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JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 165-172Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.30.000165
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- JST
- CREST
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Kyoto University Global Center of Excellence (G-COE)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [11F01365, 23360033] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We design efficient thermal emitters based on intersubband transitions (ISB-Ts) in quantum wells and two-dimensional photonic crystal (PC) slabs that have single-mode, very narrowband emission with high emissivity. Our design strategy involves positioning a single isolated mode of the PC within the absorption range of the ISB-T, where the mode's radiation rate is precisely matched with the absorption rate of the ISB-T. The optimized design for this class of thermal emitters has a single-peak emission with a quality factor of similar to 600, an emissivity of similar to 0.9, and a radiation divergence cone of similar to 20 degrees, surpassing, by a large margin, the performance of previous designs. We also demonstrate, for practical application purposes, that the required input power for our best-performing emitter to reach a given temperature threshold is less than a factor of 200 compared to that of a blackbody. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America
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