TY - GEN
T1 - Thermal Radiation Engineering Via Quantum Nonlinear Mixing of Photons
AU - Khandekar, C.
AU - Yang, L.
AU - Rodriguez, A. W.
AU - Jacob, Z.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge funding from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (N66001-17-1-4048, HR00111820046); Purdue University (Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellowship Program); National Science Foundation (DMR-1454836); Cornell Center for Materials Research (DMR1719875).
PY - 2020/9/27
Y1 - 2020/9/27
N2 - We show that the nonlinear mixing of thermally generated photons in a resonant system can be used to overcome the fundamental blackbody limit on thermal emission, and to introduce nontrivial statistics (g^{(2)}\, 6 =2) and biphoton intensity correlations at two distinct frequencies in the emission spectrum. These effects can be observed by heating a properly designed photonic system without using any external signal. Our work goes beyond all investigations of thermal radiation phenomena involving materials exhibiting linear response, into the nonlinear regime where fundamental questions related to thermal equilibrium and detailed balance require careful analysis. It motivates new interdisciplinary inquiries combining the fields of nonlinear photonics, quantum optics and thermal science.
AB - We show that the nonlinear mixing of thermally generated photons in a resonant system can be used to overcome the fundamental blackbody limit on thermal emission, and to introduce nontrivial statistics (g^{(2)}\, 6 =2) and biphoton intensity correlations at two distinct frequencies in the emission spectrum. These effects can be observed by heating a properly designed photonic system without using any external signal. Our work goes beyond all investigations of thermal radiation phenomena involving materials exhibiting linear response, into the nonlinear regime where fundamental questions related to thermal equilibrium and detailed balance require careful analysis. It motivates new interdisciplinary inquiries combining the fields of nonlinear photonics, quantum optics and thermal science.
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U2 - 10.1109/Metamaterials49557.2020.9285043
DO - 10.1109/Metamaterials49557.2020.9285043
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85099299055
T3 - 2020 14th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena, Metamaterials 2020
SP - 115
EP - 117
BT - 2020 14th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena, Metamaterials 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 14th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena, Metamaterials 2020
Y2 - 27 September 2020 through 3 October 2020
ER -