Lou, It might be informative for any of us who have an interest in coherent or semi-coherent emission and absorption in the optical spectrum (or lower), to take this idea further - and try to find actual parameters for a stimulated lasing regime which "on paper" could be active inside the stainless tube of the HotCat. A good place to start is "chemisorption." Can we "supersize" it?
Such an outcome could be inadvertent (on Rossi's part) and it could be "quasi" coherent, in the sense of superradiant. And the purpose is not to produce a beam per se- but to produce an internal resonance for thermal gain via a photon positive feedback of some type. Here is a paper on optical pumping of an IR laser http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1006553 Thermal input alone can in principle provide the IR light needed by the lasing medium, which we could presume as a starting argument is a hydrogen based molecule. However, the input of HotCat would surely be limited to a long wavelength based on 800 degree C thermal radiation unless it comes from a chemical reaction triggered by that thermal input. If the gain is related to a whole fraction of the Rydberg energy, then there are only a few frequencies of interest in this range. In the paper above, experiments are performed on a optically pumped KF or hydrogen fluoride laser. Rotation-vibration transitions in the (2,0) band around 1.3 micrometers are pumped, and lasing is observed on (2,1) band transitions near 2.7 micrometers. As fate would have it, a transition of interest in "chemisorption" known reactions happens to be in this same micron range. That is the hydrogen-copper system. It has a large activation energy of .35 to .85 eV. which includes two Rydberg whole fractions. The vibrational excitation of the hydrogen molecule is known to promote dissociation on low index surfaces of copper and copper nickel. As it turns out, .85 eV is a whole fraction of the Rydberg energy and along with .425 eV would be of interest as the active semi-coherent radiation spectra capable of the ultimate goal - sequential pumping protons lodged in nickel into deeply redundant ground states ... where gain comes from conversion of electron angular momentum into energy. No nuclear transitions are required for this. Jones -----Original Message----- From: pagnu...@htdconnect.com Perhaps, this early e-catworld report is relevant - Report From Visitor to Defkalion http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/03/report-from-visitor-to-defkalion/ Excerpt: "...I was told that they were trying to actually see what happens in their device with some glass with a melting point of 1500 deg C. They saw it light up like the sun and then it melted the glass. This just took a second or two. I was told what their working theory was, but they really don't know what is going on. They have brought in several academics with a myriad of explanations ..." > A new arxiv paper, possibly related to missing LENR em-emissions - "Superabsorption of light via quantum engineering" > ABSTRACT: Almost 60 years ago Dicke introduced the term superradiance to > describe a signature quantum effect: N atoms can collectively emit light > at a rate proportional to N^2... Structures that super-radiate must also > have enhanced absorption... > Robert Dicke is one of the true heroes of Modern Science. He is not > generally credited with inventing the laser but in 1956 Dicke filed a > patent entitled "Molecular Amplification Generation Systems and Methods" > with a claim for an infrared laser. Townes usually gets the credit, but > his patent was not filed until 1958. > B.V. Zhdanov has done extensive work on potassium lasers, so we know this > is possible. There is a pretty good chance that the Rossi HotCat is a > resonant IR device using potassium stimulated emission, which may involve > superabsorption and superradiance. This could be a photon chain reaction > of some type.
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