Abstract
AbstractLaser cooling of a solid is achieved when a coherent laser illuminates the material in the red tail of its absorption spectrum, and the heat is carried out by anti-Stokes fluorescence of the blue-shifted photons. Solid-state laser cooling has been successfully demonstrated in several materials, including rare-earth-doped crystals and glasses. Here we show the net cooling of high-purity Yb-doped silica glass samples that are fabricated with low impurities to reduce their parasitic background loss for fiber laser applications. The non-radiative decay rate of the excited state in Yb ions is very small in these glasses due to the low level of impurities, resulting in near-unity quantum efficiency. We report the measurement of the cooling efficiency as a function of the laser wavelength, from which the quantum efficiency of the Yb-doped silica is calculated.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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25 articles.
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