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142-477: Because of their long wavelengths, VLF radio waves can diffract around large obstacles and so are not blocked by mountain ranges, and can propagate as ground waves following the curvature of the Earth and so are not limited by the horizon. Ground waves are absorbed by the resistance of the Earth and are less important beyond several hundred to a thousand kilometres/miles, and the main mode of long-distance propagation

284-532: A sin ⁡ θ ) k a sin ⁡ θ ) 2 , {\displaystyle I(\theta )=I_{0}\left({\frac {2J_{1}(ka\sin \theta )}{ka\sin \theta }}\right)^{2},} where a {\displaystyle a} is the radius of the circular aperture, k {\displaystyle k} is equal to 2 π / λ {\displaystyle 2\pi /\lambda } and J 1 {\displaystyle J_{1}}

426-620: A celebrated experiment in 1803 demonstrating interference from two closely spaced slits. Explaining his results by interference of the waves emanating from the two different slits, he deduced that light must propagate as waves. Augustin-Jean Fresnel did more definitive studies and calculations of diffraction, made public in 1816 and 1818 , and thereby gave great support to the wave theory of light that had been advanced by Christiaan Huygens and reinvigorated by Young, against Newton's corpuscular theory of light . In classical physics diffraction arises because of how waves propagate; this

568-477: A fundamental limit to the resolution of a camera, telescope, or microscope. Other examples of diffraction are considered below. A long slit of infinitesimal width which is illuminated by light diffracts the light into a series of circular waves and the wavefront which emerges from the slit is a cylindrical wave of uniform intensity, in accordance with the Huygens–Fresnel principle . An illuminated slit that

710-468: A laser pointer is another diffraction phenomenon. It is a result of the superposition of many waves with different phases, which are produced when a laser beam illuminates a rough surface. They add together to give a resultant wave whose amplitude, and therefore intensity, varies randomly. Loading coil A loading coil or load coil is an inductor that is inserted into an electronic circuit to increase its inductance . The term originated in

852-402: A low-pass constant k filter are given by; where L 1 2 {\textstyle L_{\frac {1}{2}}} and C 1 2 {\displaystyle C_{\frac {1}{2}}} are the half section element values. From these basic equations the necessary loading coil inductance and coil spacing can be found; where C is the capacitance per unit length of

994-445: A sound wave travels through a medium with varying acoustic impedance – all waves diffract, including gravitational waves , water waves , and other electromagnetic waves such as X-rays and radio waves . Furthermore, quantum mechanics also demonstrates that matter possesses wave-like properties and, therefore, undergoes diffraction (which is measurable at subatomic to molecular levels). The amount of diffraction depends on

1136-425: A bright light source like the sun or the moon. At the opposite point one may also observe glory - bright rings around the shadow of the observer. In contrast to the corona, glory requires the particles to be transparent spheres (like fog droplets), since the backscattering of the light that forms the glory involves refraction and internal reflection within the droplet. A shadow of a solid object, using light from

1278-403: A cable across Lake Constance . There are a number of difficulties using loading coils with heavy submarine cables. The bulge of the loading coils could not easily pass through the cable laying apparatus of cable ships and the ship had to slow down during the laying of a loading coil. Discontinuities where the coils were installed caused stresses in the cable during laying. Without great care,

1420-423: A circuit remains low for signals within the passband of the transmission line but increases rapidly for frequencies above the audio cutoff frequency. If the telephone line is subsequently reused to support applications that require higher frequencies, such as in analog or digital carrier systems or digital subscriber line (DSL), loading coils must be removed or replaced. Using coils with parallel capacitors forms

1562-435: A compact source, shows small fringes near its edges. Diffraction spikes are diffraction patterns caused due to non-circular aperture in camera or support struts in telescope; In normal vision, diffraction through eyelashes may produce such spikes. The speckle pattern which is observed when laser light falls on an optically rough surface is also a diffraction phenomenon. When deli meat appears to be iridescent , that

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1704-781: A few hundred watts, an impedance matching transformer, a loading coil and a large wire antenna. Receivers employ an electric field probe or magnetic loop antenna, a sensitive audio preamplifier, isolating transformers, and a PC sound card to digitise the signal. Extensive digital signal processing is required to retrieve the weak signals from beneath interference from power line harmonics and VLF radio atmospherics . Useful received signal strengths are as low as 3 × 10  volts/meter (electric field) and 1 × 10  tesla (magnetic field), with signaling rates typically between 1 and 100 bits per hour. VLF signals are often monitored by radio amateurs using simple homemade VLF radio receivers based on personal computers (PCs). An aerial in

1846-460: A filter with the topology of an m-derived filter and a band of frequencies above the cut-off is also passed. Without removal, for subscribers at an extended distance, e.g., over 4 miles (6.4 km) from the central office, DSL cannot be supported. American early and middle 20th century telephone cables had load coils at intervals of a mile (1.61 km), usually in coil cases holding many. The coils had to be removed to pass higher frequencies, but

1988-473: A form of continuously loaded cable which solved the problems of discrete loading coils. Krarup cable has iron wires continuously wound around the central copper conductor with adjacent turns in contact with each other. This cable was the first use of continuous loading on any telecommunication cable. In 1902, Krarup both wrote his paper on this subject and saw the installation of the first cable between Helsingør (Denmark) and Helsingborg (Sweden). Even though

2130-435: A more expensive cable. Decreasing C would also mean a larger cable (although not necessarily more copper). Increasing G is highly undesirable; while it would reduce distortion, it would at the same time increase the signal loss. Heaviside considered, but rejected, this possibility which left him with the strategy of increasing L as the way to reduce distortion. Heaviside immediately (1887) proposed several methods of increasing

2272-401: A mountain in 1894, although there is nothing from him published at that time. Pupin's 1894 patent "loads" the line with capacitors rather than inductors, a scheme that has been criticised as being theoretically flawed and never put into practice. To add to the confusion, one variant of the capacitor scheme proposed by Pupin does indeed have coils. However, these are not intended to compensate

2414-400: A nonconductive frame, with RF resistance reduced by using thick litz wire several centimeters in diameter, consisting of thousands of insulated strands of fine wire braided together. The high capacitance and inductance and low resistance of the antenna-loading coil combination makes it act electrically like a high Q tuned circuit . VLF antennas have very narrow bandwidth and to change

2556-491: A point source (the Helmholtz equation ), ∇ 2 ψ + k 2 ψ = δ ( r ) , {\displaystyle \nabla ^{2}\psi +k^{2}\psi =\delta (\mathbf {r} ),} where δ ( r ) {\displaystyle \delta (\mathbf {r} )} is the 3-dimensional delta function. The delta function has only radial dependence, so

2698-471: A practical demonstration over a real telephone route with the budget he had been allocated. After considering that his artificial line simulators used lumped components rather than the distributed quantities found in a real line, he wondered if he could not insert the inductance with lumped components instead of using Stone's distributed line. When his calculations showed that the manholes on telephone routes were sufficiently close together to be able to insert

