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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.
UNCLASSIFIED//EOR OEEICI0L Llili QI\IL¥ disadvantage that this device is of a unique design that is currently available only from Yale University, and is likely not to be exportable. This task will include developing a conceptual design using this alternative type of receiver for the PPF arising from HFRGW. DD1.6 Cryogenic System Specification and design of the cryogenic system refrigeration unit, required for low temperature operation to obtain the best possible reduction in intrinsic thermal noise: Dr. R.C. Woods (LSU) + graduate student, Dr. R. M L Baker (TSC), G.V. Stephenson (TSC). The required criterion is that the temperature T satisfies kBT < < nw (where kB is Boltzmann's constant); that is, T << nw/kB ~ 480mK for detection at 10GHz. This condition is satisfied by the target temperature for the interaction volume T < 48mK, which can be obtained using a common helium-dilution refrigerator. Then, the signal PPF will be significantly greater than the thermal photon flux. Cost/performance tradeoffs may also be important in this design, so that other possible economic solutions to receiver cooling will also be considered before finalizing the design. DDl.6.1 Off-the-shelf cryogenic systems: a number of companies have developed ultra -low temperature systems (mK range) for a variety of appl ications. A common application is refrigeration of receivers as needed in the Li-Baker HFRGW detector. One possibil ity is the Oxford Instruments' KelvinoxMX range (see summary data attached) that appears to suit the present requirements subject to further evaluation of each model in the range. Other manufacturers to be investigated include Scientific Magnetics (UK), and Cryofab Inc. (Kenilworth, New Jersey). DDl.6.2 Specifications for system best suited to the detector: specifications will be established for the selected cryogen ic system. This will include cryogen level monitoring devices (for example, Oxford Instruments Intelligent Level Meter ILM200) for warning if the cooling fails. DD1.7 Electromagnet Development of the electromagnet specification needed to produce the required static magnetic field (up to 35T, ~3T nominal): Or. R.C. Woods (LSU) + graduate student, Dr. R. M L Baker (TSC), G.V. Stephenson (TSC). It is expected that a commercial design can be identified for this task. The chosen design will be capable of providing the requisite magnetic field at least over the interaction cavity volume in the containment vessel. Exceptional field-uniformity is not a particularly important issue in this application, though the GW interaction volume or cavity (roughly cylindrical, 6cm diameter and 30cm long) plus extra volume for the surrounding apparatus is somewhat larger than many other experimental applications require, and the required field is perpendicular to the cylindrical axis. Hence, one solution is that the final solenoid design must completely surround the cyl indrical axis of the interaction volume perpendicular to the applied field. An alternative approach is to use two solenoids, one each side of the interaction volume, similar to the popular Helmholtz coil configuration. In a development of this, a number of small ( ~6cm diameter) solenoids could be stacked along the length of the interaction volume, with their Helmholtz-like opposite paired solenoids the other side of the interaction volume. In the latter cases, since the paired solenoids are not perfect ring coils, the resultant field would be non-uniform. A UNCLASSIFIED/ /FOR OEEICIJ.b HSI!! Dflti 49
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