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TABLE OF CONTENTS
GENERAL PHYSICS
I.
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Molecule Microscopy
Factors Affecting Resolution of Scanning Desorption
Molecule Microscopy
II.
Physical Electronics and Surface Physics
Permeation of Hydrogen through Metals
III.
Atomic Resonance and Scattering
Microwave and Millimeter Wave Techniques
Low-Temperature Millimeter Wave Receivers
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K-band GaAs Schottky-Barrier Diode Mixer
33
118-GHz Mixer Development
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Radio Astronomy
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Transport Phenomena in Solids
The Anisotropy Ratio of Electrical Conductivity in Graphite
VIII.
25
Frequency-Power Formulas for Josephson Junctions
Environmental Sensing with Nimbus Satellite Passive
Microwave Spectrometers
VII.
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25
Short Laser Pulses: Passive Mode-Locking Solution
VI.
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25
Quantum Electronics
Nonlinear Phenomena
V.
9
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Two-Photon High-Resolution Spectroscopy
IV.
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Physical Acoustics
Attenuation of Sound in Turbulent Pipe Flow
43
Interaction of Sound with a Side-Branch Cavity
43
Acoustics of an Open-Ended Tube with Flow
44
PLASMA DYNAMICS
IX.
Plasma Dynamics
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Laser-Plasma Interactions
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Two- and Three-Dimensional Stability Analysis for
Second-Order Laser-Plasma Interactions
48
Three-Dimensional Dispersion Relations for ThirdOrder Laser-Plasma Interactions
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Intense Relativistic Beam-Plasma Interactions
75
Structure of Plasma Generated by Irradiation of a
Solid Target from a Pulsed CO 2 Laser
75
Magnetic Insulation of an Intense Relativistic Electron
Beam
82
Beam-Plasma Interaction in a Longitudinal Density
Gradient
86
Experimental Studies - Waves, Turbulence, and Radiation
Wave Conversion near Lower Hybrid Resonance
General Theory
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Parametric Excitation of Ion Waves by Resonance
Cone Fields near the Lower Hybrid Frequency
105
Three-Dimensional Pulse Evolution of Coupled WaveWave Interactions
112
Third-Order Nonlinear Wave-Wave Interactions:
A Differential- Equation Approach
117
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
X.
Processing and Transmission of Information
Optical Channels
Uniqueness of the Optimum Receiver for the M-ary
Pure State Problem
Complexity of Networks and Algorithms
Complexity of Acceptors for Prefix Codes
XI.
XII.
Digital Signal Processing
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Recursibility of Two-Dimensional Difference Equations
151
Linguistics
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Cognitive Information Processing
163
Text-to-Speech Conversion
163
Locally Organized Parser for Spoken Input
XIV.
129
Using a Two-Dimensional Discrete Hilbert Transform to
Factor Two-Dimensional Polynomials
The Semantics of Growth
XIII.
129
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Communications Biophysics
169
Animal Communication
169
The Shaking Dance of Honeybee Workers: Evidence
for Age Discrimination
QPR No. 113
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CONTENTS
Publications and Reports
173
Personnel
177
Author Index
185
Research Support Index
186