2840-438: A pure resistance , absorbing all the power applied to it from the transmitter. In many cases, for practical reasons, it is necessary to make the antenna shorter than the resonant length, this is called an electrically short antenna. An antenna shorter than a quarter wavelength presents capacitive reactance to the transmission line . Some of the applied power is reflected back into the transmission line and travels back toward

2982-408: A quarter-wave vertical antenna at 30 kHz (10 km wavelength) would be 2.5 kilometres (8,200 feet) high. So practical transmitting antennas are electrically short , a small fraction of the length at which they would be self-resonant. Due to their low radiation resistance (often less than one ohm) they are inefficient, radiating only 10% to 50% of the transmitter power at most, with the rest of

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3124-406: A second convex lens whose focal point is coincident with that of the first lens. The resulting beam has a larger diameter, and hence a lower divergence. Divergence of a laser beam may be reduced below the diffraction of a Gaussian beam or even reversed to convergence if the refractive index of the propagation media increases with the light intensity. This may result in a self-focusing effect. When

3266-416: A similar result. Mechanical loaded lines of this sort were first studied by Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813). The phenomenon of cutoff whereby frequencies above the cutoff frequency are not transmitted is an undesirable side effect of loading coils (although it proved highly useful in the development of filters ). Cutoff is avoided by the use of continuous loading since it arises from the lumped nature of

3408-401: A transmission line to be free from distortion . The Heaviside condition is that the series impedance , Z, must be proportional to the shunt admittance , Y, at all frequencies. In terms of the primary line coefficients the condition is: where: Heaviside was aware that this condition was not met in the practical telegraph cables in use in his day. In general, a real cable would have, This

3550-408: Is θ ≈ sin ⁡ θ = 1.22 λ D , {\displaystyle \theta \approx \sin \theta =1.22{\frac {\lambda }{D}},} where D {\displaystyle D} is the diameter of the entrance pupil of the imaging lens (e.g., of a telescope's main mirror). Two point sources will each produce an Airy pattern – see

3692-417: Is a Bessel function . The smaller the aperture, the larger the spot size at a given distance, and the greater the divergence of the diffracted beams. The wave that emerges from a point source has amplitude ψ {\displaystyle \psi } at location r {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} } that is given by the solution of the frequency domain wave equation for

3834-416: Is a ferromagnetic core inductor with a second control winding through which a DC current flows, which controls the inductance by magnetizing the core, changing its permeability . The keying datastream is applied to the control winding. So when the frequency of the transmitter is shifted between the '1' and '0' frequencies, the saturable reactor changes the inductance in the antenna resonant circuit to shift

3976-513: Is already the case; water waves propagate only on the surface of the water. For light, we can often neglect one direction if the diffracting object extends in that direction over a distance far greater than the wavelength. In the case of light shining through small circular holes, we will have to take into account the full three-dimensional nature of the problem. The effects of diffraction are often seen in everyday life. The most striking examples of diffraction are those that involve light; for example,

4118-416: Is an Earth-ionosphere waveguide mechanism. The Earth is surrounded by a conductive layer of electrons and ions in the upper atmosphere at the bottom of the ionosphere called the D layer at 60–90 km (37–56 miles) altitude, which reflects VLF radio waves. The conductive ionosphere and the conductive Earth form a horizontal "duct" a few VLF wavelengths high, which acts as a waveguide confining

4260-667: Is an integer other than zero. There is no such simple argument to enable us to find the maxima of the diffraction pattern. The intensity profile can be calculated using the Fraunhofer diffraction equation as I ( θ ) = I 0 sinc 2 ⁡ ( d π λ sin ⁡ θ ) , {\displaystyle I(\theta )=I_{0}\,\operatorname {sinc} ^{2}\left({\frac {d\pi }{\lambda }}\sin \theta \right),} where I ( θ ) {\displaystyle I(\theta )}

4402-425: Is built to have an inductive reactance equal and opposite to the capacitive reactance of the short antenna, so the combination of reactances cancels. When so loaded the antenna presents a pure resistance to the transmission line, preventing energy from being reflected. The loading coil is often placed at the base of the antenna, between it and the transmission line ( base loading ), but for more efficient radiation, it

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4544-404: Is described by the Huygens–Fresnel principle and the principle of superposition of waves . The propagation of a wave can be visualized by considering every particle of the transmitted medium on a wavefront as a point source for a secondary spherical wave . The wave displacement at any subsequent point is the sum of these secondary waves. When waves are added together, their sum is determined by

4686-427: Is diffraction off the meat fibers. All these effects are a consequence of the fact that light propagates as a wave . Diffraction can occur with any kind of wave. Ocean waves diffract around jetties and other obstacles. Sound waves can diffract around objects, which is why one can still hear someone calling even when hiding behind a tree. Diffraction can also be a concern in some technical applications; it sets

4828-430: Is due to the addition, or interference , of different points on the wavefront (or, equivalently, each wavelet) that travel by paths of different lengths to the registering surface. If there are multiple, closely spaced openings (e.g., a diffraction grating ), a complex pattern of varying intensity can result. These effects also occur when a light wave travels through a medium with a varying refractive index , or when

4970-577: Is expensive and hence is only done when absolutely necessary. Lumped loading with coils is cheaper but has the disadvantages of difficult seals and a definite cutoff frequency. A compromise scheme is patch loading whereby the cable is continuously loaded in repeated sections. The intervening sections are left unloaded. Loaded cable is no longer a useful technology for submarine communication cables, having first been superseded by co-axial cable using electrically powered in-line repeaters and then by fibre-optic cable . Manufacture of loaded cable declined in

5112-544: Is half the width of the slit. The path difference is approximately d sin ⁡ ( θ ) 2 {\displaystyle {\frac {d\sin(\theta )}{2}}} so that the minimum intensity occurs at an angle θ min {\displaystyle \theta _{\text{min}}} given by d sin ⁡ θ min = λ , {\displaystyle d\,\sin \theta _{\text{min}}=\lambda ,} where d {\displaystyle d}

5254-449: Is high in the band, including such phenomena as " whistlers ", caused by lightning . A major practical drawback to the VLF band is that because of the length of the waves, full size resonant antennas ( half wave dipole or quarter wave monopole antennas) cannot be built because of their physical height. Vertical antennas must be used because VLF waves propagate in vertical polarization, but

5396-784: Is incident on the aperture, the field produced by this aperture distribution is given by the surface integral Ψ ( r ) ∝ ∬ a p e r t u r e E i n c ( x ′ , y ′ )   e i k | r − r ′ | 4 π | r − r ′ | d x ′ d y ′ , {\displaystyle \Psi (r)\propto \iint \limits _{\mathrm {aperture} }\!\!E_{\mathrm {inc} }(x',y')~{\frac {e^{ik|\mathbf {r} -\mathbf {r} '|}}{4\pi |\mathbf {r} -\mathbf {r} '|}}\,dx'\,dy',} where

