Laser Cooling of Solids

The book deals with one of the promising

and interesting directions of laser physics -

laser cooling of solids. The history of research

in this direction is described briefly and the

results of experiments with laser cooling of

condensed media are discussed. Special

attention is given to the physics of cooling

processes and mathematical description of

these processes. Problems of construction of

self-cooling solid-state laser and echoprocessors

are investigated. One of the

chapters is concerned with magnetic cooling,

spin locking and photon locking, and also

methods of reducing the uniform width of

spectral lines of information carriers of

optical echo-processors. Problems of optical

cooling of solid-state quantum processors are

also discussed.