Is this what Fred is getting all "Stoked" up about?
"When a phosphor or other luminescent substance emits light, it gives in most cases an emission according to Stokes' Law.
This law states that the wavelength of the fluorescent (emitted) light is always greater than the wavelength of the exciting radiation. It was first observed in 1852 in the memoir "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light," by Sir G.G. Stokes. In terms of energy the relationship states that e em < e ab. While Stokes' Law holds for the majority of cases, it does not hold in certain instances. In some cases the wave length is the same for both the absorbed and the emitted radiation. That is, the efficiency appears to be perfect or unity. This is known as resonance radiation. In other cases Stokes' Law does not hold where the energy emitted is greater than the energy absorbed. This is known as Anti-Stokes emission.
In 1935 Prileshajewa showed that there is an energy difference as much as 1.1 v between the exciting light and the fluorescence of aniline vapor. This added energy is attributed to additions from the internal energy of the molecule."
However, when the active medium produces excess energy emission, and continues to do so, then the added energy cannot be attributed to additions from the internal energy of the molecule, unless the internal energy of the molecule is itself continually being replaced from -- you guessed it -- the vacuum's fierce interaction with the molecule's charges. Further, the dynamic dipoles comprising the molecule or the particle/liquid boundary, can produce double-surface E-fields of large magnitude, as is well-known in electrochemistry. Multipass retroreflection between TiO2 particles (Lawandy) or between palladium-clad, charged beads (Patterson) can collect and disperse (as scattered coherent photons) additional energy from the powerful S-flows of the double-surface Poynting generators.
It follows that, by "doctoring" anti-Stokes radiation situations so as to allow multipass retroreflection and thus multicollection, a permissible overunity process emerges that is practical. It is also one which can be developed into commercial overunity and even self-energizing power sources.
Excess emission from a medium has been known for a long time, but not much has been done with it until the work of Letokhov and the work and inventions of Lawandy.
Nabil M. Lawandy, "Optical Gain Medium Having Doped Nanocrystals of Semiconductors and Also Optical Scatterers," U.S. Patent No. 5,434,878, July 18, 1995; ____ "Second Harmonic Generation and Self Frequency Doubling Laser Materials Comprised of Bulk Germanosilicate and Aluminosilicate Glasses," U.S. Patent No. 5,157,674, Oct. 20, 1992; ____ "Optical Gain Medium Having Doped Nanocrystals of Semiconductors and Also Optical Scatterers," U.S. Patent No. 5,233,621, Aug. 3, 1993; ____ "Optically Encoded Phase Matched Second harmonic Generation Device and Self Frequency Doubling Laser Material Using Semiconductor Microcrystallite Doped Glasses," U.S. Patent No. 5,253,258, Oct. 12, 1993; ____ "Optical Sources Having a Strongly Scattering Gain Medium Providing Laser-like Action," U.S. Patent application No. 08/210,710, filed Mar. 19, 1994. See also Nabil M. Lawandy, R.M. Balachandran, A.S.L. Gomes and E. Sauvain, "Laser action in strongly scattering media," Nature, Letters, 368(6470), Mar. 31, 1994, p. 436-438.
