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Photonic-Crystals In Military Systems

Energy Harvesting, Thermal Camouflage, & Directed Energy

Leo DiDomenico3

Hwang Lee1

Marian Florescu1

Irina Puscasu2

Jonathan Dowling1

1 Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University

2 Ion Optics Inc.

3 Xtreme Energetics Inc.

Points of Contact: Dr. Leo D. DiDomenico Leoddd@XEsolar.com & Prof. Jonathan P. Dowling jdowling@lsu.edu

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Contents

Introduction to Applications of Photonic Band Gap (PBG) Material

What is a Photonic Band Gap Material?

Generating Electricity from Spectral & Directional Control of IR Radiation

Controlling Thermal Radiation for IR Camouflage

Pumping Laser Weapons with Thermal Radiation from PBG Materials

Initial Experimental Studies On PBG Thermal radiation control

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Power Generation Systems:Low-Temperature

Thermophotovoltaics Problem

Solution

Applications

Performance Expectations

max max( )

( )out

in s

P V J V

P d bη

ω ω ω= =

∫ h

S. Lin et al. Sandia Labs

PBG

Optimize the input radiation band and propagation direction to a PV

& don’t worry too much about the PV itself!

TPV using PBG is relatively Low Temperature.

Conventional TPV Systems Too Hot

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Thermal Radiation Control Designs

Other Applications

Solution

Engineer the radiative thermal response

using photonic crystals to control: Spectral Directional Tunability

for adaptive thermal emissivity response.

Omnidirectional IR reflectors

Broadband systems

Multi Band Operation

PBG coatings with surface effects

Smart Skin Technology for Tanks

Tunable IR Camouflage Systems

Improved Thermal Imagers

Thermal Camouflage

Radar Signature Reduction

Low Observability and Stealth

Solar and Thermal Covers

ProblemThermal signatures have become too easy to

detect

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High-Power Photonic Crystal Lasers for Power Beaming

ProblemDefense against kinetic energy weapons requiresrepeated fast interception. Chemical lasers fail to

deliver the punch over an extended fight.

Solution

Applications

•High power thermally pumped PBG lasers

•Replace chemical laser

•Deep ammunition magazine

•Other -- Point-to-point laser comm.

Gas Dynamic lasers require energetic chemical reactions which limit

practical embodiments

Convert heat gradients into A flow of incoherent narrow band pump light for laser using PBG energy funnel.

Cold

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Contents

Introduction to Applications of Photonic Band Gap (PBG) Material

What is a Photonic Band Gap Material?

Generating Electricity from Spectral & Directional Control of IR Radiation

Controlling Thermal Radiation for IR Camouflage

Pumping Laser Weapons with Thermal Radiation from PBG Materials

Initial Experimental Studies On PBG Thermal radiation control

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Photonic Crystal Structures

•Periodic dielectric

•Scale of periodicity is ~/2.

•Exhibits large dielectric contrast.

•Light velocity is a function of direction.

•Temperature varies slowly relative to ~/2.

•Thermal radiation is selectively suppressed.

• “Semiconductor” material for Light

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Simple Photonic Crystals

Joannopoulos, Meade, Winn, Photonic Crystals (1995)

Alternating materials of higher & lower refractive indices

Periodicity: on the order of wavelength of light

Functionality: semiconductors for light

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3-Dimensional Photonic Crystals

The math can be very complexbut the basic idea is VERY SIMPLE...

Scattered waves can add destructivelyfor some frequencies and from somedirections…

Therefore, certain very special PBG structures have all directions of propagation forbidden over a band of frequencies.

3D Crystal Structure with scattering plans

shown

Each scattering site contributes to the total

Wave response.

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•TDOS measures the number of states {kx, ky, kz, n} that radiate.•TDOS is the number of states for a given dω about the frequency ω. •Opto-Thermal applications require extending the idea of TDOS.•The TDOS must be extended to account for the overlap of

The periodic dielectricThe Radiation field.Atoms with atomic transitions. Temperature distribution.

1D 2D

New Design Tools are Needed for Opto-Thermal Engineering with Photonic Crystals

The fields do not always overlap the dielectric whereatoms can absorb or emit energy & heat the material.

An extension of basic radiation theory, which now includes photon-phononinteractions inside a PBG material with a non-uniform temperature distribution, is being developed by the authors and with the intent of develop engineering software tools for opto-thermal PBG materials.

