TABLE OF CONTENTS
Personnel
vi
Publications and Reports
xv
Introduction
xx
GENERAL PHYSICS
I.
Molecular Beams
1
1
Possible Desorption Methods for Molecular Microscopy
II.
5
Radio Astronomy
Millimeter-Wave Interferometer
5
H20 Line Observation
5
Aperture Synthesis of Extragalactic Nebulae
6
Aircraft Flights with the Nimbus E Microwave Spectrometer
6
Radiometer System for Ground-Based Measurement
Stratospheric Temperatures
Remote Sensing of Atmospheric 03 and H2
0
of
7
to 70 km from
Aircraft Measurements of Radiation at 1.64 mm Wavelength
III.
IV.
15
Solid-State Microwave Electronics
Noise-Figure Measurements on BARITT Diode NegativeResistance Amplifiers at 4 GHz
15
BARITT Diodes
16
Mixer Development at 100 GHz for Atmospheric Ozone Research
16
Low-Noise Intermediate-Frequency Amplifiers for 55-GHz
Radiometers
17
Peak-Locking Approach for Stabilization of High-Resolution
Mass Spectrometer
19
Modulator Imbedding Networks for P-I-N Diodes
23
29
Physical Electronics and Surface Physics
Influence of Surface Effects on the Permeation of Hydrogen
through Metals
V.
Effects of Geometrical Asymmetries on the Behavior
an Orifice
Nonlinear Attenuation of Sound in Ducts
106
29
41
Physical Acoustics
QPR No.
8
of
41
44
CONTENTS
VI.
49
Electrodynamics of Media
Electron Distribution and Lasing Efficiency of Diatomic
Gas Laser
49
Measurement of the V-V Relaxation Rate in the Asymmetric
Stretch Mode of CO 2
60
Measurement of the Spectrum of a TEA CO
2
Laser
63
PLASMA DYNAMICS
VII.
73
Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion
73
Plasma Diagnostics
Forbidden Optical Transitions in a Dense Laser-Produced
Plasma
78
Feedback Stabilization
Ion-Ablation Drag Model for a Coaxial Plasma Gun
78
Feedback Stabilization of Kink Modes Including the
Influence of Negative-Energy Modes
81
110
High-Temperature Plasma Physics
VIII.
Resonant Scattering of Trapped Particles by Toroidal
Plasma Modes
110
Can Alcator Reach the Banana Regime?
116
121
Gaseous Electronics
Radiation Temperatures in Argon Ion Laser
COMMUNICATION
IX.
XI.
127
Correction of Low-Density Bursts
127
Document Storage Scheme Based on Polarized Distance
127
Data
Networks
with
Finite
Storage
127
Interaction Formulation of Quantum Communication Theory
128
Optical Scatter Propagation
133
Speech Communication
137
Second Experiment on Temporally Segmented Speech
137
Some Considerations in the Use of Linear Prediction for
Speech Analysis
141
Linguistics
Are Glottal Stop and h Sonorants ?
QPR No.
121
SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
Processing and Transmission of Information
Digital
X.
73
106
151
151
CONTENTS
XII.
161
Cognitive Information Processing
Recognition and Analysis of Biological Objects by Computer
XIII.
167
Communications Biophysics
Analog Signal Delay
168
Portable Clinical or Laboratory Computation System
172
Time-Domain Filters
184
Vectorcardiographic Characterization
Ventricular Contractions
XIV.
of
Premature
194
205
Signal Processing
Musical Timbre Recognition Based on a Model
Auditory System
of the
Perception of Simultaneously Presented Musical Timbres
Author Index
QPR No.
161
106
205
209
211