Laser cooling of a solid by 21 K starting from room temperature

Optics Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 639-641

  Luo, X ^a   Eisaman, M D ^a   Gosnell, T R ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; GLASS; IONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM OPTICS; TEMPERATURE; YTTERBIUM;

ANTI STOKES FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROZIRCONATE GLASS; LASER COOLING; OPTICAL SATURATION;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0032050030     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.23.000639     Document Type: Article

References (9)

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7. See Ref. 5 for an example of the relaxation waveform measured with a 250-μm fiber.
8. 2 (2-3%) in the ZBLANP composition, values of the mass density and specific heat for ZBLAN are used as approximations to the corresponding values for ZBLANP.
9. A value of 1.0 for the effective emissivity was assumed in Ref. 5.