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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. 5 …cannot be shielded or shadowed by planetary masses. Plasma interference seen at planetary entry would be…
  • p. 8 …Change in Centrifugal Force of Orbiting Masses, b.fc1, Replaced by Change in Tangential Force, 4ft…
  • p. 9 …as the particles move through a target mass. The usual difficulty with HFGWs generated by nuclear…
  • p. 10 …to an individual slice, P and its mass, m would be both one hundredth of their…
  • p. 13 …radiation pattern for a pair of orbiting masses. GW l I T GW Figure 4. Radiation…
  • 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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Appendix A: Nomenclature
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amplitude of gravitational wave, metric strain in spacetime, m/m
bandwidth, s-1
magnetic field strength, Tesla
speed of light in vacuum (2.998 x 108 ms- 1)
maximum rate of information transfer, bits per second (bps), s- 1
time of future measurement, s
effective energy contained within the detector cavity summed over the detection
averaging time, J
gravitational-wave flux, Wm- 2
strain, m/m
(strain) detection limit, m/m
Planck's reduced constant 1.055 x 10 34 Js
noise, Wm 2
number of linearly arranged GW radiation elements, integer
number of phase space cases to check for acquisition, integer
number of frequency cases to check for acquisition, integer
number of code sync possibilities to check, integer
number of pairs of oppositely jerking at one-time mass elements, integer
power of the generated gravitational waves, W
temporal quality factor or selectivity of the signal-to-noise ratio, dimensionless
range, m
receiver 1
receiver 2
receiver antenna power efficiency, dimensionless
radiated power efficiency, dimensionless
signal strength, wm- 2
input signal strength, Wm- 2
output signal power, W
distance between two jerking-mass, gravitational-wave radiation elements, m
propagation or transmission-factor losses, dimensionless
acquisition test time per test case, s
integration or signal averaging time, s
transmitter 1
transmitter 2
change in force of a jerking-mass, gravitational-wave radiation element, N
momentum uncertainty, kg-ms 1
time interval, s
initial position uncertainty, m
conversion efficiency (ratio of power of the EM input signal to power of the GW
signal generated), dimensionless
conversion efficiency (ratio of power of the GW input signal to power of the EM
signal generated), dimensionless
wavelength, m
gravitational-wave frequency, s 1
frequency of sensed gravitational waves, s-1
transmitting frequency, s- 1
receiver-sensitivity frequency, s- 1
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