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TABLE OF CONTENTS Personnel vi Publications and Reports xiv xviii Introduction GENERAL PHYSICS I. Vapor Pressure of He II. 1 Molecular Beams 4 0 1 below 1. 5 K Electron Microscopy 2 Microwave Spectroscopy 3 Electromagnetic Waves on High Dielectric Constant Ribbon III. 7 Radio Astronomy Preliminary Results from the 1970 Airborne Meteorology Expedition IV. 7 Water-Vapor Emission from Variable Stars 13 Measurement of Thermal Emission from Mesospheric 02 17 Search for Interstellar Sulfur Monoxide 25 Observations of Pulsar Spectra 26 35 Solid-State Microwave Electronics Theoretical Small-Signal Analysis of an Avalanche Diode in the s-Plane V. 35 47 Physical Electronics and Surface Physics Experimental Measurements of the Speed Distribution of D 2 Desorbed from a Nickel Surface VI. Nonlinear Surface 61 Interaction between a Sound Field and a Liquid Techniques for Measuring 62 Density Fluctuations in 63 Jets 65 Electrodynamics of Media An Experimental Determination of Cross Relaxation in CO Investigation of Nonlinear Effects in High-Pressure CO QPR No. 99 47 61 Physical Acoustics Observation of Interaction between Acoustic Surface Waves and Electron Surface Waves VII. 3 iii 2 Z Lasers 65 70 CONTENTS PLASMA DYNAMICS VIII. 77 Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion 77 High-Temperature Toroidal Plasmas 77 Model for the Turbulent Ion Heating in Tokamak TM-3 IX. 83 Applied Plasma Research 83 Active Plasma Systems 83 Interaction of a Heavy Ion Beam with a Plasma 90 Plasma Effects in Solids Further Studies of a Model for Microwave Emission from the Bulk of n-Type Indium Antimonide 90 Electron Plasma Surface Wave in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields 96 Dispersion Characteristics of the Electron Plasma Surface Wave 101 COMMUNICATION X. SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING Relationships between Random Trees and Branching Processes 109 Finite Memory Decision Schemes 111 Detector Statistics for Optical Communication Turbulent Atmosphere XI. 109 Processing and Transmission of Information through the 114 Direct Detection Error Probabilities for Optical Communication over a Rayleigh Fading Channel 123 Weakly Coherent Quantum Channels I 130 Cognitive Information Processing 135 Estimation of the Impulse Response of Image-Degrading Systems 135 Generating Statistically Independent Gaussian Pseudo-Random Numbers 140 Text-to-Speech Conversion 146 Some Syllabic Junctural Effects in English 149 Tactile Pitch Feedback for Deaf Speakers 160 Proposed Automatic Leukocyte Differential Analyzer 174 QPR No. 99 CONTENTS XII. XIII. Communications Biophysics 177 A Gain-Bandwidth Theorem for the Middle Ear 177 Organization of the Posterior Ramus and Ganglion of the VIIIth Cranial Nerve of the Bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana 180 Auditory-Nerve Firing Patterns for Repetitive Pseudo Noise-Burst Stimuli 183 Digital System Design Automation Register-Transfer-Language to Boolean- Level-Description System Author Index QPR No. 99 193 193 195