Title :
Observation of Brillouin cooling
Author :
Bahl, Gaurav ; Tomes, Matthew ; Marquardt, Florian ; Carmon, Tal
Author_Institution :
Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate the energy-reversed counterpart to Brillouin lasers, resulting in the cooling of Brownian surface-acoustic-wave whispering-gallery resonances by light in a silica microsphere resonator.
Keywords :
laser cooling; whispering gallery modes; Brillouin cooling; Brillouin lasers; Brownian surface-acoustic-wave whispering-gallery resonances; energy-reversed counterpart; silica microsphere resonator; Cooling; Optical fibers; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Phonons; Scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
