Transmission properties of one-dimensional ternary plasma photonic crystals

Abstract

Omnidirectional photonic band gaps (PBGs) are found in one-dimensional ternary plasma photonic crystals (PPC) composed of single negative metamaterials. The band characteristics and transmission properties are investigated through the transfer matrix method. We show that the proposed structure can trap light in three-dimensional space due to the elimination of Brewster's angle transmission resonance allowing the existence of complete PBG. The results are discussed in terms of incident angle, layer thickness, dielectric constant of the dielectric material, and number of unit cells (N) for TE and TM polarizations. It is seen that PBG characteristics is apparent even in an N ≥ 2 system, which is weakly sensitive to the incident angle and completely insensitive to the polarization. Finite PPC could be used for multichannel transmission filter without introducing any defect in the geometry. We show that the locations of the multichannel transmission peaks are in the allowed band of the infinite structure. The structure can work as a single or multichannel filter by varying the number of unit cells. Binary PPC can also work as a polarization sensitive tunable filter.

The absorber realized by 2D photonic crystals with plasma constituents

“…PPCs have been extensively investigated. They can be divided into 1D [24][25][26][27][28], 2D [29][30][31][32][33], and 3D structures [34,35]. Compared with 1D PPCs, 2D PPCs can be realized more easily and have also been studied more comprehensively using the photonic band gap (PBG).…”

A redshifted photonic bandgap and wide-angle polarization selection in an all-hyperbolic-metamaterial one-dimensional photonic crystal

“…[8][9][10] Therefore, 1-D PhCs have received much attention in the past three decades. [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] Assisted by their photonic bandgaps (PBGs), 1-D PhCs have been widely exploited to design absorbers, [24][25][26][27][28] emitters, 29,30 solar cells, 31,32 photodetectors, 33,34 sensors, [35][36][37] and filters. 38 The typical 1-D PhCs are all-dielectric 1-D PhCs entirely composed of isotropic dielectrics.…”

A Novel Comb-Like Nonreciprocal Evanescent Wave Filter Based on the 1-D Ternary Magnetized Plasma Photonic Crystals

“…Here, the 1-D ternary MPPCs (1-D TMPPCs) sandwiching a magnetized plasma layer between the two dielectric layers of the binary structure periodically, whose space-reversal symmetry is broken, can also be devoted to obtaining the nonreciprocal filtering. So far, many efforts have been carried out for studying the transmission properties of the EMWs of the 1-D PPCs consisting of plasma and lossless dielectric [24]- [27]; however, only few studies are available on the nonreciprocal evanescent waves within the magnetized plasma. Here, the transfer matrix method (TMM) [28], [29] and dispersion equations [18] of TM polarization are devoted to analyzing the transmission of the evanescent waves propagating in the 1-D TMPPCs from opposite directions.…”