Photonics: a cooling light breeze

Photonics: a cooling light breeze

Mirrors confine light, and light exerts pressure on mirrors. The combination of these effects can be exploited to cool tiny, flexible mirrors to low temperatures purely through the influence of incident light. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 2006-11, Vol.444 (7115), p.41-42
1. Verfasser: Karrai, Khaled
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Cooling
Light
Low temperature
Miniaturization
Mirrors
Physics
Temperature effects
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Zusammenfassung:Mirrors confine light, and light exerts pressure on mirrors. The combination of these effects can be exploited to cool tiny, flexible mirrors to low temperatures purely through the influence of incident light. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/444041a