TABLE OF CONTENTS
vi
Personnel
Publications and Reports
xiv
Introduction
xix
GENERAL PHYSICS
I.
1
Molecular Beams
Diffusion of He
3
in Superfluid Background
Field Distribution Measurements by the Atomic -Beam Method
II.
III.
Microwave Spectroscopy
Flux-Flow Noise in Superconducting Bolometers
3
7
9
10
Atomic Resonance and Scattering
Alkali-Molecule Scattering - Preliminary Results
Effect of Binding on the Magnetic Moment of the Electron
13
Molecular-Beam Studies of Van der Waals Molecules
20
Merging Atomic Beams
24
Metastable Helium Source
26
Multiple -Resolution Velocity Selector
27
13
16
IV.
Interatomic Forces
31
V.
Radio Astronomy
Line of Interstellar Hydrogen
S
2 2 2/2
Search for the 2 2 P3/
Effects of Clouds on Indirect Sensing of Atmospheric
Temperature
Optical Stellar Interferometer
33
34
Solid -State Microwave Electronics
Instrumentation - Status of Research
47
Experimental Broadband Mixer
48
VI.
VII.
Cooperative Phenomena in Solids and Fluids
44
47
49
51
VIII. Gravitation Research
Monolithic Capacitive Grid Interference Filters for the
Far Infrared
Far Infrared Detection by Parametric Up-conversion
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iii
52
54
CONTENTS
IX.
Magnetic Resonance
59
X.
Physical Electronics and Surface Physics
61
XI.
Physical Acoustics
63
XII.
XIII.
The Possibility of Resonance Dispersion of Hypersonic
Waves in Liquids
63
Interaction of Acoustic Surface Waves with Electron
Surface Waves
67
Techniques for Measuring Density Fluctuations in Jets
70
Electrodynamics of Media
Laser Applications
73
75
PLASMA DYNAMICS
XIV.
Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion
Waves and Radiation
79
Linear and Nonlinear Response of a Plasma Sheath
to RF Potentials
79
New Views on the Self-Consistent Electrostatic Problem
90
Diffusion and Turbulence
Superconducting Quadrupole Magnet
Plasma Diagnostics
Optical Satellites Induced in a Plasma through the Action
of Intense, High-Frequency Electric Fields
99
100
105
105
Fusion-Related Studies
112
Feedback Stabilization
113
High -Temperature Toroidal Plasmas
114
Density Expansion of the Exact Master Equation
XV.
79
Gaseous Electronics
115
119
Time-Dependent Characteristics of Pulsed Ion Lasers
119
Electron Density Measurements in Pulsed Argon Ion
Lasers
122
XVI.
Relativistic Beams
127
XVII.
Applied Plasma Research
129
Active Plasma Systems
129
Plasma Physics and Engineering
131
Plasma Effects in Solids
133
Observation of Interaction between Acoustic Surface Waves
and Electron Surface Waves
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CONTENTS
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
XVIII.
XIX.
Processing and Transmission of Information
Estimation for Poisson Processes
143
Photocount Statistics: A Representation Theorem
150
Detection and Estimation Theory
Statistical Microstructure of Random Fields Generated
by Multiple-Scatter Media
XX.
Speech Communication
The Interpersonal Context of Infant Vocalization
XXI.
143
Linguistics
157
158
169
170
177
On the Notion 'Strong Derivational Constraint'
178
A Consolidation Effect in Sentence Perception
182
XXII.
Cognitive Information Processing
187
XXIII.
Communications Biophysics
195
"Paradoxical" Waves, Bone Conduction, and Cochlear
Models
214
Reduction of Muscle Noise in the Electrocardiogram
222
Antidromic and Orthodromic Stimulation of Neurons
Receiving Calyces of Held
227
XXIV.
Neurophysiology
235
XXV.
Signal Processing
239
XXVI.
Frequency- and Time-Domain Analysis of Window Arrays
241
Application of Window Functions to the Detection of a
Signal in the Presence of Echoes
241
Digital System Design Automation
Author Index
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