Abstract

This paper reports on a comprehensive immersion spectroscopy study of the spectral position and profile of the dip corresponding to the (111) photonic band in the transmission spectra of synthetic opals. The variation in the opal-filler permittivity contrast in the region of the immersion-mediated disappearance of the (111) band has revealed its anomalous abrupt behavior. The width of the (111) photonic band at the L point of the Brillouin zone of the fcc lattice has been calculated as a function of the opal-filler permittivity contrast in the plane wave approximation. The experimentally observed (111) dip width is found to be substantially larger than that obtained in the calculations, which can be due to deviations in the size and dielectric parameters of the a-SiO2 particles making up synthetic opals.

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