Electrostatic waves in photonic hypercrystals

Abstract

Photonic hypercrystals —the artificial optical media that combines the properties of photonic crystals and hyperbolic metamaterials— can support propagation of electrostatic (or, more accurately, quasi-electrostatic) waves. In order to obtain the fundamental properties of electrostatic waves in such media, we study the dispersion relation, transmittance and reflectance behaviors of these waves in one-dimensional photonic hypercrystals, here metallic nanowire-based structures with two different periods. The results may be useful for electrodynamics of photonic hypercrystals.