the effects of the modal characteristics of the optical propagation on the device performance. Moreover, we will elaborate on how one can design an STWPD for each of the aforementioned applications. Different strategies for the design of the optical waveguide as well as some important design rules will also be discussed. We will report the current status of STWPDs and point out some key issues that should be met in the future for further development.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".