Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity
Light selection based purely on the angle of propagation is a long-standing scientific challenge. In angularly selective systems, however, the transmission of light usually also depends on the light frequency. We tailored the overlap of the band gaps of multiple one-dimensional photonic crystals, ea...
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| author | Shen, Yichen Ye, Dexin Soljacic, Marin Celanovic, Ivan L. Johnson, Steven G Joannopoulos, John |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies |
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| description | Light selection based purely on the angle of propagation is a long-standing scientific challenge. In angularly selective systems, however, the transmission of light usually also depends on the light frequency. We tailored the overlap of the band gaps of multiple one-dimensional photonic crystals, each with a different periodicity, in such a way as to preserve the characteristic Brewster modes across a broadband spectrum. We provide theory as well as an experimental realization with an all–visible spectrum, p-polarized angularly selective material system. Our method enables transparency throughout the visible spectrum at one angle—the generalized Brewster angle—and reflection at every other viewing angle. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/885052024-03-19T02:13:56Z Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity Shen, Yichen Ye, Dexin Soljacic, Marin Celanovic, Ivan L. Johnson, Steven G Joannopoulos, John Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Shen, Yichen Celanovic, Ivan Johnson, Steven G. Joannopoulos, John D. Soljacic, Marin Light selection based purely on the angle of propagation is a long-standing scientific challenge. In angularly selective systems, however, the transmission of light usually also depends on the light frequency. We tailored the overlap of the band gaps of multiple one-dimensional photonic crystals, each with a different periodicity, in such a way as to preserve the characteristic Brewster modes across a broadband spectrum. We provide theory as well as an experimental realization with an all–visible spectrum, p-polarized angularly selective material system. Our method enables transparency throughout the visible spectrum at one angle—the generalized Brewster angle—and reflection at every other viewing angle. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (Contract W911NF-13-D0001) United States. Dept. of Energy. Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (Grant DE-SC0001299) 2014-07-28T14:19:49Z 2014-07-28T14:19:49Z 2014-03 2013-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0036-8075 1095-9203 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88505 Shen, Y., D. Ye, I. Celanovic, S. G. Johnson, J. D. Joannopoulos, and M. Soljacic. “Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity.” Science 343, no. 6178 (March 28, 2014): 1499–1501. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-4967 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7184-5831 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7244-3682 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7512-3756 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1249799 Science Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Shen, Yichen Ye, Dexin Soljacic, Marin Celanovic, Ivan L. Johnson, Steven G Joannopoulos, John Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity |
| title | Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity |
| title_full | Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity |
| title_fullStr | Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity |
| title_short | Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity |
| title_sort | optical broadband angular selectivity |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88505 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-4967 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7184-5831 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7244-3682 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7512-3756 |
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