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Tunable narrow-band infrared emitters from hexagonal lattices
Authors:I. El-Kady   R. Biswas   Y. Ye   M. F. Su   I. Puscasu   Martin Pralle   E. A. Johnson   J. Daly  A. Greenwald
Affiliation:

a Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ames Laboratory and Microelectronics Research Center, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA

b Sandia National Laboratories, Photonic Microsystems Technologies, P.O. Box 5800, MS 0603, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA

c Ion Optics, Inc., Waltham, MA 02452, USA

Abstract:In this work, we present both the theoretical basis as well as supporting experimental measurements for development of a novel mid-infrared thermally stimulated narrow band emitter with a spectral bandwidth of less than 10%. To achieve this, we utilize a metallized-surface 2D photonic crystal of air voids in a silicon background with hexagonal structure symmetry. Our results are based on the generation of discrete surface plasmon (SP) modes in the thin metallized layer residing on the top surface. This yields a series of adequately spaced discrete peaks in the reflection spectrum, dominated by a single sharp feature corresponding to the lowest plasmon order, in an otherwise uniform highly reflective spectrum (>90%) over most of the IR spectrum. This, in turn, gives rise to a sharp absorption feature with a correspondingly narrow thermal emission peak in the emission spectrum. Transfer matrix calculations simulate well both the position and strengths of the absorption peaks. By altering the period of the surface photonic lattice, the SP peak and emissive band can be tuned to the desired wavelength. These devices promise a new class of tunable infrared emitters with high power in a narrow spectral bandwidth. Such narrow band sources are critical to achieving high efficiency gas sensors.
Keywords:Infrared emitters   Spectral bandwidth   Surface plasmon modes   Infrared gas sensors
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