Enlarged omnidirectional band gap in one-dimensional plasma photonic crystals with ternary Thue-Morse aperiodic structure

In this paper, an omnidirectional photonic band gap (OBG) which originates from Bragg gap compared to zero-(n) over tilde gap or single negative (negative permittivity or negative permeability) gap, realized by one-dimensional (1D) plasma photonic crystals (PPCs) with ternary Thue-Morse aperiodic structure, which is composed of plasma and two kinds of homogeneous, isotropic dielectric is theoretically studied by the transfer matrix method (TMM) in detail. Such OBG is insensitive to the incident angle and the polarization of electromagnetic wave (EM wave). From the numerical results, the bandwidth and central frequency of OBG can be notably broadened by changing the thickness of plasma and dielectric layers but cease to change with increasing Thue-Morse order. The OBG also can be manipulated by plasma density. However, the plasma collision frequency has no effect on the bandwidth of OBG. These results may provide theoretical instructions to design the future optoelectronic devices based on plasma photonic crystals. Crown Copyright (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier By. All rights reserved.