Peculiarities of band structure of one-dimensional photonic crystals

Abstract

In this paper, the peculiarities of the band structure of one-dimensional photonic crystals are studied, when the periodic (quasiperiodic) medium is inhomogeneous in relation to both the dielectric and magnetic properties. It is shown that the photonic band gap does not appear at small angles of incidence, in the case when the modulation depths of the dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability coincide. The possibilities of obtaining photonic bandgaps in the terahertz radiation region are considered. The features of the band structure of photonic crystal with different spatial periods of the dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability are investigated. It is shown that in this case, four PBGs appear in each diffraction reflection order.