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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, DIA-08-1004-005, is dated 6 April 2010. The Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office prepared it under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications program. It reviews proposed laboratory generators and detectors for high-frequency gravitational waves. It favors a piezoelectric approach for proof-of-concept tests, IR-excited molecules for an operational transmitter and the Li-Baker detector as the receiver. It estimates about 1.9 million bits per second over 7,000 km through the Earth and discusses timing standards and interplanetary navigation uses.
From the source:Release of 2026-09-18 Incident: 4/6/10, Las Vegas, Nevada. Released with redactions. This document is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD), a technical reference format used by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to capture baseline knowledge on a specific topic for later analytic use. DIRDs are best understood as reference and synthesis products rather than as original research. It is one of 38 DIRDs produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) between 2009 and 2011. Because AAWSAP’s scope permitted a broad range of supporting topics, not every DIRD in the series directly concerns aerospace systems or future threat assessment. The following summary reflects the DIRD’s scope and framing at the time of writing and should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed. This DIRD examines whether high-frequency gravitational waves could serve as a communications medium while avoiding the attenuation that limits radio-frequency systems. The report surveys proposed transmitter and detector concepts, argues that gravitational-wave communications could support secure point-to-point links, timing standards, and interplanetary navigation, and gives particular attention to laboratory generator concepts and the Li-Baker detector as possible building blocks for such a system. The document makes clear, however, that the entire concept depends on capabilities that had not been demonstrated in practice, including laboratory-scale generation and reliable detection of usable high-frequency gravitational-wave signals. It is an exploratory systems-oriented review built around a future communications concept.
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DDl.1.2 Detailed design of brackets and fixtures for the internal equipment,
wiring, piping and through-wall connections: the general principles demonstrated
by existing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system designs (for example, from
Siemens MRI, GE Healthcare, and others) will be followed to determine the most
compatible design of the internal equipment, wiring, piping and through-wall
connections for the HFGW detector. A cryostat or cryogenic containment vessel
supported inside the vacuum vessel will house the superconducting magnet assembly
necessary for the Li-Baker detector. Through-wall fittings and seals for copper leads
supplying the magnet and other internal apparatus will be needed. Design of brackets,
wiring, and piping of detector equipment will also be based upon input from the other
tasks .
DDl.1.3 Design of vacuum system: there are a large number of "off-the shelf"
Ultra-High Vacuum (UHV) equ ipment providers such as: Varian, Inc. (Lexington,
Massachusetts), Kimball Physics, Inc. (Wilton, New Hampshire), and Edwards High
Vacuum Ltd. (UK), amongst others. Those with capability for producing a system able
to evacuate the chamber to about 10-7Torr for the HFRGW detector will be approached
to undertake a detailed specification.
DDl.1.4 Detailed design of size and shape of containment vessel: determination
of the containment vessel's precise dimensions will be based upon the final designs of
the equipment determined by the other tasks and will integrate all the specific sub-task
designs, resolving any conflicts between units.
D01.2 Signal Processing
Design of the recording apparatus hardware and software development that will be
needed to handle merging the two receiver inputs over an averaging period of up to
1,000s: Dr. R. M L Baker (TSC), G.V. Stephenson (TSC). This will require the
conceptual design of digitizing hardware and software to handle the data gathered,
including the combination of multiple receiver signals, the use of delay histograms,
statistica l filtering techn iques, and the study of false alarm pitfalls in non-linear signal
processing. There is much overlap with this area and DDl.5, the design of the detection
receivers. The expected GW signal structure must be characterized to optimize the
matched filtering needed. The definition of a detection event is the foremost
consideration, and will be studied both in terms of the threshold level and in terms of
the statistics of exceeding that level. Expected signal to noise enhancements
("processing gain") will be investigated for various filtering and processing options, and
the effect of the Q-factor inherent in the detection apparatus will be included in this
area of the investigation. Linear processing techniques such as multiple receiver
combination and delay histogram searches will be studied, and nonlinear signal
processing will also be considered, including its effect on detectability, as well as its
effect on false alarm generation. This task includes the selection of the best computing
and digitizing recorder platforms for the signal-processing needed. Also under this task
is an investigation of whether magnetic field modulation can be used to advantage in
this detector. Any scattered BPF does not depend upon the applied magnetic field or on
the GW. Therefore, the wanted PPF can be "labeled" by varying the applied (nominally
static) magnetic field in some way. A common technique in magnetic resonance
experiments is to use field modulation coils that superimpose upon the constant applied
magnetic field a time-varying component at low frequency (for example, around S0Hz
but asynchronous with the commercial power supply frequency). As a result, the PPF is
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