Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Solid-state laser refrigeration of a composite semiconductor Yb:YLiF4 optomechanical resonator

  • Anupum Pant,
  • Xiaojing Xia,
  • E. James Davis,
  • Peter J. Pauzauskie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16472-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Optically refrigerated resonators may be useful in optical devices and exploring quantum effects. Here, the authors show laser refrigeration of a semiconductor mechanical oscillator Yb:YLF host crystal and lowering the thermal load temperature.