Laser-induced cooling

Optical cooling of solids is, in principle, more difficult than for gases, because the usual result of illumination is the generation of heat (phonons) and light. However, in 1995 R. 1. Epstein and co-workers observed for the first time laser-induced cooling... 

Fernandez, J., Mendioroz, A., Garct a, AJ., Baida, R., Adam, J.L., Arriandiaga, M.A., 2001b. On the origin of anti-Stokes laser-induced cooling of Yb -doped glass. Opt. Mater. 16 (1-2), 173-179. 

Garcia-Adeva, A.J., Baida, R., Fernandez, J., 2007. Recent advances in laser-induced cooling in rare-earth doped low phonon materials. Proc. SPIE 6469, 64690F-64691F. 

This chapter deals mainly with (multi)hyphenated techniques comprising wet sample preparation steps (e.g. SFE, SPE) and/or separation techniques (GC, SFC, HPLC, SEC, TLC, CE). Other hyphenated techniques involve thermal-spectroscopic and gas or heat extraction methods (TG, TD, HS, Py, LD, etc.). Also, spectroscopic couplings (e.g. LIBS-LIF) are of interest. Hyphenation of UV spectroscopy and mass spectrometry forms the family of laser mass-spectrometric (LAMS) methods, such as REMPI-ToFMS and MALDI-ToFMS. In REMPI-ToFMS the connecting element between UV spectroscopy and mass spectrometry is laser-induced REMPI ionisation. An intermediate state of the molecule of interest is selectively excited by absorption of a laser photon (the wavelength of a tuneable laser is set in resonance with the transition). The excited molecules are subsequently ionised by absorption of an additional laser photon. Therefore the ionisation selectivity is introduced by the resonance absorption of the first photon, i.e. by UV spectroscopy. However, conventional UV spectra of polyatomic molecules exhibit relatively broad and continuous spectral features, allowing only a medium selectivity. Supersonic jet cooling of the sample molecules (to 5-50 K) reduces the line width of their... 

Kim NJ, Jeong G, Kim YS, Sung J, Kim SK, Park YD (2000) Resonant two-photon ionization and laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy of jet-cooled adenine. J Chem Phys 113 10051... 

In order to record excitation spectra, the radical ions must first be thermalized to the electronic ground state, which happens automatically if they are created in condensed phase (e.g. in noble-gas matrices, see below). In the gas-phase experiments where ionization is effected by collision with excited argon atoms (Penning ionization), the unexcited argon atoms serve as a heat bath which may even be cooled to 77 K if desired. After thermalization, excitation spectra may be obtained by laser-induced fluorescence. 

Using the same PAbs an optical biosensor system has been developed for 2,4,6-TCP [224]. The principle is the detection of laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) in single microdroplets by a homogeneous quenching fluorescence immunoassay (QFIA). The competitive immunoassay occurs in microdroplets (d=58.4 mm) produced by a piezoelectric generator system. A continuous Ar ion laser (488 nm) excites the fluorescent tracer and its fluorescence is detected by a spectrometer attached to a cooled, charge-coupled device (CCD) camera... 

Finally, in the last section of this chapter (Section 6.6), we will treat two aspects that are of great relevance in the optical spectroscopy of solids. First, we will introduce a semi-empirical method (due to Judd, 1962 Ofelt,1962) that analyzes the absorption spectra of trivalent rare earth ions in crystals to search for new efficient phosphors and solid state lasers. Secondly, we will treat a relatively new topic related to optical centers in solids the optically induced cooling of trivalent ytterbium doped solids. 

LDH LEU LIBD LAW LET LILW LIP LLNL LLW LMA LMFBR LOI LREE L/S LTA LWR Layered double hydroxide Low enriched uranium Laser-induced breakdown detection Low-activity waste Linear energy transfer Low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste Lead-iron phosphate Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Low-level nuclear waste Law of mass action Liquid-metal-cooled fast-breeder reactor Loss on ignition Light rare earth elements (La-Sm) Liquid-to-solid ratio (leachates) Low-temperature ashing Light water reactor... 

Figure 2. The laser-induced fluorescence excitation spectrum of C,0(Asn( — %3T) recorded under nascent conditions (top) immediately following photolysis of C3Oj and after cooling by a buffer gas...

The jet-cooled species can be studied using standard laser techniques (Figure 13-4a) like laser-induced fluorescence (LIF or fluorescence excitation spectroscopy) or R2PI, as well as using their sophisticated double-resonance variants, like UV/UV or IR/UV double resonance spectroscopy (Figure 13-4b and 4c), to investigate molecules or clusters existing under various isomeric forms... 

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