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December 8-12, 2014
UNM lab becomes world’s coolest
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`By Lauren Topper As winter approaches and the semester winds down, students and faculty alike may be turning their attention to things such as hot chocolate and warm sweaters. But one lab on campus is trying to make things colder — much colder. Using crystals and lasers, a team of scientists headed by Department of Physics and Astronomy professor Mansoor Sheik-Bahae has developed and is currently finetuning a novel method known as optical refrigeration for cooling solids to extremely low temperatures. “It is fair to say that our team is the leader in terms of achieving the lowest temperature and advancing this science into a practical technology,” Sheik-Bahae said. The system works through the transfer of energy in the form of either heat or light. To reach these extreme temperatures, a highpowered laser of a very specific color, or wavelength, is directed into a crystal, which absorbs the laser light and fluoresces. In other
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Saeid Rostami, graduate student in Optical Science and Engineering, works with a system of lasers in the Physics Lab on Friday afternoon. Rostami is one of the students working with Department of Physics and Astronomy professor Mansoor Sheik-Bahae to develop a new method of optical refrigeration to cool solids to extreme low temperatures.
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