Existence of an omni-directional photonic band gap in one-dimensional periodic dielectric structures

1998/10/22 by Dmitry N. Chigrin, Chigrin, Dmitry N., Andrei V. Lavrinenko +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.soft

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9810302

4 pages, 7 figures; submitted to Physical Review Letters on June 1, 1998, resubmitted on October 12, 1998

arxiv created 1998/10/22 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

It is shown that total reflection for all incident angles does not require a two- or three-dimensional photonic crystal. We demonstrate that a one-dimensional photonic crystal can exhibit total omni-directional reflection for any incident wave within some frequency region. The formation of the omni-directional gap is discussed and a wide range of realistic fabrication parameters is proposed.

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