TABLE OF CONTENTS
Personnel
vi
Publications and Reports
xv
Introduction
xx
GENERAL PHYSICS
I.
Molecular Beams
Cesium Beam Atomic Clock
II.
Microwave Spectroscopy
Velocity Surfaces in Lithium Niobate
III.
IV.
VIII.
5
Radicals in the Gas Phase
13
Construction of a Rapid-Scanning EPR Spectrometer Coupled
with a Flash-Discharge Source
14
Radio Astronomy
Microwave Dielectric Constant and Emissivity of a Solution Approximating Sea Water
VII.
5
13
Results Obtained from the Inversion, of Simulated Atmospheric Water-Vapor Spectra
VI.
1
Electron Magnetic Resonance
Interpretation of Spectral Data
V.
1
15
15
16
19
Hydrogen Recombination Line Observations
22
Observations of OH Emission
23
Solid-State Microwave Electronics
27
High Dynamic Range Techniques
27
High-Power Varactor Multipliers
27
Device Characterization
28
Computer Design of Varactor Circuits
28
Electronic Instrumentation
33
Shielded Room Facility
33
Mass Spectrometer Detector
34
Resolution of Mass Spectrometer
36
Sampling and Retrieval of the Spectrum
37
Optical and Infrared Spectroscopy
39
Reflection Measurements on Potassium Halides in the Far
Infrared Region
39
Lattice Vibrations in CdS/Se Mixed Crystals
42
Geophysical Research
Optical Radar and Airglow Observations in Norway during the
Presence of Noctilucent Clouds
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CONTENTS
IX.
X.
Electrodynamics of Media
51
Electrodynamics of Quadrupolar Media
51
Pulse Distortion in Nonlinear Optics
56
Physical Optics of Invertebrate Eyes
Optics of the Tobacco Hornworm Moth
69
69
PLASMA DYNAMICS
XI.
Plasma Physics
71
Computer Programmed "Basic Data of Plasma Physics"
71
Far Infrared Plasma Diagnostics
73
Electron Density Measurements with a Narrow-Band Far
Infrared Interferometer
87
Microwave Scattering from Warm Plasma Waves near the
Electron-Cyclotron Frequency
98
Nonlinear Harmonic Generation at Plasma Resonance
103
Laser Breakdown Experiment
108
Microwave Emission from n-type Indium Antimonide at 4.2°K and 77*K 128
XII.
Gaseous Electronics
135
Electron Collisional Effects on Wave Propagation in a Nonmagnetized Plasma
XIII.
Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion
Active Plasma Systems
System C: Excitation of an Ion-Cyclotron Resonance
141
Beam-Plasma Discharge:
146
System D
Cross-Field Beam- Plasma Experiments
Experimental Investigation of a Beam-Plasma Interaction
in a Minimum-B Field
150
Anomalous Millimeter Microwave Plasma Density Measurements
157
Theory of Beam- Plasma Interactions
163
Dispersion Relations for Beam-Plasma Interactions
168
Sheet Models of the Beam-Plasma Discharge
178
Effect of Essential Singularities on Stability Criteria
183
Motion of Charged Particles in Magnetic Mirror Field in the
Presence of a Radial Time-Variant Electric Field
186
Experimental Study of Hollow-Cathode Discharge Arc Plasma
Plasma Magnetohydrodynamic Flows, Waves, and Instabilities
Magnetohydrodynamic Wave Propagation Transverse
to Magnatic Field
Energy Conversion Research
154
193
193
201
201
217
Status of Research
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Applied Plasma Physics Related to Controlled Nuclear Fusion
XIV.
135
217
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CONTENTS
XV.
XVI.
Spontaneous Radiofrequency Emission from Hot-Electron Plasmas
219
Enhanced Cyclotron Radiation from an Electron-Cyclotron
Resonance Discharge
219
Interaction of Laser Radiation with Plasmas and Nonadiabatic
Motion of Particles in Magnetic Fields
223
Incoherent Scattering of Light from a Plasma IV
223
Electron Diffusion in a Helically Perturbed Magnetic Field
of the M. I. T. Stellarator
225
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
231
Statistical Communication Theory
Discrete Analysis of Homomorphic Deconvolution
231
Unity Feedback Two-State Modular Configurations
234
Processing and Transmission of Information
239
Shift-Register Synthesis and Applications
239
Coding Theorems for Source-Channel Pairs
241
249
Detection and Estimation Theory
Nonlinear Map Interval Estimation
249
Performance Bounds for Optimum Detection for Gaussian Signals
253
267
Speech Communication
On the Mechanism of Glottal Vibration for Vowels and Consonants
267
Homomorphic Speech Processing
271
279
Linguistics
On Noncyclic Transformational Grammars
279
Lithuanian Morphophonemics
284
Inward and Upward
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Directionals in English
On Problems Implied by the Concept 'Performance'
XXII.
XXIII.
XXIV.
297
301
305
Cognitive Information Processing
Acquired Asymmetry of Shape Learning
305
Transmission and Coding of Color Pictures
307
Subjective Effects of Additive White Pictorial Noise with
Various Probability Distributions
317
Stochastic Model for Weather Maps
320
312
Neurophysiology
Contrast Detectors
312
Insight into Neuronal Closed Loops from Shift-Register Theory
325
329
Computation Research
Finding the Roots of an Analytic Function
Author Index
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