Thermal emission from a metamaterial wire medium slab

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G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, A. Alù, C. Argyropoulos, J.V. Foreman, and M.J. Bloemer, "Thermal emission from a metamaterial wire medium slab," Opt. Express 20, 9784-9789 (2012), https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.009784

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We investigate thermal emission from a metamaterial wire medium embedded in a dielectric host and highlight two different regimes for efficient emission, respectively characterized by broadband emission near the effective plasma frequency of the metamaterial, and by narrow-band resonant emission at the band-edge in the Bragg scattering regime. We discuss how to control the spectral position and relative strength of these two emission mechanisms by varying the geometrical parameters of the proposed metamaterial and its temperature.