Review of condensed matter laser cooling using electric-dipole-allowed transitions
Abstract
The cooling of solids via laser-excited anti-Stokes luminescence has reached the cryogenic regime and is now being considered for several applications that benefit from vibration-free cryogenic refrigeration. 4f-4f transitions in rare-earth-doped crystals with low phonon energies currently offer the best laser-cooling performance. These transitions, however, are electric-dipole (ED) forbidden and thus have low cross sections, limiting the minimum achievable temperatures in practical materials to the 50–100 K regime. In contrast, ED-allowed transitions may offer greater cross sections and potentially enable lower minimum temperatures or more compact devices. The search for laser cooling with ED-allowed transitions has been an active field of research over the past decades with a wide variety of materials having been studied. This paper reviews the fundamentals of solid-state laser cooling, provides a preliminary theoretical assessment showing that laser-cooling with ED-allowed transitions is in principle possible, and reviews the experimental results reported to date. While cooling with ED-allowed transitions has not yet been realized in the solid state, the existing experimental body of work along with the theoretical considerations presented here suggest that further research on this topic may be fruitful.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1887155
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-22-25027
Journal ID: ISSN 0022-2313; TRN: US2309778
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001; FA9550-15-1-024; FA9550-16-1-0362
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Luminescence
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 252; Journal ID: ISSN 0022-2313
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
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Hehlen, Markus P. Review of condensed matter laser cooling using electric-dipole-allowed transitions. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.jlumin.2022.119270.
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title = {Review of condensed matter laser cooling using electric-dipole-allowed transitions},
author = {Hehlen, Markus P.},
abstractNote = {The cooling of solids via laser-excited anti-Stokes luminescence has reached the cryogenic regime and is now being considered for several applications that benefit from vibration-free cryogenic refrigeration. 4f-4f transitions in rare-earth-doped crystals with low phonon energies currently offer the best laser-cooling performance. These transitions, however, are electric-dipole (ED) forbidden and thus have low cross sections, limiting the minimum achievable temperatures in practical materials to the 50–100 K regime. In contrast, ED-allowed transitions may offer greater cross sections and potentially enable lower minimum temperatures or more compact devices. The search for laser cooling with ED-allowed transitions has been an active field of research over the past decades with a wide variety of materials having been studied. This paper reviews the fundamentals of solid-state laser cooling, provides a preliminary theoretical assessment showing that laser-cooling with ED-allowed transitions is in principle possible, and reviews the experimental results reported to date. While cooling with ED-allowed transitions has not yet been realized in the solid state, the existing experimental body of work along with the theoretical considerations presented here suggest that further research on this topic may be fruitful.},
doi = {10.1016/j.jlumin.2022.119270},
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year = {Tue Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
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