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Departmental News

Posted:  Apr 01, 2010 - 12:00am

Graduate students Seth Melgaard (left) and Denis Seletskiy (right), members of Mansoor Sheik-Bahae’s research group at the University of New Mexico, are conducting a spectroscopic study of cooling efficiency of the ytterbium-doped YLF crystal. Photo courtesy of Mansoor Sheik-Bahae.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – All-solid-state laser cooling, or “optical refrigeration,” a technique that can be applied to airborne and space-borne sensors, has been demonstrated by a team at the University of New Mexico under the direction of Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, a professor in the physics and astronomy department.

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