Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Laser cooling is an important emerging technology in such areas as the cooling of semiconductors. The book examines and suggests solutions for a range of problems in the development of miniature solid-state laser refrigerators, self-cooling solid-state lasers and optical echo-processors. It begins by looking at the basic theory of laser cooling before considering such topics as self-cooling of active elements of solid-state lasers, laser cooling of solid-state information media of optical echo-processors, and problems of cooling solid-state quantum processors. Laser Cooling of Solids is an important contribution to the development of compact laser-powered cryogenic refrigerators, both for the academic community and those in the microelectronics and other industries. Provides a timely review of this promising field of research and discusses the fundamentals and theory of laser coolingParticular attention is given to the physics of cooling processes and the mathematical description of these processesReviews previous experimental investigations in laser cooling and presents progress towards key potential applications.

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.

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