title: Observation of anti-stokes fluorescence cooling in thulium-doped glass
abstract: We report the first observation of anti-Stokes fluorescence cooling in a thulium-doped solid with pump excitation at 1.82 &mgr;m<lambda<1.97 &mgr;m. At a pump wavelength of 1.9 &mgr;m and incident average power of approximately 3 W, a Tm3+:ZBLANP ( ZrF4-BaF2-LaF3-AlF3-NaF-PbF2) sample cooled to -1.2 degrees C from room temperature for a single pass of the pump beam. This corresponds to an absorbed pump power of approximately 40 mW and a peak temperature change per absorbed power of approximately -30 degrees C/W from room temperature.
authors.affiliation: Optical Sciences and Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA.
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Hoyt
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sheik-Bahae
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Epstein
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Anderson