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Photon pumping in Laser
Let's consider a ring laser where the laser must pass through the gain material before it is sent toward a partially reflective surface $\ R=1-T $. The other mirrors are perfect reflectors with $\ ...
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Optical element is heated by laser: is it possible to get oscillating heat distribution?
Imagine that we have thin optical element, which is irradiated by laser. Laser heats element, so there is some heat distribution in element. There is a heat sink through upper and lower element faces ...
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Why are lasers inefficient?
Why are lasers inefficient? Is it because of the heat lost during lasing? Why couldn't there be thermocouples or turbines in parts of the cooling circuits to extract something out of that heat?
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Maxwell's Demon - laser cooling
There’s an interesting article on Scientific American
that tells how to cool individual atoms can bee cooled to within a very tiny fraction of Absolute Zero.
It uses two laser beams acting on a very ...
