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

Abstract

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.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [1];  [4];  [5];  [5]
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  1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy
  2. Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy; National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan). Dept. of Photonics
  3. Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada). Dept. of Physics
  4. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States). CINT
  5. Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States). Dept. of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
OSTI Identifier:
1628993
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1770356
Report Number(s):
SAND-2021-2366J
Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322; PII: 62063; TRN: US2200583
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-06ER46347; AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Materials science; Optics and photonics; Physics

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Lin, Shawn-Yu, Hsieh, Mei-Li, John, Sajeev, Frey, B., Bur, James A., Luk, Ting-Shan, Wang, Xuanjie, and Narayanan, Shankar. An In-situ and Direct Confirmation of Super-Planckian Thermal Radiation Emitted From a Metallic Photonic-Crystal at Optical Wavelengths. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-62063-2.
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Lin, Shawn-Yu, Hsieh, Mei-Li, John, Sajeev, Frey, B., Bur, James A., Luk, Ting-Shan, Wang, Xuanjie, & Narayanan, Shankar. An In-situ and Direct Confirmation of Super-Planckian Thermal Radiation Emitted From a Metallic Photonic-Crystal at Optical Wavelengths. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62063-2
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Lin, Shawn-Yu, Hsieh, Mei-Li, John, Sajeev, Frey, B., Bur, James A., Luk, Ting-Shan, Wang, Xuanjie, and Narayanan, Shankar. Mon . "An In-situ and Direct Confirmation of Super-Planckian Thermal Radiation Emitted From a Metallic Photonic-Crystal at Optical Wavelengths". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62063-2. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1628993.
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@article{osti_1628993,
title = {An In-situ and Direct Confirmation of Super-Planckian Thermal Radiation Emitted From a Metallic Photonic-Crystal at Optical Wavelengths},
author = {Lin, Shawn-Yu and Hsieh, Mei-Li and John, Sajeev and Frey, B. and Bur, James A. and Luk, Ting-Shan and Wang, Xuanjie and Narayanan, Shankar},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-020-62063-2},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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