Cooling or heating of gases through energy transfer using lasers
Abstract
A scheme for cooling or heating of gases using laser radiation is proposed. The scheme consists of pumping an excited state of an atom/molecule followed by near resonant energy transfer to another atom/molecule which then radiates at higher or lower frequencies.
- Publication:
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Optics Communications
- Pub Date:
- August 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0030-4018(82)90278-4
- Bibcode:
- 1982OptCo..42..417G
- Keywords:
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- Energy Transfer;
- Gas Cooling;
- Gas Heating;
- Laser Heating;
- Laser Pumping;
- Atomic Excitations;
- Molecular Excitation;
- Optical Resonance;
- Spontaneous Emission;
- Lasers and Masers