Both proposals outlined the simplest laser cooling process, known as Doppler cooling, where laser light tuned below an atom's resonant frequency is preferentially absorbed by atoms moving towards the laser and after absorption a photon is emitted in a random direction.OverviewLaser cooling includes several techniques where,, and small mechanical systems are cooled with light. The directed energy of lasers is often associated with heating materials, e.g.,. is the force that electromagnetic radiation exerts on matter. In 1873, published his treatise on in which he predicted radiation pressure. The force was experiment. The first realization of laser cooling and the most ubiquitous method for cooling atoms and molecules (so much so that it is often referred to simply as 'laser cooling'), is. Doppler co.