Abstract
We report a theoretical scheme for laser cooling of solids based on energy transfer usually found in rare-earth codoped materials. The cooling scheme enables a large enhancement in the cooling efficiency with regard to the standard anti-Stokes fluorescence cooling. A and -codoped low-phonon crystal () sample is investigated to find that the cooling efficiency increases, and then decreases with the increasing of the resonant absorption. The optimal cooling efficiency is predicted to exceed 5%. The maximum cooling power density could be promoted greatly by applying the codoped cooling scheme. The cooling scheme is also valid for other rare-earth (for example, and , or and ) codoped materials.
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