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Optical refrigerator
Laser cooling requires ultrapure fluoride glass (top), and the Los Alamos team is building a fabrication facility to guarantee its own supply. A schematic and real-life image of the optical refrigerator (middle and bottom right). An energy-level diagram showing the underlying physics (bottom left). Images: LANL.
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