Nonreciprocal absorption characteristics of one-dimensional cylindrical magnetized plasma photonic crystals

Abstract

By combining the propagation matrix of planar magnetized plasma photonic crystals with that of the cylindrical non-magnetized medium, the transfer matrix equation of the cylindrical magnetized plasma photonic crystals is obtained. Applying this equation to the cylindrical structure, a quasi-periodic structure conforming to the Pell sequence is designed, which has good nonreciprocal property. Therefore, the absorptance of light propagating forward and backward in this structure are studied respectively. The concept of contrast ratio (D C ), calculated from the absorption of the forward and backward propagation of electromagnetic waves in the structure, is used to compare the degree of difference between the two. It is found that the nonreciprocal propagation becomes larger with the increase of the azimuth modulus and the relative dielectric constant of the medium, increases first, and then decreases with the increase of the incident angle, but does not change obviously when the plasma collision frequency and the cyclotron frequency of the plasma are getting larger. The absorptance decreases with the increase of azimuth modulus, relative dielectric constant, and plasma cyclotron frequency, and becomes better with the increase of the plasma collision frequency. However, when the incident angle gets larger, the absorptance becomes better at first and then gets worse.