Laser Cooling

Family of techniques that cool atoms, molecules, and small mechanical systems with laser light — recognized by the 1997 Nobel Prize.

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Laser cooling includes several techniques where atoms, molecules, and small mechanical systems are cooled with laser light.
Its development was recognized by the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, and William Phillips.
Techniques range from Doppler cooling and optical molasses to sub-Doppler schemes such as Sisyphus cooling.