5538-410: Is limited by the voltage the antenna can accept without air breakdown , corona , and arcing from the antenna. The bandwidth of large capacitively loaded VLF antennas is so narrow (50–100 Hz) that even the small frequency shifts of FSK and MSK modulation may exceed it, throwing the antenna out of resonance , causing the antenna to reflect some power back down the feedline. The traditional solution

5680-532: Is mainly due to the low value of leakage through the cable insulator, which is even more pronounced in modern cables which have better insulators than in Heaviside's day. In order to meet the condition, the choices are therefore to try to increase G or L or to decrease R or C. Decreasing R requires larger conductors. Copper was already in use in telegraph cables and this is the very best conductor available short of using silver. Decreasing R means using more copper and

5822-444: Is possible to obtain a qualitative understanding of many diffraction phenomena by considering how the relative phases of the individual secondary wave sources vary, and, in particular, the conditions in which the phase difference equals half a cycle in which case waves will cancel one another out. The simplest descriptions of diffraction are those in which the situation can be reduced to a two-dimensional problem. For water waves , this

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5964-411: Is recommended to record the spectrograms with any PC CRT monitors turned off. These spectrograms show many signals, which may include VLF transmitters and the horizontal electron beam deflection of TV sets. The strength of the signal received can vary with a sudden ionospheric disturbance . These cause the ionization level to increase in the ionosphere producing a rapid change to the amplitude and phase of

6106-671: Is relatively easy to receive the transmissions and convert them into a string of characters, enemies cannot decode the encrypted messages; military communications usually use unbreakable one-time pad ciphers since the amount of text is so small. The frequency range below 8.3 kHz is not allocated by the International Telecommunication Union and in some nations may be used license-free. Radio amateurs in some countries have been granted permission (or have assumed permission) to operate at frequencies below 8.3 kHz. Operations tend to congregate around

6248-447: Is sometimes inserted near the midpoint of the antenna element ( center loading ). Loading coils for powerful transmitters can have challenging design requirements, especially at low frequencies. The radiation resistance of short antennas can be very low, as low a few ohms in the LF or VLF bands, where antennas are commonly short and inductive loading is most needed. Because resistance in

6390-427: Is stated as; where, A more engineer friendly rule of thumb is that the approximate requirement for spacing loading coils is ten coils per wavelength of the maximum frequency being transmitted. This approximation can be arrived at by treating the loaded line as a constant k filter and applying image filter theory to it. From basic image filter theory the angular cutoff frequency and the characteristic impedance of

6532-664: Is tapered towards the ends. Mu-metal was invented in 1923 by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company , London, who made the cable, initially, for the Western Union Telegraph Co . Western Union were in competition with AT&T and the Western Electric Company who were using permalloy. The patent for permalloy was held by Western Electric which prevented Western Union from using it. Continuous loading of cables

6674-415: Is the unnormalized sinc function . This analysis applies only to the far field ( Fraunhofer diffraction ), that is, at a distance much larger than the width of the slit. From the intensity profile above, if d ≪ λ {\displaystyle d\ll \lambda } , the intensity will have little dependency on θ {\displaystyle \theta } , hence

6816-428: Is the angle at which the light is incident, d {\displaystyle d} is the separation of grating elements, and m {\displaystyle m} is an integer which can be positive or negative. The light diffracted by a grating is found by summing the light diffracted from each of the elements, and is essentially a convolution of diffraction and interference patterns. The figure shows

6958-746: Is the intensity at a given angle, I 0 {\displaystyle I_{0}} is the intensity at the central maximum ( θ = 0 {\displaystyle \theta =0} ), which is also a normalization factor of the intensity profile that can be determined by an integration from θ = − π 2 {\textstyle \theta =-{\frac {\pi }{2}}} to θ = π 2 {\textstyle \theta ={\frac {\pi }{2}}} and conservation of energy, and sinc ⁡ x = sin ⁡ x x {\displaystyle \operatorname {sinc} x={\frac {\sin x}{x}}} , which

7100-447: Is the interference or bending of waves around the corners of an obstacle or through an aperture into the region of geometrical shadow of the obstacle/aperture. The diffracting object or aperture effectively becomes a secondary source of the propagating wave. Italian scientist Francesco Maria Grimaldi coined the word diffraction and was the first to record accurate observations of the phenomenon in 1660 . In classical physics ,

7242-431: Is the wavelength of the light and N {\displaystyle N} is the f-number (focal length f {\displaystyle f} divided by aperture diameter D {\displaystyle D} ) of the imaging optics; this is strictly accurate for N ≫ 1 {\displaystyle N\gg 1} ( paraxial case). In object space, the corresponding angular resolution

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7384-705: Is the width of the slit, θ min {\displaystyle \theta _{\text{min}}} is the angle of incidence at which the minimum intensity occurs, and λ {\displaystyle \lambda } is the wavelength of the light. A similar argument can be used to show that if we imagine the slit to be divided into four, six, eight parts, etc., minima are obtained at angles θ n {\displaystyle \theta _{n}} given by d sin ⁡ θ n = n λ , {\displaystyle d\,\sin \theta _{n}=n\lambda ,} where n {\displaystyle n}

7526-443: Is to improve the voice-frequency amplitude response characteristics of the twisted balanced pairs in a telephone cable. Because twisted pair is a balanced format, half the loading coil must be inserted in each leg of the pair to maintain the balance. It is common for both these windings to be formed on the same core. This increases the flux linkages, without which the number of turns on the coil would need to be increased. Despite

7668-425: Is to use a "bandwidth resistor" in the antenna which reduces the Q , increasing the bandwidth; however this also reduces the power output. A recent alternative used in some military VLF transmitters is a circuit which dynamically shifts the antenna's resonant frequency between the two output frequencies with the modulation. This is accomplished with a saturable reactor in series with the antenna loading coil . This

7810-414: Is typically over 200; this means the antenna stores far more energy (200 times as much) than is supplied or radiated in any single cycle of the transmitter current. The energy is stored alternately as electrostatic energy in the topload and ground system, and magnetic energy in the vertical wires and loading coil. VLF antennas typically operate "voltage-limited", with the voltage on the antenna close to

7952-406: Is used due to the small bandwidth of the antenna. In high power VLF transmitters, to increase the allowable data rate, a special form of FSK called minimum-shift keying (MSK) is used. This is required due to the high Q of the antenna. The huge capacitively-loaded antenna and loading coil form a high Q tuned circuit , which stores oscillating electrical energy. The Q of large VLF antennas

