Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Université Paris—sud

Institut D'optique Graduate School

Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Henri Benisty

Anne-Lise Coutrot

Mondher Besbes

A source of directional radiation in an IR band comprises at least a substrate and an external layer comprising controllable cells made of a metal insulator transition material that changes phase depending on its temperature relative to a temperature at which the corresponding wavelength is located in the IR band and that possesses a crystalline phase and an amorphous phase, and control means for controlling the phase change of the cells so as to form in this external layer a diffraction grating when the cells are controlled to the amorphous phase, in order thus to obtain a switchable directional source.

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Vieille Eglise en Yvelines, France

Philippe Ben-Abdallah