Coherent emission of light using stacked gratings

Yongkang Gong, Xianliang Liu, Kang Li, Jungang Huang, J. J. Martinez, Daniel Rees-Whippey, Sara Carver, Leiran Wang, Wenfu Zhang, Tao Duan, Nigel Copner

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Abstract

The possibility of temporally and spatially coherent thermal emission has been demonstrated utilizing stacked gratings. We demonstrate that the metallic grating with narrow air slit behaves like a homogeneous slab with large permittivity and small permeability and find that the interaction between the metallic grating and the Bragg grating gives rise to impendence matching at wavelengths located in the photonic band gap of the Bragg grating, which enables the stacked gratings to perform high emission with ultranarrow spectrum and antenna-like spatial response. This paves the way towards the design of a novel infrared source platform for applications such as thermal analysis, imaging, security, biosensing, and medical diagnoses.

Original languageEnglish
Article number205121
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume87
Issue number20
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 May 2013
Externally publishedYes

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