Can Laser Light Cool Semiconductors?
- 18 June 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 92 (24), 247403
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.92.247403
Abstract
Laser cooling in semiconductors is theoretically investigated including arbitrary external efficiency and photon recycling. Experimental conditions needed to attain net cooling in GaAs are derived.Keywords
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