Critical Frequency

In telecommunication, the term critical frequency has the following meanings:
  • At vertical incidence, the limiting frequency at or below which incidence, the wave component is reflected by, and above which it penetrates through, an ionospheric layer.
The existence of the critical frequency is the result of electron limitation, i.e., the inadequacy of the existing number of free electrons to support reflection at higher frequencies. In signal processing the critical frequency it is also another name for the Nyquist frequency.

 

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