Mark,
There seems to be two big missing dots to connect for a plasmon/polariton theory to fit the HotCat circumstances. (and probably a lot of lesser dots) We know that Rossi's old US patent application had an image indicating Ni particle size of 10 microns. That fits in nicely. But the role of Ni-62 is not clear. If there is a cross-connection, I have missed it. It is possible that Rossi's technique of treating 10 micron nickel forces the heavier isotopes to the surface, but there is no obvious way to do that. And even if it happened - what difference does it make? The second missing dot is the spectrum of the gainful emission spectrum. We can assume that the pumping spectrum is 10 micron (.124 eV) but where is the gain? There is some evidence of 300 eV which is a soft x-ray, but that begs the question of how the two are connected (other than the nickel ionization hole). BTW although 10 micron has a high effective temperature for the coherent photon, it is also the peak of the average blackbody emission of what we call "ambient" (290 K). IOW the Earth radiates in a spectrum with a peak at 10 microns. But the confusing detail is that a 10 micron photon has a mass energy of .124 eV. Since 1 eV= 11,600 degrees Kelvin it is all the more confusing to envision the earth as a 10 micron emitter. From: MarkI-ZeroPoint Morning Jones! Couldn't sleep, so did some 'serendipitous surfing' to see what rabbit hole I fall into. As far as how to couple an atom's emissions into the lattice. "Cavity-enhanced channeling of emission from an atom into a nanofiber" http://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.5276.pdf -Mark From: Jones Beene Interesting that the plasmonic whispering gallery came up several years ago in the context of an IR laser. long before AR . but of course, few in LENR were tuned-in to the possibilities back then. http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2009/01/22/plasmonic-whispering-gall ery/ It's probably no coincidence that the geometry of interest is around 10 microns. Based on the possibility that the HotCat is essentially a robust 10 micron superradiant resonator, Rossi should be able to easily ditch the resistance heater and pump his reactor directly with a CO2 laser, which naturally emits where SiC is 100% reflective. The optics are available. It is a bit of a surprise that Letts & Cravens missed the CO2 laser (if they did) - since the beat frequency is kind of a kludge. The result of mating the HotCat to a small laser could be an intense laser amplifier that would put LANL to shame. Rossi, or someone on his staff, seem to be tuned into this now. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit. However, there seems to have been a major breakthrough last autumn, and now they seem to understanding the plasmonics and polariton dynamics which made it possible. Actually, it is a safe prediction that we will see a laser-pumped HotCat device from Rossi's team soon. What will they call it ? RayCat has a nice sound . Reagan must be rolling over in his grave. In all fairness - this could not be the work of Rossi alone unless he is a greater genius than suspected. He should give his staff some of the credit. From: Axil Axil The whispering gallery is located in the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, London, and has the curious property that if two people stand at opposite sides of the gallery, at a distance of 42 meters, and one whispers into the wall of the dome, then the other person can hear what is being said. If the two individuals face one another and continue the conversation across the expanse of the dome they can no longer hear the words and have to resort to shouting. The reason for this strange effect is that the sound bounces along the wall of the gallery with very little loss, and so can be heard at a greater distance than if the curved wall had no been present. It can be viewed that there is a narrow region near the edge of the dome where the waves propagate most efficiently, and this is known as a 'whispering gallery mode' in honour of gallery where it was discovered. In recent times whispering gallery modes have found new fame with the development of nano-optics. In the modern version of this effect light is made to bounce around the edge of a glass sphere. This setup appears to be very similar to that already depicted, although there are some subtle differences. Under normal conditions when light reaches an interface some of it will be reflected and some will be transmitted. However, if the light is in glass and is travelling back into air there is an angle at which the light can no longer be transmitted and it suffers total internal reflection - exactly 100% of the light is reflected, a very useful effect to reduce losses. When light is travelling around the edge of a sphere it will be total reflected at each bounce, and so propagate with little loss (in fact a very small amount of light leaks out with each bounce due to the curved surface, but this get very complicated so it will be ignored for now). Since the light will make many millions of circulations of the sphere before being absorbed it will undergo interference with itself. This means that only whole numbers of wavelengths of light can 'fit' around the edge of the sphere. This selectivity causes discrete modes, known as whispering gallery modes, to exist in the cavity, and these modes are of the lowest loss anywhere in existence. The problem when studying whispering gallery modes is that the low loss makes it very hard to get light into- or out of- these modes. In our work we placed light emitters around the edges of the sphere, when pumped with a laser these emit light directly into the whispering gallery cavity mode, so no coupling is required. To observe the output light we rely on the fact the spheres are not quite perfect and so some light is scattered out. From the spectra of this light we discover that only certain wavelengths are strongly present, as expected, each corresponding to a different number of bounces around the spheres circumference. In a Ni/H reactor, infrared light goes into the whispering galleries and goes around and around with little attenuation. But light is lost and strengthen because of self-interference and resonance. What remains in these nano-resonators is ultra strong blue light but this light is far more than just light. This EMF are plasmons. Plasmons are light and electrons whose waveforms have joined together because of heat driven dipole excitations. The ring of light becomes an intense plasmoid of electric charge that emits anaopole magnetic radiation right on the atoms of the nano-resonators. This is what produces the LENR effect inside the nucleus of the atom.