8094-446: Is very small, ranging from 1 μW to 100 μW for fixed base station antennas, and up to 10 mW from kite or balloon antennas. Despite the low power, stable propagation with low attenuation in the earth-ionosphere cavity enable very narrow bandwidths to be used to reach distances up to several thousand kilometers. The modes used are QRSS , MFSK , and coherent BPSK . The transmitter generally consists of an audio amplifier of

8236-404: Is wider than a wavelength produces interference effects in the space downstream of the slit. Assuming that the slit behaves as though it has a large number of point sources spaced evenly across the width of the slit interference effects can be calculated. The analysis of this system is simplified if we consider light of a single wavelength. If the incident light is coherent , these sources all have

8378-515: The Laplace operator (a.k.a. scalar Laplacian) in the spherical coordinate system simplifies to ∇ 2 ψ = 1 r ∂ 2 ∂ r 2 ( r ψ ) . {\displaystyle \nabla ^{2}\psi ={\frac {1}{r}}{\frac {\partial ^{2}}{\partial r^{2}}}(r\psi ).} (See del in cylindrical and spherical coordinates .) By direct substitution,

8520-517: The Latin diffringere , 'to break into pieces', referring to light breaking up into different directions. The results of Grimaldi's observations were published posthumously in 1665 . Isaac Newton studied these effects and attributed them to inflexion of light rays. James Gregory ( 1638 – 1675 ) observed the diffraction patterns caused by a bird feather, which was effectively the first diffraction grating to be discovered. Thomas Young performed

8662-720: The US Navy has stopped using ELF transmissions, with the statement that improvements in VLF communication has made them unnecessary, so it may have developed technology to allow submarines to receive VLF transmissions while at operating depth. High power land-based and aircraft transmitters in countries that operate submarines send signals that can be received thousands of miles away. Transmitter sites typically cover great areas (many acres or square kilometers), with transmitted power anywhere from 20 kW to 2,000 kW. Submarines receive signals from land based and aircraft transmitters using some form of towed antenna that floats just under

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8804-429: The probability distribution for the photon: the light and dark bands are the areas where the photons are more or less likely to be detected. The wavefunction is determined by the physical surroundings such as slit geometry, screen distance, and initial conditions when the photon is created. The wave nature of individual photons (as opposed to wave properties only arising from the interactions between multitudes of photons)

8946-596: The shortwave frequencies. The Grimeton VLF transmitter at Grimeton near Varberg in Sweden , one of the few remaining transmitters from that era that has been preserved as a historical monument, can be visited by the public at certain times, such as on Alexanderson Day . Due to its long propagation distances and stable phase characteristics, during the 20th century the VLF band was used for long range hyperbolic radio navigation systems which allowed ships and aircraft to determine their geographical position by comparing

9088-411: The 19th century for inductors used to prevent signal distortion in long-distance telegraph transmission cables. The term is also used for inductors in radio antennas , or between the antenna and its feedline , to make an electrically short antenna resonant at its operating frequency. The concept of loading coils was discovered by Oliver Heaviside in studying the problem of slow signalling speed of

9230-495: The Earth. VLF signals can be measured as a geophysical electromagnetic survey that relies on transmitted currents inducing secondary responses in conductive geologic units. A VLF anomaly represents a change in the attitude of the electromagnetic vector overlying conductive materials in the subsurface. VLF can also penetrate soil and rock for some distance, so these frequencies are also used for through-the-earth mine communications systems. Powerful VLF transmitters are used by

9372-782: The Fraunhofer region field of the planar aperture assumes the form of a Fourier transform Ψ ( r ) ∝ e i k r 4 π r ∬ a p e r t u r e E i n c ( x ′ , y ′ ) e − i ( k x x ′ + k y y ′ ) d x ′ d y ′ , {\displaystyle \Psi (r)\propto {\frac {e^{ikr}}{4\pi r}}\iint \limits _{\mathrm {aperture} }\!\!E_{\mathrm {inc} }(x',y')e^{-i(k_{x}x'+k_{y}y')}\,dx'\,dy',} In

9514-541: The Krarup cable added inductance to the line, this was insufficient to meet the Heaviside condition. AT&T searched for a better material with higher magnetic permeability . In 1914, Gustav Elmen discovered permalloy , a magnetic nickel-iron annealed alloy. In c. 1915, Oliver E. Buckley , H. D. Arnold , and Elmen, all at Bell Labs , greatly improved transmission speeds by suggesting a method of constructing submarine communications cable using permalloy tape wrapped around

9656-475: The USA, also played a part in the story of loading coils. Pupin filed a rival patent to the one of Campbell's. This patent of Pupin's dates from 1899. There is an earlier patent (1894, filed December 1893) which is sometimes cited as Pupin's loading coil patent but is, in fact, something different. The confusion is easy to understand, Pupin himself claims that he first thought of the idea of loading coils while climbing

9798-581: The VLF band. More significantly, it would be difficult to transmit any distance because it would require an antenna with 100 times the bandwidth of current VLF antennas, which due to the Chu-Harrington limit would be enormous in size. Therefore, only text data can be transmitted, at low bit rates . In military networks frequency-shift keying (FSK) modulation is used to transmit radioteletype data using 5 bit ITA2 or 8 bit ASCII character codes. A small frequency shift of 30–50 hertz

9940-404: The addition of copper to the alloy increases the ductility and allows the metal to be drawn into wire. Mu-metal cable is easier to construct than permalloy cable, the mu-metal being wound around the core copper conductor in much the same way as the iron wire in Krarup cable. A further advantage with mu-metal cable is that the construction lends itself to a variable loading profile whereby the loading

10082-1472: The adjacent figure. The expression for the far-zone (Fraunhofer region) field becomes Ψ ( r ) ∝ e i k r 4 π r ∬ a p e r t u r e E i n c ( x ′ , y ′ ) e − i k ( r ′ ⋅ r ^ ) d x ′ d y ′ . {\displaystyle \Psi (r)\propto {\frac {e^{ikr}}{4\pi r}}\iint \limits _{\mathrm {aperture} }\!\!E_{\mathrm {inc} }(x',y')e^{-ik(\mathbf {r} '\cdot \mathbf {\hat {r}} )}\,dx'\,dy'.} Now, since r ′ = x ′ x ^ + y ′ y ^ {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} '=x'\mathbf {\hat {x}} +y'\mathbf {\hat {y}} } and r ^ = sin ⁡ θ cos ⁡ ϕ x ^ + sin ⁡ θ   sin ⁡ ϕ   y ^ + cos ⁡ θ z ^ , {\displaystyle \mathbf {\hat {r}} =\sin \theta \cos \phi \mathbf {\hat {x}} +\sin \theta ~\sin \phi ~\mathbf {\hat {y}} +\cos \theta \mathbf {\hat {z}} ,}

