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31 August 2011 Super-radiance and fluorescence are two approaches to laser cooling of solids
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Proceedings Volume 8007, Photonics North 2011; 80070I (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905627
Event: Photonics North 2011, 2011, Ottawa, Canada
Abstract
A new approach to cool solids with super-radiance (SR) pulses is presented in comparison with laser cooling based on traditional anti-Stokes fluorescence. Contrary to the anti-Stokes fluorescence, which is in-coherent radiation propagating in all directions around a sample, SR is the coherent, sharply directed spontaneous emission of photons by a system of excited ions. We consider an Yb3+ doped ZBLAN sample pumped at the wavelength 1015nm with a rectangular pulsed source. The intensity of the SR is proportional to the square of the number of excited ions. This unique feature of SR permits an increase in the rate of the cooling process in comparison with the traditional laser cooling of the rare earth doped solids with anti-Stokes fluorescence. This scheme overcomes the limitation of using only low phonon energy glasses for laser cooling.
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Galina Nemova and Raman Kashyap "Super-radiance and fluorescence are two approaches to laser cooling of solids", Proc. SPIE 8007, Photonics North 2011, 80070I (31 August 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905627
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KEYWORDS
Luminescence

Ions

Solids

Photons

Phonons

Internal quantum efficiency

ZBLAN

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