Mirror-mediated cooling of atoms and nanostructures.
Dr Tim Freegarde (University of Southampton School of Physics and Astronomy)

All optical cooling mechanisms depend upon some form of memory; in mirror-mediated cooling, this is provided by the passage of an optical field to and from a single mirror. This intuitive 'prototype' of cavity-mediated cooling offers fundamental insights which in turn suggest alternative implementations and enhancements as well as links to other optical cooling mechanisms. By removing the cooled atom or particle from within an optical cavity, mirror-mediated cooling offers experimental flexibility and the alternative paradigm of the extremely bad cavity limit.