10224-425: The antenna resonant frequency to follow the transmitter's frequency. The requirements for receiving antennas are less stringent, because of the high level of natural atmospheric noise in the band. At VLF frequencies atmospheric radio noise is far above the receiver noise introduced by the receiver circuit and determines the receiver signal-to-noise ratio . So small inefficient receiving antennas can be used, and

10366-419: The attenuation gently increasing with frequency. With loading coils of exactly the right inductance, neither capacitance nor inductance dominate: the response is flat, waveforms are undistorted and the characteristic impedance is resistive up to the cutoff frequency. The coincidental formation of an audio frequency filter is also beneficial in that noise is reduced. With loading coils, signal attenuation of

10508-466: The band starting from 20 kHz, but the result was unsatisfactory because the available bandwidth was insufficient to contain the sidebands . In the 1920s the discovery of the skywave (skip) radio propagation method allowed lower power transmitters operating at high frequency to communicate at similar distances by reflecting their radio waves off a layer of ionized atoms in the ionosphere , and long-distance radio communication stations switched to

10650-510: The battle would end with the invention being declared unpatentable due to Heaviside's prior publication, they decided to desist from the challenge and buy an option on Pupin's patent for a yearly fee so that AT&T would control both patents. By January 1901 Pupin had been paid $ 200,000 ($ 13 million in 2011 ) and by 1917, when the AT&;T monopoly ended and payments ceased, he had received a total of $ 455,000 ($ 25 million in 2011 ). The invention

10792-442: The beam profile of a laser beam changes as it propagates is determined by diffraction. When the entire emitted beam has a planar, spatially coherent wave front, it approximates Gaussian beam profile and has the lowest divergence for a given diameter. The smaller the output beam, the quicker it diverges. It is possible to reduce the divergence of a laser beam by first expanding it with one convex lens , and then collimating it with

10934-416: The cable might part and would be difficult to repair. A further problem was that the material science of the time had difficulties sealing the joint between coil and cable against ingress of seawater. When this occurred the cable was ruined. Continuous loading was developed to overcome these problems, which also has the benefit of not having a cutoff frequency. A Danish engineer, Carl Emil Krarup , invented

11076-417: The characteristics of the insulating material. Different wavelengths of the signal travel at different velocities in the material causing dispersion . It was this problem on the first transatlantic telegraph cable that motivated Heaviside to study the problem and find the solution. Loading coils solve the dispersion problem, and the first use of them on a submarine cable was in 1906 by Siemens and Halske in

11218-406: The circuit with a flexible AC transmission system (FACTS), a static VAR compensator , or a static synchronous series compensator . Series compensation can be thought of as an inductor connected to the circuit in series if it is supplying inductance to the circuit. The Campbell equation is a relationship due to George Ashley Campbell for predicting the propagation constant of a loaded line. It

11360-422: The closely spaced tracks on a CD or DVD act as a diffraction grating to form the familiar rainbow pattern seen when looking at a disc. This principle can be extended to engineer a grating with a structure such that it will produce any diffraction pattern desired; the hologram on a credit card is an example. Diffraction in the atmosphere by small particles can cause a corona - a bright disc and rings around

11502-489: The coil cases provided convenient places for repeaters of digital T-carrier systems, which could then transmit a 1.5 Mbit/s signal that distance. Due to narrower streets and higher cost of copper, European cables had thinner wires and used closer spacing. Intervals of a kilometer allowed European systems to carry 2 Mbit/s. Another type of loading coil is used in radio antennas . Monopole and dipole radio antennas are designed to act as resonators for radio waves;

11644-461: The coil is often suspended in air supported on thin ceramic strips. The capacitively loaded antennas used at low frequencies have extremely narrow bandwidths, and therefore if the frequency is changed the loading coil must be adjustable to tune the antenna to resonance with the new transmitter frequency. Variometers are often used. To reduce losses due to high capacitance on long-distance bulk power transmission lines , inductance can be introduced to

11786-452: The coil winding is comparable to, or exceeds the radiation resistance, loading coils for extremely electrically short antennas must have extremely low AC resistance at the operating frequency. To reduce skin effect losses, the coil is often made of tubing or Litz wire , with single layer windings, with turns spaced apart to reduce proximity effect resistance. They must often handle high voltages. To reduce power lost in dielectric losses ,

11928-416: The collective interference of all these light sources that have different optical paths. In the quantum formalism, that is similar to considering the limited regions around the slits and boundaries from which photons are more likely to originate, and calculating the probability distribution (that is proportional to the resulting intensity of classical formalism). There are various analytical models which allow

12070-576: The copper conductors. The cable was tested in a trial in Bermuda in 1923. The first permalloy cable placed in service connected New York City and Horta (Azores) in September 1924. Permalloy cable enabled signalling speed on submarine telegraph cables to be increased to 400 words/min at a time when 40 words/min was considered good. The first transatlantic cable achieved only two words/min. Mu-metal has similar magnetic properties to permalloy but

12212-759: The definition of the incident angle θ i {\displaystyle \theta _{\text{i}}} . A diffraction grating is an optical component with a regular pattern. The form of the light diffracted by a grating depends on the structure of the elements and the number of elements present, but all gratings have intensity maxima at angles θ m which are given by the grating equation d ( sin ⁡ θ m ± sin ⁡ θ i ) = m λ , {\displaystyle d\left(\sin {\theta _{m}}\pm \sin {\theta _{i}}\right)=m\lambda ,} where θ i {\displaystyle \theta _{i}}

12354-958: The delta function source is located at the origin. If the source is located at an arbitrary source point, denoted by the vector r ′ {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} '} and the field point is located at the point r {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} } , then we may represent the scalar Green's function (for arbitrary source location) as ψ ( r | r ′ ) = e i k | r − r ′ | 4 π | r − r ′ | . {\displaystyle \psi (\mathbf {r} |\mathbf {r} ')={\frac {e^{ik|\mathbf {r} -\mathbf {r} '|}}{4\pi |\mathbf {r} -\mathbf {r} '|}}.} Therefore, if an electric field E i n c ( x , y ) {\displaystyle E_{\mathrm {inc} }(x,y)}

12496-713: The diffracted field to be calculated, including the Kirchhoff diffraction equation (derived from the wave equation ), the Fraunhofer diffraction approximation of the Kirchhoff equation (applicable to the far field ), the Fresnel diffraction approximation (applicable to the near field ) and the Feynman path integral formulation . Most configurations cannot be solved analytically, but can yield numerical solutions through finite element and boundary element methods. It

12638-400: The diffraction phenomenon is described by the Huygens–Fresnel principle that treats each point in a propagating wavefront as a collection of individual spherical wavelets . The characteristic bending pattern is most pronounced when a wave from a coherent source (such as a laser) encounters a slit/aperture that is comparable in size to its wavelength , as shown in the inserted image. This

12780-488: The establishment may also have played a part in their ignoring of him. John S. Stone worked for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) and was the first to attempt to apply Heaviside's ideas to real telecommunications. Stone's idea (1896) was to use a bimetallic iron-copper cable which he had patented. This cable of Stone's would increase the line inductance due to the iron content and had