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Photonic Crystal Fiber

Opal

Inverted Opal

Woodpile

Butterfly Wing

Silicon Pillars

Photonic Crystals:Examples

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A Dizzying Array ofPotential Applications

Band Gap: Semiconductors for Light

Band-Gap Shift: Optical Switching & Routing

Local Field Enhancement:Strong Nonlinear Optical Effects

Anomalous Group Velocity Dispersion:Negative index metamaterials for stealth applications and super-prism dispersion, true time delay lines

Micro-cavity Effects: Photodetectors, LED

Low-Threshold Lasers

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Contents

Introduction to Applications of Photonic Band Gap (PBG) Material

What is a Photonic Band Gap Material?

Generating Electricity from Spectral & Directional Control of IR Radiation

Controlling Thermal Radiation for IR Camouflage

Pumping Laser Weapons with Thermal Radiation from PBG Materials

Initial Experimental Studies On PBG Thermal radiation control

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PV Cells Need a Matched SpectrumPV Cells Need a Matched Spectrum

Heat Generated!

Out of band energy from PV cell,creates waste heat but no electricity !

TPV Cell

There are 2 potential solutions Using Photonic Crystals …

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Rethermalization

Cold

Hot

Band GapLight Cone

RethermalizeOut of Band Energy

PhotonicCrystal

HeatSource

To TPV

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Thermal Radiation in PBG Material

RECALL:

•Spectral Intensity: position, direction, & frequency

•Absorptivity: T(r), direction, # of levels, & frequency

•Energy velocity depends on PCS

•Total density of atom-connected photon states

Photon-PhononInteraction in

Non-PBG

Now extend principles to a PBG material

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TPV Energy Conversion:PBG Spectral Control

SpectralFunnel

(Not a Filter)

TPV Cell Device

Broad BandHeat Source

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TPV Energy ConversionState-of-the-art

• Intermediate Absorber/Emitter

• Filter: Only the photons with right energy

• Keep operating temperatures lower

• Recycle: Heat the absorber with the

unused photons

Improve conversion efficiency: Recycling the unused photons to heat the Emitter/absorber

Incorporate PBG into a Classic TPV Design

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absorber cell

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Solid angle for absorber

Solid angle for the sun

Temp of the thermal source

Temp of absorber

Temp of the cell

1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

85%

Full concentration π=ΩS

TA = 2500 K

Method 2: TPV Energy Conversion:Using PBG Directional Control

Instead of increasing ΩS (concentration), decrease the solid angle of the intermediate absorber, ΩA.

T Kelvin

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Novel PBG Angle-Selective Absorber

Novel Design of an efficient angle-selective PBG absorber

• a wave-guide channel in 2D PBG embedded in a 3D PBG structure• single-mode (uni-directional) operation for a wide range of frequency• alternative structures can be designed to achieve a prescribed efficiency• LSU patent application

3D PBG

3D PBG

2D PBG1D Channel

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Funneling of the Thermal Radiation

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ω

Photonic crystal radiationPhotonic crystal radiation

Blackbody input radiationBlackbody input radiation

Filter output radiationFilter output radiation

Filter output radiationFilter output radiation

Blackbody input radiationBlackbody input radiation

ω

• For a given blackbody input power, T= 400 K (area under the red curve)– Filter

• only eliminates lower and higher spectral components, selecting incident radiation in a narrow range

• Appreciable amount of energy is wasted– Photonic crystal

• funnels the incident energy into a narrow spectral range• runs at a higher effective temperature (defined by the blackbody with the same maximum peak power)

ProposedCurrent

20 % Transfer efficiency5 % Transfer efficiency

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Contents

Introduction to Applications of Photonic Band Gap (PBG) Material

What is a Photonic Band Gap Material?

Generating Electricity from Spectral & Directional Control of IR Radiation

Controlling Thermal Radiation for IR Camouflage

Pumping Laser Weapons with Thermal Radiation from PBG Materials

Initial Experimental Studies On PBG Thermal radiation control

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Hiding Thermal Signatures

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Doubly-Periodic Photonic Crystals:Dual-Band Optical Properties (I)

“On demand” optical transmission and reflection spectra three characteristic length scales: radius of the cylinders, distance between the cylinders and width of the rectangular veins (optimum values: r/a=0.078, L/a=0.194 and w/a=0.38) full photonic band gap (both polarizations) of ω/ωc=18.25% centered on ωc/ω0=0.83 presents spectral regions with high reflection concomitant with a large number of modes at lower frequencies (high transmission)

