Re: Detection vs Identification

From: "Brian Quirt" <baqrt@mta.ca>
> First, what IS a "coolant laser?" I've never encountered that term,
and
> I have NO idea what it could be.

http://www.optitemp.com/optitemp.htm
Shows them in use as Water coolers (!)

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/lascool1.html
has data about using lasers to produce subzero Kelvin (WHAT!)
temperatures
but that's about individual atoms and bosons.

Basically, it's a way of inneficiently transferring energy away from a
system
by sending it out as photons. It's directional radiation, in any amount
required,
by stimulated emission. Heat in->photons out. You can take the
temperature
of any object down to whatever level you like, given enough work to
transfer
the heat.