12922-1138: The expression for the Fraunhofer region field from a planar aperture now becomes Ψ ( r ) ∝ e i k r 4 π r ∬ a p e r t u r e E i n c ( x ′ , y ′ ) e − i k sin ⁡ θ ( cos ⁡ ϕ x ′ + sin ⁡ ϕ y ′ ) d x ′ d y ′ . {\displaystyle \Psi (r)\propto {\frac {e^{ikr}}{4\pi r}}\iint \limits _{\mathrm {aperture} }\!\!E_{\mathrm {inc} }(x',y')e^{-ik\sin \theta (\cos \phi x'+\sin \phi y')}\,dx'\,dy'.} Letting k x = k sin ⁡ θ cos ⁡ ϕ {\displaystyle k_{x}=k\sin \theta \cos \phi } and k y = k sin ⁡ θ sin ⁡ ϕ , {\displaystyle k_{y}=k\sin \theta \sin \phi \,,}

13064-467: The far-field / Fraunhofer region, this becomes the spatial Fourier transform of the aperture distribution. Huygens' principle when applied to an aperture simply says that the far-field diffraction pattern is the spatial Fourier transform of the aperture shape, and this is a direct by-product of using the parallel-rays approximation, which is identical to doing a plane wave decomposition of the aperture plane fields (see Fourier optics ). The way in which

13206-522: The first transatlantic telegraph cable in the 1860s. He concluded additional inductance was required to prevent amplitude and time delay distortion of the transmitted signal. The mathematical condition for distortion-free transmission is known as the Heaviside condition . Previous telegraph lines were overland or shorter and hence had less delay, and the need for extra inductance was not as great. Submarine communications cables are particularly subject to

13348-469: The first minimum of one coincides with the maximum of the other. Thus, the larger the aperture of the lens compared to the wavelength, the finer the resolution of an imaging system. This is one reason astronomical telescopes require large objectives, and why microscope objectives require a large numerical aperture (large aperture diameter compared to working distance) in order to obtain the highest possible resolution. The speckle pattern seen when using

13490-567: The first quarter of the 20th century. Heaviside, who began it all, came away with nothing. He was offered a token payment but would not accept, wanting the credit for his work. He remarked ironically that if his prior publication had been admitted it would "interfere ... with the flow of dollars in the proper direction ...". Distortion is a particular problem for submarine communication cables , partly because their great length allows more distortion to build up, but also because they are more susceptible to distortion than open wires on poles due to

13632-506: The form of a coil of insulated wire is connected to the input of the soundcard of the PC (via a jack plug) and placed a few meters away from it. Fast Fourier transform (FFT) software in combination with a sound card allows reception of all frequencies below the Nyquist frequency simultaneously in the form of spectrogrammes . Because CRT monitors are strong sources of noise in the VLF range, it

13774-405: The frequencies 8.27 kHz, 6.47 kHz, 5.17 kHz, and 2.97 kHz. Transmissions typically last from one hour up to several days and both receiver and transmitter must have their frequency locked to a stable reference such as a GPS disciplined oscillator or a rubidium standard in order to support such long duration coherent detection and decoding. Radiated power from amateur stations

13916-443: The ground under the antenna. A large loading coil is required at the antenna feed point to cancel the capacitive reactance of the antenna to make it resonant . At VLF the design of this coil is challenging; it must have low resistance at the operating RF frequency, high Q , must handle very high currents, and must withstand the extremely high voltage on the antenna. These are usually huge air core coils 2-4 meters high wound on

14058-533: The horizontal. The ability of an imaging system to resolve detail is ultimately limited by diffraction . This is because a plane wave incident on a circular lens or mirror is diffracted as described above. The light is not focused to a point but forms an Airy disk having a central spot in the focal plane whose radius (as measured to the first null) is Δ x = 1.22 λ N , {\displaystyle \Delta x=1.22\lambda N,} where λ {\displaystyle \lambda }

14200-715: The incident angle θ i {\displaystyle \theta _{\text{i}}} of the light onto the slit is non-zero (which causes a change in the path length ), the intensity profile in the Fraunhofer regime (i.e. far field) becomes: I ( θ ) = I 0 sinc 2 ⁡ [ d π λ ( sin ⁡ θ ± sin ⁡ θ i ) ] {\displaystyle I(\theta )=I_{0}\,\operatorname {sinc} ^{2}\left[{\frac {d\pi }{\lambda }}(\sin \theta \pm \sin \theta _{\text{i}})\right]} The choice of plus/minus sign depends on

14342-557: The inductance, including spacing the conductors further apart and loading the insulator with iron dust. Finally, Heaviside made the proposal (1893) to use discrete inductors at intervals along the line. However, he never succeeded in persuading the British GPO to take up the idea. Brittain attributes this to Heaviside's failure to provide engineering details on the size and spacing of the coils for particular cable parameters. Heaviside's eccentric character and setting himself apart from

14484-414: The investigation into Stone's bimetallic cable, but soon abandoned it in favour of the loading coil. His was an independent discovery: Campbell was aware of Heaviside's work in discovering the Heaviside condition, but unaware of Heaviside's suggestion of using loading coils to enable a line to meet it. The motivation for the change of direction was Campbell's limited budget. Campbell was struggling to set up

14626-447: The ionosphere, the F1 and F2 layers, by a refraction process, and spend most of their journey in the ionosphere, so they are much more affected by ionization gradients and turbulence. Therefore, VLF transmissions are very stable and reliable, and are used for long-distance communication. Propagation distances of 5,000–20,000 km have been realized. However, atmospheric noise (" sferics ")

14768-502: The legal disputes surrounding this invention, it is unquestionable that Campbell was the first to actually construct a telephone circuit using loading coils. There also can be little doubt that Heaviside was the first to publish and many would dispute Pupin's priority. AT&T fought a legal battle with Pupin over his claim. Pupin was first to patent but Campbell had already conducted practical demonstrations before Pupin had even filed his patent (December 1899). Campbell's delay in filing

14910-542: The light diffracted by 2-element and 5-element gratings where the grating spacings are the same; it can be seen that the maxima are in the same position, but the detailed structures of the intensities are different. The far-field diffraction of a plane wave incident on a circular aperture is often referred to as the Airy disk . The variation in intensity with angle is given by I ( θ ) = I 0 ( 2 J 1 ( k

15052-415: The limit that the insulation will stand, so they will not tolerate any abrupt change in the voltage or current from the transmitter without arcing or other insulation problems. As described below, MSK is able to modulate the transmitted wave at higher data rates without causing voltage spikes on the antenna. The three types of modulation that have been used in VLF transmitters are: Historically, this band

