Axil Axil wrote:
| What makes this Nanoplasmonic LENR reaction different is the use of
carbon nanotubes and more surprising an incoherent light source.
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| The other Nanoplasmonic reaction types similar to this one used gold
nanoparticles and laser light.
I don’t find the use of an incoherent light source that surprising. The
Coherence Length of a Light Source is inversely proportional to its Bandwidth.
A White Light Source with a UV Filter would have a Coherence Length in the
vicinity of 0.5 microns or 500 nm; quite adequate when attempting to illuminate
quasi-particles on a structure of the order of 10 to 50 nm. This also allows
relaxed Energy Matching (coupling) to an excitation such as a Surface
Plasmon-Polariton (I’m not pinning the quasi-particle excitation to Surface
Plasmons; Carbon Nanotubes have exhibited a rich array of excitations) by
illuminating the Nanotubes with Photons of a wide array of energies. For
example, see:
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/aop/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-49-13-2470
Sorry, I don’t have a more direct link, right now.
To efficiently couple to such a quasi-excitation, one must match the energy
and momentum of the particular excitation. As noted in the patent, red laser
light works but doesn’t give as strong a response, which seems to fit this
thinking...
... The heavy water (D2O) tipped at 45 degrees could act as a “prism” and
slow down the photons for proper momentum (wave vector) matching to the
excitations; rotating ensures proper orientation of many more nanotubes than if
it wasn’t rotated...
I suspect that in this patent/demonstration, one would have to use the
highest power halogen light source available and illuminate the Rotating Glass
Beaker for very long periods of time. This might be a very simple experiment
to replicate, but take some time.
- Mark Jurich
