• DocumentCode
    2794213
  • Title

    Enhanced coherent thermal emission of coupled resonant cavities due to surface phonon-polariton excitation

  • Author

    Hasman, Erez ; Dahan, Nir ; Kleiner, Vladimir ; Niv, Avi ; Biener, Gabriel ; Gorodetski, Yuri

  • Author_Institution
    Optical Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We experimentally show a quasi-monochromatic and directional thermal source with a spatial coherence length in the far-field that is much larger than the predicted limit related to the surface phonon-polariton coherence of a flat surface.
  • Keywords
    Amorphous materials; Gratings; Optical surface waves; Polarization; Resonance; Spatial coherence; Stimulated emission; Surface morphology; Surface waves; Thermal engineering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2007.4431750
  • Filename
    4431750