15194-503: The line in any way. They are there merely to restore DC continuity to the line so that it may be tested with standard equipment. Pupin states that the inductance is to be so large that it blocks all AC signals above 50 Hz. Consequently, only the capacitor is adding any significant impedance to the line and "the coils will not exercise any material influence on the results before noted". Heaviside never patented his idea; indeed, he took no commercial advantage of any of his work. Despite

15336-427: The line. Expressing this in terms of number of coils per cutoff wavelength yields; where v is the velocity of propagation of the cable in question. Since v = 1 Z 0 C {\textstyle v={1 \over Z_{0}C}} then Campbell arrived at this expression by analogy with a mechanical line periodically loaded with weights described by Charles Godfrey in 1898 who obtained

15478-599: The loading coils without the expense of either having to dig up the route or lay in new cables he changed to this new plan. The very first demonstration of loading coils on a telephone cable was on a 46-mile length of the so-called Pittsburgh cable (the test was actually in Boston, the cable had previously been used for testing in Pittsburgh) on 6 September 1899 carried out by Campbell himself and his assistant. The first telephone cable using loaded lines put into public service

15620-436: The loading coils. The origin of the loading coil can be found in the work of Oliver Heaviside on the theory of transmission lines . Heaviside (1881) represented the line as a network of infinitesimally small circuit elements. By applying his operational calculus to the analysis of this network he discovered (1887) what has become known as the Heaviside condition . This is the condition that must be fulfilled in order for

15762-552: The low radiation resistance, to minimize power dissipated in the ground these antennas require extremely low resistance ground (Earthing) systems, consisting of radial networks of buried copper wires under the antenna. To minimize dielectric losses in the soil, the ground conductors are buried shallowly, only a few inches in the ground, and the ground surface near the antenna is sometimes protected by copper ground screens. Counterpoise systems have also been used, consisting of radial networks of copper cables supported several feet above

15904-442: The low voltage signal from the antenna can simply be amplified by the receiver without introducing significant noise. Ferrite loop antennas are usually used for reception. Because of the small bandwidth of the band, and the extremely narrow bandwidth of the antennas used, it is impractical to transmit audio signals ( AM or FM radiotelephony ). A typical AM radio signal with a bandwidth of 10 kHz would occupy one third of

16046-485: The military to communicate with their forces worldwide. The advantage of VLF frequencies is their long range, high reliability, and the prediction that in a nuclear war VLF communications will be less disrupted by nuclear explosions than higher frequencies. Since it can penetrate seawater VLF is used by the military to communicate with submarines near the surface, while ELF frequencies are used for deeply submerged subs. Examples of naval VLF transmitters are Since 2004

16188-588: The phase of radio waves received from fixed VLF navigation beacon transmitters. The worldwide Omega system used frequencies from 10 to 14 kHz, as did Russia's Alpha . VLF was also used for standard time and frequency broadcasts. In the US, the time signal station WWVL began transmitting a 500 W signal on 20 kHz in August ;1963. It used frequency-shift keying ( FSK ) to send data, shifting between 20 kHz and 26 kHz. The WWVL service

16330-454: The photo of a binary star. As the point sources move closer together, the patterns will start to overlap, and ultimately they will merge to form a single pattern, in which case the two point sources cannot be resolved in the image. The Rayleigh criterion specifies that two point sources are considered "resolved" if the separation of the two images is at least the radius of the Airy disk, i.e. if

16472-411: The point from the slit. We can find the angle at which a first minimum is obtained in the diffracted light by the following reasoning. The light from a source located at the top edge of the slit interferes destructively with a source located at the middle of the slit, when the path difference between them is equal to λ / 2 {\displaystyle \lambda /2} . Similarly,

16614-416: The potential to meet the Heaviside condition. However, Stone left the company in 1899 and the idea was never implemented. Stone's cable was an example of continuous loading, a principle that was eventually put into practice in other forms, see for instance Krarup cable later in this article. George Campbell was another AT&T engineer working in their Boston facility. Campbell was tasked with continuing

16756-426: The power dissipated in the antenna/ground system resistances. Very high power transmitters (~1 megawatt) are required for long-distance communication, so the efficiency of the antenna is an important factor. High power VLF transmitting stations use capacitively-toploaded monopole antennas . These are very large wire antennas, up to several kilometers long. They consist of a series of steel radio masts , linked at

16898-413: The power from the transmitter, applied to the antenna through the antenna's transmission line , excites standing waves of voltage and current in the antenna element. To be “naturally” resonant, the antenna must have a physical length of one quarter of the wavelength of the radio waves used (or a multiple of that length, with odd multiples usually preferred). At resonance, the antenna acts electrically as

17040-447: The problem, but early 20th century installations using balanced pairs were often continuously loaded with iron wire or tape rather than discretely with loading coils, which avoided the sealing problem. Loading coils are historically also known as Pupin coils after Mihajlo Pupin , especially when used for the Heaviside condition and the process of inserting them is sometimes called pupinization . A common application of loading coils

17182-728: The received VLF signal. For a more detailed list, see List of VLF-transmitters ELF 3 Hz/100 Mm 30 Hz/10 Mm SLF 30 Hz/10 Mm 300 Hz/1 Mm ULF 300 Hz/1 Mm 3 kHz/100 km VLF 3 kHz/100 km 30 kHz/10 km LF 30 kHz/10 km 300 kHz/1 km MF 300 kHz/1 km 3 MHz/100 m HF 3 MHz/100 m 30 MHz/10 m VHF 30 MHz/10 m 300 MHz/1 m UHF 300 MHz/1 m 3 GHz/100 mm SHF 3 GHz/100 mm 30 GHz/10 mm EHF 30 GHz/10 mm 300 GHz/1 mm THF 300 GHz/1 mm 3 THz/0.1 mm Diffraction Diffraction

17324-426: The relative phases as well as the amplitudes of the individual waves so that the summed amplitude of the waves can have any value between zero and the sum of the individual amplitudes. Hence, diffraction patterns usually have a series of maxima and minima. In the modern quantum mechanical understanding of light propagation through a slit (or slits) every photon is described by its wavefunction that determines

17466-444: The same phase. Light incident at a given point in the space downstream of the slit is made up of contributions from each of these point sources and if the relative phases of these contributions vary by 2 π {\displaystyle 2\pi } or more, we may expect to find minima and maxima in the diffracted light. Such phase differences are caused by differences in the path lengths over which contributing rays reach

17608-427: The size of the gap. Diffraction is greatest when the size of the gap is similar to the wavelength of the wave. In this case, when the waves pass through the gap they become semi-circular . Da Vinci might have observed diffraction in a broadening of the shadow. The effects of diffraction of light were first carefully observed and characterized by Francesco Maria Grimaldi , who also coined the term diffraction , from

17750-480: The solution to this equation can be readily shown to be the scalar Green's function , which in the spherical coordinate system (and using the physics time convention e − i ω t {\displaystyle e^{-i\omega t}} ) is ψ ( r ) = e i k r 4 π r . {\displaystyle \psi (r)={\frac {e^{ikr}}{4\pi r}}.} This solution assumes that

