Simulation and experiment of X-ray communication in re-entry dusty plasma region

Abstract

Compared with the other wireless communication band, X-ray carrier has the merits of lower wavelength, higher frequency and photon energy, which could provide a novel method to solve the communication problems of re-entry blackout region. In this paper, transmission characteristics of X-ray carrier in the re-entry dusty plasma medium were analyzed first, simulation results indicate that dusty particles were more likely to impede the microwave signal than X-ray carrier. Then an alkali metal plasma source was designed to simulate the re-entry dusty plasma sheath for simplification. Transmission co-efficiency under different X-ray energy were tested, which pointed out that X-ray signal would obtain more than 79.4% transmission co-efficiency on condition of dynamic and dusty plasma medium. Finally, we give our proposal and potential capability of X-ray communication in the re-entry plasma condition.