Title :
Coherent control of thermal emission from SiC due to coupled resonant cavity structure
Author :
Dahan, Nir ; Niv, Avi ; Biener, Gabriel ; Gorodetski, Yuri ; Kleiner, Vladimir ; Hasman, Erez
Author_Institution :
Micro & Nano-optics Lab., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa
Abstract :
Coherent thermal emission from an anisotropic microstructure upon SiC is presented. The enhanced coherency is due to coupled resonant cavities supported by surface phonon-polaritons. A quality-factor 600 and an angular divergence of 1.4 mrad are obtained.
Keywords :
Q-factor; emissivity; optical resonators; polaritons; silicon compounds; surface phonons; wide band gap semiconductors; SiC; anisotropic microstructure; coherent control; coupled resonant cavity; enhanced coherency; quality factor; surface phonon-polaritons; thermal emission; Cyclic redundancy check; Gratings; Optical resonators; Optical surface waves; Resonance; Resonant frequency; Silicon carbide; Surface morphology; Surface waves; Thermal engineering; (230.5750) Resonators; (290.6815) Thermal emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
