Cooling membranes with a laser (IMAGE)

University of Basel

Cooling membranes with a laser

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In the Basel experiment, a laser beam is directed onto a membrane (square in the middle). Using the reflected laser light, delayed by a fibre optic cable (violet), the membrane is then cooled down to less than a thousandth of a degree above absolute zero.

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University of Basel, Department of Physics

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