3rd Annual Workshop on

Laser Cooling of Solids

Friday,  April 16 ,  2004    9:00 am -3:00 pm

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

 

Location:

Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM)   MAP

                 

Conference Room (Rm. 101)

 

 Sponsored by UNM's Center for Advanced Studies (CAS)

 

 

 

 

 

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      Schedule of Presentations:                                                                

Time

Title/Event

Presenter

Presentation Slides

9:00-9:10

Welcome

Mansoor Sheik-Bahae

UNM

9:15-10:00

Progress on Laser Cooling of Rare-Earth Doped Solids

Richard Epstein

LANL

10:00-10:30

Demonstration of Intracavity Solid-State Laser Cooling

Bauke Heeg & Peter Debarber

MetroLaser

10:30-10:45

Break

 

 

 

10:45-11:30

Will Semiconductors Cool?

Mansoor Sheik-Bahae

UNM

11:30-12:00

Operation of a Laboratory Optical Refrigerator

Garry Mills & W. S. Good

Ball  Aerospace

12:00-1:30

Lunch (catered)

 

 

 

1:30-2:00

Electrical Upconversion for Semiconductor Refrigeration

Yong-Hang Zhang

Arizona State University

2:00-3:30

General Discussion

All

 

 

     

 

                                                Contact: M. Sheik-Bahae   msb@unm.edu  (505-277-2080)