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  • Photonics and Nanotechnology
  • Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering

Background:

  • Conventional light manipulation struggles with incoherent thermal sources.
  • Existing thermophotonics offer directional emission but lack arbitrary wavefront control.
  • Controlling thermal wavefronts is crucial for advanced applications like focusing and holography.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a generalized method for designing meta-emitters enabling arbitrary thermal wavefront control.
  • To overcome the inherent conflict between coherent light-field techniques and incoherent thermal radiation.
  • To enable functionalities like thermal focusing and holography using tailored thermal emission.

Main Methods:

  • Designing meta-emitters with coupled lossy and lossless outer boundaries.
  • Utilizing a single-mode waveguide to couple surfaces and convert incoherent thermal photons to coherent surface waves.
  • Independently optimizing photon lifetime and propagation length via designer surface modes for spatial coherence engineering.

Main Results:

  • Experimental demonstration of near-diffraction-limited self-focusing thermal emission.
  • Creation of quasi-2D high-quality thermal holography without speckle noise.
  • Achieved spatial-multiplexed holography and suggested potential for spatial coherence exceeding 1000λ₀.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed meta-emitter design provides a paradigm shift for integrating thermodynamic emission with photonic engineering.
  • This work opens new avenues for developing information-rich thermal radiation technologies.
  • The ability to engineer thermal wavefronts paves the way for advanced optical functionalities from thermal sources.