An In-situ and Direct Confirmation of Super-Planckian Thermal Radiation Emitted From a Metallic Photonic-Crystal at Optical Wavelengths

Lin, Shawn-Yu; Hsieh, Mei-Li; John, Sajeev; Frey, B.; Bur, James A.; Luk, Ting-Shan; Wang, Xuanjie; Narayanan, Shankar

doi:10.1038/s41598-020-62063-2

An In-situ and Direct Confirmation of Super-Planckian Thermal Radiation Emitted From a Metallic Photonic-Crystal at Optical Wavelengths

Journal Article · Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62063-2· OSTI ID:1628993

Lin, Shawn-Yu ^[1]; Hsieh, Mei-Li ^[2]; John, Sajeev ^[3]; Frey, B. ^[4]; Bur, James A. ^[4]; Luk, Ting-Shan ^[5]; Wang, Xuanjie ^[6]; Narayanan, Shankar ^[6]

Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy; DOE/OSTI
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy; National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan). Dept. of Photonics
Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada). Dept. of Physics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States). CINT
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States). Dept. of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering

Planck’s law predicts the distribution of radiation energy, color and intensity, emitted from a hot object at thermal equilibrium. The Law also sets the upper limit of radiation intensity, the blackbody limit. Recent experiments reveal that micro-structured tungsten can exhibit significant deviation from the blackbody spectrum. However, whether thermal radiation with weak non-equilibrium pumping can exceed the blackbody limit in the far field remains un-answered experimentally. Here, we compare thermal radiation from a micro-cavity/tungsten photonic crystal (W-PC) and a blackbody, which are both measured from the same sample and also in-situ. We show that thermal radiation can exceed the blackbody limit by >8 times at λ=1.7 μm resonant wavelength in the far-field. Our observation is consistent with a recent calculation by Wang and John performed for a 2D W-PC filament. This finding is attributed to non-equilibrium excitation of localized surface plasmon resonances coupled to nonlinear oscillators and the propagation of the electromagnetic waves through non-linear Bloch waves of the W-PC structure. This discovery could help create super-intense narrow band thermal light sources and even an infrared emitter with a laser-like input-output characteristic.

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Research Organization:: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States); Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000; FG02-06ER46347

OSTI ID:: 1628993

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1770356

Report Number(s):: SAND--2021-2366J; PII: 62063

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Journal Name: Scientific Reports Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 10; ISSN 2045-2322

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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