Photonic crystal structure Photonic band structure

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Doubly-Periodic Photonic Crystals:Dual-Band Optical Properties (II)

“On demand” field distribution depending on the frequency the field can be localized in different regions of the high-index of refraction dielectric or in the air fraction spatial field distribution can be used to optimize the coupling to absorbers placed into the structure in order to enhance thermal emission

Electromagnetic field distribution for TM modes for the first three bands at the M-point

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Dynamical Tuning of Spectral Emissivity

Normalized emission from photonic crystal test structure at 325 C under different gas conditions: different concentration values for CO2 and N2. (right side-zoom in)

Possibility of tuning the emissivity of the structure by gas choice and by controlling its gas concentration

3.9 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.70.00

0.05

0.10

0.15

0.20

0.25

wavelength (microns)

Baselinenog C-10C-12.5 C-15 C-2.5 C-20 C-5 N2-a N2-b N2-c N2-d N2-e N2purge

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Contents

Introduction to Applications of Photonic Band Gap (PBG) Material

What is a Photonic Band Gap Material?

Generating Electricity from Spectral & Directional Control of IR Radiation

Controlling Thermal Radiation for IR Camouflage

Pumping Laser Weapons with Thermal Radiation from PBG Materials

Initial Experimental Studies On PBG Thermal radiation control

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Energy Separation - I Energy Separation - I

Schematic of energy flow: 1. Temperature gradient moves phonons left to right & Rethermalizes.2. Photonic Band Gap restricts photons to move downward.

Hot ColdNarrow Band

Photons Laser GainMedium

Phonons

Light Spectral Distribution vs Position

Three types of insulators are possible: electrical, thermal, & light. We are using the light insulating properties of Photonic Crystals to force the desired narrow-band photons into the Lasing gain medium & rethermalizing the remaining out-of-band photons into the desired band for further extraction.

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Energy Separation - IIEnergy Separation - II

Cold

Hot

PhotonicCrystal

LasingMedium

Designing thespectral and directionalProperties of PCS is a

hard synthesis problem.

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Contents

Introduction to Applications of Photonic Band Gap (PBG) Material

What is a Photonic Band Gap Material?

Generating Electricity from Spectral & Directional Control of IR Radiation

Controlling Thermal Radiation for IR Camouflage

Pumping Laser Weapons with PBG & Thermal Radiation

Initial Experimental Studies On PBG Thermal radiation control

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Photonic Crystals:Thermal Radiation Control in IR

Three-dimensional photonic crystal emitter for thermophotovoltaic power generation, Lin et al.,(2003) Sandia Labs

Photonic-crystal enhanced narrow-band infrared emitters, Pralle et al. (2002) Ion Optics

Enhancement and suppression of thermal emission by a three-dimensional photonic crystal, Lin et al. (2000) Sandia Labs

Direct calculation of thermal emission for three-dimensionally periodic photonic crystal slabs, Chan et al.(2006) MIT

Thermal emission and absorption of radiation in finite inverted-opal photonic crystals, Florescu et al.,(2005) JPL&LSU

New, $4.6M, world-class, JEOL JBX-9300FS e-beam lithography system (third of its kind) MDL JPL

512 node, dual-processor IA32 Linux cluster with 3.06 GHz Intel Pentium IV

Xeon processors and 2 GB RAM Super- Mike LSU

Spectral and angular optical FTIR

characterization facilities

Ion Optics Inc.

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BB, Pin = 315 mW, T2 = 420.1 oC

BB, Pin = 130 mW, T1 = 273.4 oC

PC, Pin = 130 mW, T2 = 420.1 oC

– Funneling of thermal radiation of larger wavelength (orange area) to thermal radiation of shorter wavelength (grey area).

BB (273.4oC) and PC (273.4oC) plots have the same input power while the photonic crystal produces lower wavelength photons

BB (420.1oC) and PC (273.4oC) plots have the same peak power wavelength

Funneling of the Thermal RadiationExperimental Results

JPL (micro-fab), Ion Optics (testing), LSU (analysis)

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Conclusions

TPV cell efficiencies can be dramatically improved by employing the spectral and angular control provided by photonic crystals

Dual-band spectral radiation management systems using doubly-periodic photonic crystals are now being designed using a restricted set of “practical” structures

Experimental results confirm the photonic crystal ability to control the thermal radiation properties

New vistas exist for using photonic crystals in lasers, IR thermal signature suppression, and high-power ( non-chemical ) lasers for communications and weapons.