US 5,313,544 AGranted

Wave guide and material comprising wave guides, and its applications and manufacture

OwnerWillem Lentinkinventor

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Abstract

A wave guide or an assembly of wave guides, characterized in that each wave guide meets the conditions that: 1) at least one of the characteristics of the wave guide is of the same order of magnitude as the largest absolute value of the de Broglie wavelength .lambda..sub.b of a particle or a collectivity of particles moving or able to move through the wave guide; 2) the dimensions of the irregularities of the wall of the wave guide are small with respect to .vertline..lambda..sub.c .vertline., the absolute value of the cutoff wavelength .lambda..sub.c of the wave guide, with the property that for each particle with de Broglie wavelength .lambda..sub.b that moves in the wave guide, holds .vertline..lambda..sub.b .vertline..ltoreq..vertline..lambda..sub.c .vertline.; and 3) .lambda..sub.c has a limited value, and can be found with the aid of the solutions of a relevant wave equation which has been solved by meeting fitting boundary conditions; in that, for the case of photons or luxons, the conditions is met that 4a) the relation between the wavelength .lambda. of the electromagnetic waves and the wavelength .lambda..sub.b of the de Broglie waves, which corresponds with these photons, is given by .lambda.=.lambda..sub.b ; and that, for the case in which the particles are neither photons nor luxons, the following conditions are met; 4b) that the energies of these particles are discrete and the physical phenomena in the wave guide and/or caused by the wave guide can not be described in good approximation without using quantum mechanics, i.e. that the results of these calculations then do not exclusively correspond within 5% with the observations; wherein a characteristic dimension is the distance in between two neighbouring pieces of boundary layer, between which a particle or a collectivity of particles can move, when .vertline..PSI..vertline., the absolute value of the wavefunction .PSI. of one particle or a collectivity of particles moving in the wave guide, as a function of the space coordinates, takes an constant value .vertline..PSI..sub.k .vertline..

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Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising at least one wave guide w for de Broglie waves and at least one particle p interacting with said wave guide wherein:

a) said particle p has momentum and energy and if said particle p is not a collectivity of identical particles and if it can be represented by an electromagnetic wave then it has a de Broglie wavelength .lambda..sub.b equal to the wavelength .lambda. of that electromagnetic wave;
b) said wave guide w having walls that define cross-sections A.sub.j that define both a cutoff wavelength for said wave guide w and circumferences C(A.sub.j) of the cross-sections A.sub.j ;
c) each of said circumferences C(A.sub.j) has either property I or property II:
property I provides that:
in every point of C(A.sub.j) a left tangent to C(A.sub.j) coincides with a right tangent to C(A.sub.j);
and
property II provides that:
there exists at least one point of C(A.sub.j) in which a left tangent to C(A.sub.j) does not coincide with a right tangent to C(A.sub.j);
d) each of said cross-sections A.sub.j has at least one characteristic dimension;
e) a characteristic dimension of a cross-section A.sub.j having property I is the distance between two points on C(A.sub.j) between which a particle transmitted by said wave guide w can move, provided:
(i) the tangents in said two points to the circumference C(A.sub.j) are parallel or anti-parallel to one another;
(ii) a straight line connecting said two points is normal to said tangents;
f) a characteristic dimension of a cross-section A.sub.j having property II is equal to a diameter of the largest circle that can be bonded by cross-section A.sub.j ;
g) there exists at least one set K or particles of the same kind;
h) in a case where at least one particle is transmitted by said wave guide w, in said wave guide w, in a region R between two cross-sections A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 of w, the energy density .rho..sub.u (R) of the particles being transmitted by said wave guide w that are elements of said set K or the average energy U(R) of the particles being transmitted by said wave guide w that are elements of said set K, is a function of an average value d.sub.0 of the smallest characteristic dimensions of the cross-sections A.sub.j situated between said two cross-sections, in such a way that ##EQU12## and, said average value d.sub.0 has the property that in the domain [d.sub.0,2d.sub.0 ] there exists a factor y and an average value d.sub.01 of the smallest characteristic dimension of wave guide w in the region R, so that ##EQU13## hold, where y is 0<y.ltoreq.1;
i) said particle p has one or more of the following interactions with said wave guide w:
(i) transmission,
(ii) reflection,
(iii) emission,
(iv) absorbtion, and
(v) adsorbtion.

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An apparatus comprising at least one wave guide w for de Broglie waves and at least one particle p interacting with said wave guide wherein:

a) said particle p has momentum and energy and if said particle p is not a collectivity of identical particles and if it can be represented by an electromagnetic wave then it has a de Broglie wavelength .lambda..sub.b equal to the wavelength .lambda. of that electromagnetic wave;
b) said wave guide w having walls that define cross-sections A.sub.j that define both a cutoff wavelength for said wave guide w and circumferences C(A.sub.j) of the cross-sections A.sub.j ;
c) each of said circumferences C(A.sub.j) has either property I or property II:
property I provides that:
in every point of C(A.sub.j) a left tangent to C(A.sub.j) coincides with a right tangent to C(A.sub.j);
and
property II provides that:
there exists at least one point of C(A.sub.j) in which a left tangent to C(A.sub.j) does not coincide with a right tangent to C(A.sub.j);
d) each of said cross-sections A.sub.j has at least one characteristic dimension;
e) a characteristic dimension of a cross-section A.sub.j having property I is the distance between two points on C(A.sub.j) between which a particle transmitted by said wave guide w can move, provided:
(i) the tangents in said two points to the circumference C(A.sub.j) are parallel or anti-parallel to one another;
(ii) a straight line connecting said two points is normal to said tangents;
f) a characteristic dimension of a cross-section A.sub.j having property II is equal to a diameter of the largest circle that can be bounded by cross-section A.sub.j ;
g) there exists at least one set K of particles of the same kind;
h) reflection takes place with the outer surface of said wave guide w, and
i) there is at least one particle element of at least one of said sets K that has the property that the value of its de Broglie wavelength is greater than the value of the cutoff wavelength of said wave guide w.

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