Optical refrigeration
Subtitle: science and applications of laser cooling of solids
By: edited by Richard Epstein and Mansoor Sheik-Bahae
Contributors: Wiley online library
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Weinheim
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9783527628049; 9783527408764
Subjects: Laser manipulation (Nuclear physics); Laser cooling
Other titles: Science and applications of laser cooling of solids
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Optical refrigeration in solids : fundamentals and overview  -- Richard I. Epstein and Mansoor Sheik-Bahae; title: Design and fabrication of rare-earth-doped laser cooling materials  -- Markus P. Hehlen; title: Laser cooling in fluoride single crystals  -- Stefano Bigotta and Mauro Tonelli; title: Er³₊-doped materials for solid-state cooling  -- Joaquin Fernandez, Angel Garcia-Adeva and Rolindes Balda; title: Laser refrigerator design and applications  -- Gary Mills and Mel Buchwald; title: Microscopic theory of luminescence and its application to the optical refrigeration of semiconductors  -- Greg Rupper, Nai H. Kwong and Rolf Binder; title: Improving the efficience of laser cooling of semiconductors by means of bandgap engineering in electronic and photonic domains  -- Jacob B. Khurgin; title: Thermodynamics of optical cooling of bulk matter -- Carl E. Mungan.