Spectrally Sharp Near-Field Thermal Emission: Revealing Some Disagreements between a Casimir-Polder Sensor and Predictions from Far-Field Emittance

Abstract

Near-field thermal emission largely exceed blackbody radiation, owing to spectrally sharp emission in surface polaritons. We turn Casimir-Polder interaction between Cs(7P1/2) and a sapphire interface, into a sensor sharply filtering, at 24.687 THz, the near-field sapphire emission at ~ 24.5 THz. Temperature evolution of sapphire mode is demonstrated. The Cs sensor, sensitive to both dispersion and dissipation, suggests the polariton to be red-shifted and sharper, as compared, up to 1100 K, to predictions from far-field sapphire emission, affected by birefringence and multiple resonances.

arXiv commentAccepted (Aug 1, 2023) for publication in Physical Review Letters... The Supplematry Material (ref 62) appears at the end of the single document

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