We study theoretically the transmission spectra in one-dimensional photonic quasicrystals, made up of SiO 2 (A) and TiO 2 (B) materials, organized following the Octonacci sequence, where the nth-stage of the multilayer S n is given by the rule S n = S n−1 S n−2 S n−1 , for n ≥ 3 and with S 1 = A and S 2 = B. The expression for transmittance was obtained by employing a theoretical calculation based in the transfer-matrix method. To normally incident waves, we observe that, for a same generation, the transmission spectra for TE and TM waves are equal, at least qualitatively, and they present a scaling property where a self-similar behavior is obtained, as an evidence that these spectra are fractals. The spectra show regions where the omnidirectional band gaps emerges for specific generations of Octonacci photonic structure, except to TM waves. For TE waves, we note that all of them have the almost same width, for different generations. We also report the localization of modes as a consequence of the quasiperiodicity of the heterostructure.
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