Improving engine efficiency by extracting laser energy from hot exhaust gas

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 538111-538118

  Rostovtsev, Y V ^a   Matsko, A B ^a   Nayak, N ^a   Zubairy, M S ^a,b   Scully, M O ^a,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CARNOT CYCLE; HEAT ENGINES; MICROWAVES; OTTO CYCLE;

LASER ENERGY;

LASERS;

EID: 0038445626     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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2. For an insightful discussion of the physics see E. Lieb and J. Yngvason, Phys. Today 53(10), 12 (2000); for applications see K. Wark, Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1995).
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5. The first law is stated physically and mathematically as "There are no perpetual motion machines of the first kind" and "The change in internal energy is an exact derivative which has to be zero for any isolated system." The second law is stated in many different ways, for example, in a textbook we read: [T]he Kelvin-Planck statement of the second law of thermodynamics is expressed as follows: "It is impossible for any device that operates on a cycle to receive heat from a single reservoir and produce a net amount of work." In this context, Wark says: "A device which violates the above statement is known as a perpetual-motion machine of the second kind. It produces work solely by the cooling of a body. Hence we cannot directly use the vast quantities of energy in the oceans and the atmosphere on earth to produce work." The change in entropy is an exact derivative which cannot be negative for any isolated system. In the words of Planck: "The Second Law of Thermodynamics, with all its extensions, has become the Principle of Increase of Entropy . . . ."
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9. D. Klepnner and S. Haroche, Phys. Today 42(1), 24 (1989); S. Haroche and J. M. Raimond, in Atomic and Molecular Physics edited by D. Bates and B. Bederson (Academic, New York, 1985), Vol. 20, p. 350; D. Meschede, H. Walther, and G. Müller, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 551 (1985); A review is given by G. Raithel, C. Wagner, H. Walther, L. M. Narducci, and M. Scully, in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, edited by P. R. Berman (Academic, Boston, 1994), p. 57; The first theory for the micromaser was given by P. Filipowicz, J. Javanainen, and P. Meystre, Phys. Rev. A 34, 3077 (1985).
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12. 3 operation closer to the current LWI research but they are not as simple and will be published elsewhere.
13. 3 operation closer to the current LWI research but they are not as simple and will be published elsewhere.
14. 3 operation closer to the current LWI research but they are not as simple and will be published elsewhere.
15. 3 operation closer to the current LWI research but they are not as simple and will be published elsewhere.
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20. The photon statistical distribution for the laser is found in M.O. Scully and W.E. Lamb, Phys. Rev. Lett. 16, 853 (1966); The derivation of M. Lax is to be found in W. Louisell, Quantum Statistical Properties of Radiation (Wiley, New York, 1973).