Universität Potsdam Institut für Physik Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25 14476 Potsdam-Golm |
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AbstractThermal radiation emitted by a body at temperature T is generally taken as a typical example of incoherent radiation as opposed to laser light. The former is nearly isotropic, the latter being highly directional, the former has a broad spectrum, the latter is quasi-monochromatic. Even if it may appear surprising, the thermal radiation of a significant number of materials is coherent when it is detected at a sub-wavelength distance from the emitting surface. We shall see that these effects can be predicted from an electromagnetic approach to thermal radiation. Several recent experiments have confirmed these unexpected properties. file generated: 10 Sep 2008
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