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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.

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  • p. 9 …as the particles move through a target mass. The usual difficulty with HFGWs generated by nuclear…
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  • p. 14 …The mass density of pentane is divided by its molecular mass and that gives the density…
  • p. 17 …In 1995 Tobar characterized multi-mode resonant-mass HFGW detectors and three years later in 1998…
  • p. 22 …E/c2 may be substituted for mass in an energy only system. This is depicted in…
  • p. 36 …as strongly affected by the presence of mass. Such a differential propagation delay comparison (between RF…
  • p. 41 …The concept is that the mass essentially "rolls" down a "hill" produced by the static g…
  • p. 47 …V. (2009a), "Lessons for Energy Resonance HFGW Detector Designs Learned from Mass Resonance and Interferometric LFGW…
  • p. 48 …Tobar, M, 1729-1736 E. (1995), "Characterizing multi-mode resonant-mass gravitational wave detectors," Journal of…
  • p. 49 …pairs of oppositely jerking at one-time mass elements, integer power of the generated gravitational waves…
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Contents
Summary .................................................................................................................v
1.0 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1
1.1 Introduction ................................................................................................. 1
1.2 Definition of High-Frequency Gravitational Waves ....................................... 1
2.0 HFGW Communications .................................................................................... 2
2.1 HFGW Generators (Transmitters) ................................................................. 2
2.1.1 HFGW Generator Concepts .................................................................... 2
2.1.2 Alternative Approaches ......................................................................... 6
2.1.3 Piezoelectric Approach .......................................................................... 6
2.1.4 Infrared-Excited Molecules Approach .................................................... 7
2.2 HFGW Detectors (Receivers) ...................................................................... 12
2.2.1 Alternative Approaches ....................................................................... 12
2.2.2 Concept (Li-Effect) .............................................................................. 14
2.2.3 Quantum Back-Action Limit ................................................................. 16
2.2.4 Li-Baker HFGW Detector ...................................................................... 20
3.0 Operational Concerns ..................................................................................... 22
3.1 Link Budget ................................................................................................ 22
3.1.1 Signal-to-Noise Ratio .......................................................................... 22
3.1.2 Link Budget Considerations ................................................................. 23
3.2 Bandwidth .................................................................................................. 25
3.3 Frequency and Time Standard .................................................................... 25
3.3.1 Improvements Accruing from a HFGW Time Standard ......................... 27
3.3.2 Search Space Improvement Accruing From HFGW FTS ........................ 28
3.3.3 The Impact of Phase Noise Improvements on Phase Shift Encoding ... 29
3.3.4 The Impact of Frequency Noise Improvements on FDMA and FHSS ..... 30
3.4 Possible Future Upgrades to the FTS Devices ............................................. 30
3.4.1 Propagating Signals From Optical Lattice Clocks for Timing ................ 31
3.4.2 In Navigating and Mapping Interplanetary Geoids .............................. 31
4.0 Future Potential ............................................................................................. 32
4.1 Developmental Roadmap ............................................................................ 32
4.2 HFGW Communications Predictions to 2050 ............................................... 33
4.3 Interplanetary Navigation and Geoid Mapping to 2050 .............................. 34
4.4 Other Possible H FGW Applications ............................................................. 36
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