Laser cooling and optical refrigeration are innovative techniques that utilize light to reduce the temperature of materials, often to levels that are difficult to achieve with traditional cooling ...
The idea of cooling a solid-state optical material by simply shining a laser beam onto it may seem counterintuitive, but this is rapidly becoming a promising technology for future cryocoolers.
More information: L. T. Glöggler et al, Positronium Laser Cooling via the 13S−23P Transition with a Broadband Laser Pulse, Physical Review Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.083402 ...