Laser-induced anti-Stokes fluorescence cooling of ytterbium-doped silica glass by more than 6 Kelvin

Mostafa Peysokhan, Saeid Rostami, Esmaeil Mobini +12

Laser cooling of a solid is achieved when a coherent laser illuminates the material, and the heat is extracted by resulting anti-Stokes fluorescence. Over the past year, net solid-…