Laser cooling of solids. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: S.V. Petrushkin and V.V. Samartsev, authors.
• Other Names: Petrushkin, S. V; Samartsev, V. V
• Contents: Cover; Laser Cooling of Solids; Copyright; Contents; About the authors; Preface to the English edition; Introduction; Chapter 1 Thermodynamic fundamentals of fluorescent cooling; 1.1. Luminescence; 1.2. Radiation entropy; 1.3. Electroluminescence; 1.4. Photoluminescence; 1.5. The paradigm of anti-Stokes cooling; Chapter 2 Theory of laser cooling; 2.1. Main types of kinetic equations; 2.2. The method of hierarchy of Bogolyubov kinetic equations; 2.3. Elementary theory of anti-Stokes fluorescence; 2.4. Laser cooling of impurity solids; 2.5. Superradiance cooling regime; 2.6. Peltier phenomenon. Chapter 3 Experimental investigations and fundamental restrictions3.1. Los-Alamos experiment; 3.2. Development of a solid-state laser refrigerator; 3.3. Generalised refrigerator; 3.4. Minimum temperature; 3.5. Maximum cooling power; Chapter 4 Self-cooling of active elements of solid-state lasers; 4.1. Radiation-balanced laser; 4.2. Two-impurity laser; Chapter 5 Laser cooling of solid-state information media of optical echo-processors; 5.1. Magnetic cooling; 5.2 Spin locking; 5.3. Photon locking. 5.4. Narrowing of the uniform width of spectral lines by means of multi-pulse sequences for improving the functioning of echo processors5.5. Possibilities of constructing a self-cooling optical processor; Chapter 6 Problems of cooling solid-state quantum processors; 6.1. From classic optical processors to quantum processors; 6.2. Processors functioning on the basis of utilising polarisation states of biphotons; 6.3. Solid-state optical quantum echo processors; 6.4. Multilevel solid-state quantum processors; 6.5. Laser cooling of a semiconductor NMR-quantum computer; Conclusions; Appendix.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge, England : Cambridge International Science Publishing Limited
• Publication Date: 2009
• Copyright Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (237 pages), illustrations, tables
• Subjects: 539.7; Laser manipulation (Nuclear physics); Solids -- Cooling; Laser cooling; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845696832; 1845696832
• Related ISBNs: 9781845696320
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 7, 2014).
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