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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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4.0 Future Potential
4.1 DEVELOPMENTAL ROADMAP
A development roadmap is suggested here for the application of High Frequency
Gravitational Waves (HFGWs) in the field of communications. The development
roadmap should be twofold:
• Theoretical work should continue on HFGW transmitters (generators) and receivers
(detectors).
• Experimental devices should be built and tested in the laboratory and then
transitioned over to a practical communications system.
A suggested developmental roadmap schedule and phasing timeline is included as
Figure 24. Theoretical research is always an ongoing enterprise, but it is especially
important to encourage work in the development of experimental approaches aimed at
demonstrating laboratory generation and sensing of gravitational waves for the next
few years. This is the kind of academic work that is best done in a research university
setting, at least for the next ten years or so, until laboratory experiments can verify
laboratory generation. Without early confirmation the technology will not gain
widespread acceptance and move forward.
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