Jones, This is a worthy project. I am still trying to re-learn the optical physics I forgot years ago. So, I cannot add much input yet, but if LENR is real, probably some kinds of coherent phenomena are involved. If I have any insights, I will post them later.
Also, if you have references for electron spin-to-work conversion, please post URLs of any available online papers. BTW, here is a paper on super-/sub-radiance that generalizes the phenomenon to entangled systems larger than wave-length size - "Quantum interference initiated super- and subradiant emission from entangled atoms" http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2989 -- Lou Pagnucco Jones Beene wrote: > 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. > [...]
