Laser cooling of solids to cryogenic temperatures

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 161-164

  Seletskiy, Denis V ^a   Melgaard, Seth D ^a   Bigotta, Stefano ^b,c   Di Lieto, Alberto ^b   Tonelli, Mauro ^b   Sheik Bahae, Mansoor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c FRENCH GERMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAINT LOUIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-STOKES FLUORESCENCE; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; CRYSTALLINE HOSTS; LASER COOLING OF SOLIDS; MECHANICAL REFRIGERATION; MICROMECHANICAL OSCILLATORS; OPTICAL REFRIGERATION; TRANSLATIONAL ENERGY;

LASER COOLING; REFRIGERATION; YTTERBIUM;

DENSITY OF GASES;

EID: 77950473367     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.269     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Hänsch, T. W. & Schawlow, A. L. Cooling of gases by laser radiation. Opt. Commun. 13, 68-69 (1975).
2. Chu, S., Cohen-Tannoudji, C. & Philips, W. D. For development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. Nobel Prize in Physics http://nobelprize.org (1997).
3. Vogl, U. & Weitz, M. Laser cooling by collisional redistribution of radiation. Nature 461, 70-74 (2009).
4. Pringsheim, P. Zwei bemerkungen über den unterschied von lumineszenz- und temperaturstrahlung. Z. Phys. 57, 739-746 (1929).
5. Epstein, R. I., Buchwald, M., Edwards, B., Gosnell, T. & Mungan, C. Observation of laser induced fluorescent cooling of a solid. Nature 377, 500-503 (1995).
6. Sheik-Bahae, M. & Epstein, R. I. Optical refrigeration. Nature Photon. 12, 693-699 (2007).
7. Mungan, C. E., Buchwald, M. I., Edwards, B. C., Epstein, R. I. & Gosnell, T. R. Laser cooling of a solid by 16 K starting from room temperature. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1030-1033 (1997). (Pubitemid 127648093)
8. Bowman, S. R. & Mungan, C. E. New materials for optical cooling. Appl. Phys. B 71, 807-811 (2000).
9. Hoyt, C. W., Sheik-Bahae, M., Epstein, R. I., Edwards, B. C. & Anderson, J. E. Observation of anti-Stokes fluorescent cooling in thulium-doped glass. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3600-3603 (2000).
10. Mendioroz, A. et al. Anti-Stokes laser cooling in Yb3+-doped KPb2Cl5 crystal. Opt. Lett. 27, 1525-1527 (2002).
11. Fernandez, J., Garcia-Adeva, A. J. & Balda, R. Anti-Stokes laser cooling in bulk erbium-doped materials. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 033001 (2006). (Pubitemid 44079196)
12. Bigotta, S. et al. Spectroscopic and laser cooling results on Yb3+-doped BaY2F8 single crystal. J. Appl. Phys. 100, 013109 (2006).
13. Bigotta, S. et al. Laser cooling of solids: new results with single fluoride crystals. Nuovo Cimento B Serie 122, 685694 (2007).
14. Patterson, W. et al. Anti-Stokes luminescence cooling of Tm3+ doped BaY2F8. Opt. Express 16, 1704-1710 (2008).
15. Condon, N. J., Bowman, S. R., O'Connor, S. P., Quimby, R. S. & Mungan, C. E. Optical cooling in Er3+:KPb2Cl5. Opt. Express 17, 5466-5472 (2009).
16. Thiede, J., Distel, J., Greenfield, S. R. & Epstein, R. I. Cooling to 208 K by optical refrigeration. Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 154107 (2005). (Pubitemid 40861476)
17. Epstein, R. I. & Sheik-Bahae, M. Optical Refrigeration (Wiley-VCH, 2009).
18. Gauck, H., Gfroerer, T. H., Renn, M. J., Cornell, E. A. & Bertness, K. A. External radiative quantum efficiency of 96% from a GaAs/GaInP heterostructure. Appl. Phys. A 64, 143-147 (1997).
19. Sheik-Bahae, M. & Epstein, R. I. Can laser light cool semiconductors? Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 247403 (2004).
20. Finkeissen, E., Potemski, M., Wyder, P., Vina, L. & Weimann, G. Cooling of a semiconductor by luminescence up-conversion. Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 1258-1260 (1999). (Pubitemid 129308562)
21. Höhberger-Metzger, C. & Karrai, K. Cavity cooling of a microlever. Nature 432, 1002-1005 (2004).
22. Hehlen, M. P., Epstein, R. I. & Inoue, H. Model of laser cooling in the Yb3+-doped fluorozirconate glass ZBLAN. Phys. Rev. B 75, 144302 (2007).
23. Sheik-Bahae, M. & Epstein, R. I. Laser cooling of solids. Laser Photon. Rev. 3, 67-84 (2009).
24. Coluccelli, N. et al. Diode pumped passively mode-locked Yb:YLF laser. Opt. Express 16, 2922-2927 (2008). (Pubitemid 351342511)
25. Seletskiy, D. V. et al. Cooling of Yb:YLF using cavity enhanced resonant absorption. Proc. SPIE 6907, 6907B (2008).
26. Sugiyama, A., Katsurayama, M., Anzai, Y. & Tsuboi, T. Spectroscopic properties of Yb doped YLF grown by a vertical Bridgman method. J. Alloy Compound 408-412, 780-783 (2006). (Pubitemid 43131307)
27. Hoyt, C. W. et al. Advances in laser cooling of thulium-doped glass. J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20, 1066-1074 (2003).
28. Imangholi, B. et al. Differential luminescence thermometry in semiconductor laser cooling. Proc. SPIE 6115, 61151C (2006).
29. McCumber, D. E. Einstein relations connecting broadband emission and absorption spectra. Phys. Rev. 136, A954-A957 (1964).
30. Mills, G. & Mord, A. Performance modeling of optical refrigerators. Cryogenics 46, 176-182 (2005). (Pubitemid 43276346)