Tag: laser cooling

• Rapid cooling of semiconductors using lasers (but no sharks)

  Laser cooling (also known as optical cooling) is a well-established technique…but mostly for gases. The basic idea is to disperse the thermal energy of the atoms through shining light on them: the frequency of the laser is set to be slightly lower than the energy of transition between two configurations in the atoms, so that…

  Matthew R. Francis

  January 24, 2013

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  laser cooling, lasers, materials, semiconductors