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Extreme Nonreciprocal Near-Field Thermal Radiation via Floquet Photonics

Lucas J. Fernández-Alcázar1, Rodion Kononchuk1, Huanan Li2, and Tsampikos Kottos1

  • 1Wave Transport in Complex Systems Lab, Department of Physics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06459, USA
  • 2Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY, New York, New York 10031, USA

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 204101 – Published 21 May, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.204101

Abstract

By using Floquet driving protocols and interlacing them with a judicious reservoir emission engineering, we achieve extreme nonreciprocal thermal radiation. We show that the latter is rooted in an interplay between a direct radiation process occurring due to temperature bias between two thermal baths and the modulation process that is responsible for pumped radiation heat. Our theoretical results are confirmed via time-domain simulations with photonic and rf circuits.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 204101– Published 21 May, 2021
  • Received 13 June 2020
  • Accepted 15 April 2021
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