Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

Omnidirectional gaps of one-dimensional photonic crystals containing indefinite metamaterials

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

The explicit dispersion relation for one-dimensional photonic crystals consisting of alternative layers of indefinite metamaterial and ordinary positive-index material is obtained and analyzed in detail. It is shown that such a photonic crystal possesses an omnidirectional zero-averaged refractive-index gap when the indefinite metamaterial is a cutoff or anticutoff medium, yet it possesses an omnidirectional zero-effective phase gap when the photonic crystal contains two different always-cutoff media. The appearance of these two omnidirectional gaps does not require that all tensor elements of permittivity and permeability have negative values, quite different from that for the photonic crystal containing isotropic negative-index or single-negative material. Moreover, the new zero-averaged refractive-index gap and zero-effective phase gap are also insensitive to the incident angle and polarization of light and are invariant upon the change of scale length. These properties provide more degrees of freedom to design new types of optical devices.

© 2007 Optical Society of America

Full Article  |  PDF Article
More Like This
Influence of the orientation of optical axis on the transmission properties of one-dimensional photonic crystals containing uniaxial indefinite metamaterial

Amir Madani, Samad Roshan Entezar, Abdolrahman Namdar, and Habib Tajalli
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(10) 2910-2914 (2012)

Omnidirectional photonic bandgap in one-dimensional photonic crystals containing hyperbolic metamaterials

Guang Lu, Xiachen Zhou, Yunpeng Zhao, Kaiyuan Zhang, Haiyang Zhou, Junyang Li, Chao Diao, Fen Liu, Ailing Wu, and Guiqiang Du
Opt. Express 29(20) 31915-31923 (2021)

Polarization-independent omnidirectional defect modes in Bragg gaps of one-dimensional photonic crystals

Mahendra Makhan and Satish Kumar Ramchurn
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24(12) 3040-3047 (2007)

Cited By

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Figures (10)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Figure files are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Equations (23)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Equations are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved