Ultra-narrowband and rainbow-free mid-infrared thermal emitters enabled by a flat band design in distorted photonic lattices.

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Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Devices, Center of Light Manipulation and Applications, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250358, China.

Published: May 2024

Most reported thermal emitters to date employing photonic nanostructures to achieve narrow bandwidth feature the rainbow effect due to the steep dispersion of the involved high-Q resonances. In this work, we propose to realize thermal emissions with high temporal coherence but free from rainbow effect, by harnessing a novel flat band design within a large range of wavevectors. This feature is achieved by introducing geometric perturbations into a square lattice of high-index disks to double the period along one direction. As a result of the first Brillouin zone halving, the guided modes will be folded to the Γ point and interact with originally existing guided-mode resonances to form a flat band of dispersion with overall high Q. Despite the use of evaporated amorphous materials, we experimentally demonstrate a thermal emission with the linewidth of 23 nm at 5.144 μm within a wide range of output angles (from -17.5° to 17.5°).

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