Polarized thermal emission by thin metal wires

Abstract

We report new measurements of the linear polarization of thermal radiation emitted by incandescent thin tungsten wires, with thicknesses ranging from five to hundred microns. Our data show very good agreement with theoretical predictions, based on Drude-type fits to measured optical properties of tungsten.

12 pages, 4 encapsulated figures. This new version matches the one published in New. J. Phys.. Improved presentation, more references added, and one new figure included

Cited by in corpus (9)

• Losses in plasmonics: from mitigating energy dissipation to embracing loss-enabled functionalities
• Trace formulae for non-equilibrium Casimir interactions, heat radiation and heat transfer for arbitrary objects
• Non-equilibrium electromagnetic fluctuations: Heat transfer and interactions
• Non-equilibrium Fluctuational Quantum Electrodynamics: Heat Radiation, Heat Transfer, and Force
• Heat radiation from long cylindrical objects
• Heat meets light on the nanoscale
• Casimir forces between cylinders at different temperatures
• On the integral law of thermal radiation
• Heat radiation and transfer for nanoparticles in the presence of a cylinder