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laser cooling: a standalone construct

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Quantum optics

slowing atoms with laser light tuned just below resonance so they preferentially absorb photons that oppose their motion.

In quantum optics, laser cooling refers to slowing atoms with laser light tuned just below resonance so they preferentially absorb photons that oppose their motion. This meaning comes from Hänsch (1975) in Optics Communications.[1]

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Hänsch, T. W., & Schawlow, A. L. (1975). Cooling of gases by laser radiation. Optics Communications, 13(1), 68-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-4018(75)90159-5

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