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LASER COOLING

Levitating the fridge

Nature Photonics volume 11, pages 613–614 (2017)Cite this article

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Simultaneous trapping, alignment and anti-Stokes fluorescence cooling of Yb3+:YLF nanocrystals from room temperature to temperatures as low as about 130 K can now be realized using a single-beam optical dipole trap within a low-pressure environment.

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Fig. 1: Optical refrigeration.
Fig. 2: Optical levitation and refrigeration.

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