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Defense Intelligence Reference Document High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Communications

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) program, is dated 6 April 2010 and is part of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009. It reviews proposed laboratory generators and detectors of high-frequency gravitational waves for communications. It favors an infrared-excited molecules transmitter and the Li-Baker detector, estimating about 1.9 million bits per second over 7,000 km through the Earth. It also discusses timing standards and interplanetary navigation uses.

  • p. 5 …communications are carried on an extremely narrow beam directly through the Earth, there is a very…
  • p. 9 …Alternatively, a pulsed particle beam, which could include antimatter, could trigger nuclear reactions and build up…
  • p. 15 …Thus a HFGW total flux of l .29x 108 wm· 2 in a very narrow beam…
  • p. 16 …With this configuration, the width of the needle-like, narrow HFGW beam at the receive end…
  • p. 17 …The Birmingham University HFGW detector measures changes in the polarization state of a microwave beam (indicating…
  • p. 19 …The result of the intersection of the parallel and superimposed EM and GW beams, according to…
  • p. 20 …However, with the Li-Effect, there is an additional focused microwave beam ("Gaussian beam") at the…
  • p. 21 …The signal (the PPF) and the noise, or background photon flux (BPF) from the Gaussian beam…
  • p. 23 …Assuming a "best efforts" value of 1000 W for the power of the Gaussian beam in…
  • p. 24 UNCLASSIFIED/ ,'l"e" Cl"l"!e!•t tl9E CHE I beam is much greater than the…
  • p. 25 …A Gaussian (focused, with minimal side lobes) microwave beam (GB) is aimed along the +z-axis…
  • p. 30 …With this configuration, the width of the needle-like, narrow HFGW beam at the receive end…
  • p. 38 …with stronger magnetic fields, more intense Gaussian beams, and better baffles as well as new detector…
  • p. 46 …and Zhao P. (1992), "Interaction Between Narrow Wave Beam-Type High Frequency Gravitational Radiation and Electromagnetic…
  • p. 47 …M Land Fang Z. (2007), "Coupling of an open cavity to a microwave beam: a possible…
  • p. 52 …D01.3 Microwave Transmitter {Gaussian beam) Design of the microwave transmitter for the Gaussian beam, directed…
  • p. 53 …of the interior baffles around the Gaussian beam, and a "tunnel" between fractal-membrane reflectors and…
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According to Cruise (2008) of Birmingham University its frequency is limited to 100 MHz
and at higher frequencies its sensitivity diminishes. In the case of the Infrared-excited
molecules approach, on might employ a variant of the Robinson Gravitational Wave
Background Telescope for the receiver or detector (Yoon, et al., 2006). It is a
bolometric large angular scale Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarimeter, but
might possibly be modifiable for direct HFGW detection.
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2.2.2 Concept (Li-Effect}
The Li-Effect was first published in 1992 and subsequently, some nine peer-reviewed
papers have been published concerning it including a capstone paper, Li, et al. (2008)
included as Appendix C. The Li-Effect is very different from the classical (inverse)
Gertsenshtein-Effect. With the Li-Effect, a gravitational wave transfers energy to a
separately generated electromagnetic (EM) wave in the presence of a static magnetic
field. That EM wave has the same frequency as the GW and moves in the same
direction. This is the "synchro-resonance condition," in which the EM and GW waves are
synchronized (move in the same direction and have the same frequency) and is unlike
the Gertsenshtein- Effect.
The result of the intersection of the parallel and superimposed EM and GW beams,
according to the Li-Effect, is new EM photons moving off in a direction perpendicular to
the beams and the magnetic field directions. Thus, these new photons occupy a
separate region of space (see Figure 12) that can be made essentially noise-free and
the synchro-resonance EM beam itself (in this case a Gaussian beam) is not sensed
there, so it does not interfere with detection of the photons. This Li-Effect was utilized
by Baker (2001) in the design of the Li-Baker HFGW detector and Chinese Patent
(Baker, 2000) of a device to detect HFGWs, the innovative Li-Baker HFGW Detector.
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