17892-399: The source just below the top of the slit will interfere destructively with the source located just below the middle of the slit at the same angle. We can continue this reasoning along the entire height of the slit to conclude that the condition for destructive interference for the entire slit is the same as the condition for destructive interference between two narrow slits a distance apart that

18034-1282: The source point in the aperture is given by the vector r ′ = x ′ x ^ + y ′ y ^ . {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} '=x'\mathbf {\hat {x}} +y'\mathbf {\hat {y}} .} In the far field, wherein the parallel rays approximation can be employed, the Green's function, ψ ( r | r ′ ) = e i k | r − r ′ | 4 π | r − r ′ | , {\displaystyle \psi (\mathbf {r} |\mathbf {r} ')={\frac {e^{ik|\mathbf {r} -\mathbf {r} '|}}{4\pi |\mathbf {r} -\mathbf {r} '|}},} simplifies to ψ ( r | r ′ ) = e i k r 4 π r e − i k ( r ′ ⋅ r ^ ) {\displaystyle \psi (\mathbf {r} |\mathbf {r} ')={\frac {e^{ikr}}{4\pi r}}e^{-ik(\mathbf {r} '\cdot \mathbf {\hat {r}} )}} as can be seen in

18176-720: The surface of the water – for example a Buoyant Cable Array Antenna (BCAA). Modern receivers use sophisticated digital signal processing techniques to remove the effects of atmospheric noise (largely caused by lightning strikes around the world) and adjacent channel signals, extending the useful reception range. Strategic nuclear bombers of the United States Air Force receive VLF signals as part of hardened nuclear resilient operations. Two alternative character sets may be used: 5 bit ITA2 or 8 bit ASCII . Because these are military transmissions they are almost always encrypted for security reasons. Although it

18318-547: The top with a network of cables, often shaped like an umbrella or clotheslines. Either the towers themselves or vertical wires serve as monopole radiators, and the horizontal cables form a capacitive top-load to increase the current in the vertical wires, increasing the radiated power and efficiency of the antenna. High-power stations use variations on the umbrella antenna such as the "delta" and " trideco " antennas, or multiwire flattop (triatic) antennas. For low-power transmitters, inverted-L and T antennas are used. Due to

18460-411: The transmitter . The two currents at the same frequency running in opposite directions causes standing waves on the transmission line , measured as a standing wave ratio (SWR) greater than one. The elevated currents waste energy by heating the wire, and can even overheat the transmitter. To make an electrically short antenna resonant, a loading coil is inserted in series with the antenna. The coil

18602-413: The transmitting frequency requires a variable inductor ( variometer ) to tune the antenna. The large VLF antennas used for high-power transmitters usually have bandwidths of only 50–100 hertz. The high Q results in very high voltages (up to 250 kV) on the antenna and very good insulation is required. Large VLF antennas usually operate in 'voltage limited' mode: the maximum power of the transmitter

18744-433: The use of common cores, such loading coils do not comprise transformers , as they do not provide coupling to other circuits. Loading coils inserted periodically in series with a pair of wires reduce the attenuation at the higher voice frequencies up to the cutoff frequency of the low-pass filter formed by the inductance of the coils (plus the distributed inductance of the wires) and the distributed capacitance between

18886-426: The wave front of the emitted beam has perturbations, only the transverse coherence length (where the wave front perturbation is less than 1/4 of the wavelength) should be considered as a Gaussian beam diameter when determining the divergence of the laser beam. If the transverse coherence length in the vertical direction is higher than in horizontal, the laser beam divergence will be lower in the vertical direction than in

19028-405: The wavefront emerging from the slit would resemble a cylindrical wave with azimuthal symmetry; If d ≫ λ {\displaystyle d\gg \lambda } , only θ ≈ 0 {\displaystyle \theta \approx 0} would have appreciable intensity, hence the wavefront emerging from the slit would resemble that of geometrical optics . When

19170-487: The waves so they don't escape into space. The waves travel in a zig-zag path around the Earth, reflected alternately by the Earth and the ionosphere, in transverse magnetic (TM) mode. VLF waves have very low path attenuation, 2–3 dB per 1,000 km, with little of the " fading " experienced at higher frequencies. This is because VLF waves are reflected from the bottom of the ionosphere, while higher frequency shortwave signals are returned to Earth from higher layers in

19312-399: The wires. Above the cutoff frequency, attenuation increases rapidly. The shorter the distance between the coils, the higher the cut-off frequency. The cutoff effect is an artifact of using lumped inductors. With loading methods using continuous distributed inductance there is no cutoff. Without loading coils, the line response is dominated by the resistance and capacitance of the line with

19454-432: Was between Jamaica Plain and West Newton in Boston on 18 May 1900. Campbell's work on loading coils provided the theoretical basis for his subsequent work on filters which proved to be so important for frequency-division multiplexing . The cut-off phenomena of loading coils, an undesirable side-effect, can be exploited to produce a desirable filter frequency response. Michael Pupin , inventor and Serbian immigrant to

19596-463: Was discontinued in July ;1972. Naturally occurring signals in the VLF band are used by geophysicists for long range lightning location and for research into atmospheric phenomena such as the aurora. Measurements of whistlers are employed to infer the physical properties of the magnetosphere . Geophysicists use VLF- electromagnetic receivers to measure conductivity in the near surface of

19738-407: Was due to the slow internal machinations of AT&T. However, AT&T foolishly deleted from Campbell's proposed patent application all the tables and graphs detailing the exact value of inductance that would be required before the patent was submitted. Since Pupin's patent contained a (less accurate) formula, AT&T was open to claims of incomplete disclosure. Fearing that there was a risk that

19880-481: Was implied by a low-intensity double-slit experiment first performed by G. I. Taylor in 1909 . The quantum approach has some striking similarities to the Huygens-Fresnel principle ; based on that principle, as light travels through slits and boundaries, secondary point light sources are created near or along these obstacles, and the resulting diffraction pattern is going to be the intensity profile based on

20022-533: Was of enormous value to AT&T. Telephone cables could now be used to twice the distance previously possible, or alternatively, a cable of half the previous quality (and cost) could be used over the same distance. When considering whether to allow Campbell to go ahead with the demonstration, their engineers had estimated that they stood to save $ 700,000 in new installation costs in New York and New Jersey alone. It has been estimated that AT&T saved $ 100 million in

20164-438: Was used for long distance transoceanic radio communication during the wireless telegraphy era between about 1905 and 1925. Nations built networks of high-power LF and VLF radiotelegraphy stations that transmitted text information by Morse code , to communicate with other countries, their colonies, and naval fleets. Early attempts were made to use radiotelephone using amplitude modulation and single-sideband modulation within

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