Circularly Polarized Thermal Radiation From Nonequilibrium Coupled Antennas

Khandekar, Chinmay; Jacob, Zubin

doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.12.014053

Title: Circularly Polarized Thermal Radiation From Nonequilibrium Coupled Antennas

Journal Article · Fri Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Physical Review Applied

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.12.014053· OSTI ID:1612746

Khandekar, Chinmay ^[1]; Jacob, Zubin ^[1]

Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

Circularly polarized light can be obtained by using either polarization conversion or structural chirality. Here we reveal a fundamentally unrelated mechanism of generating circularly polarized light using coupled nonequilibrium sources. We show that thermal emission from a compact dimer of subwavelength, anisotropic antennas can be highly circularly polarized when the antennas are at unequal temperatures. Furthermore, the handedness of emitted light is flipped upon interchanging the temperatures of the antennas, thereby enabling reconfigurability of the polarization state lacked by most circularly polarized light sources. Furthermore, we describe the fundamental origin of this mechanism using rigorous fluctuational electrodynamic analysis and further provide practical examples for its experimental implementation. Apart from the technology applications in reconfigurable devices, communication, and sensing, this work motivates new inquiries of angular-momentum-related thermal-radiation phenomena using thermal nonequilibrium, without applying magnetic field.

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Research Organization:: Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0017717

OSTI ID:: 1612746

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1562603

Journal Information:: Physical Review Applied, Vol. 12, Issue 1; ISSN 2331-7019

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Country of Publication:: United States

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