Optical localization in quasi-periodic multilayers

We investigate the optical transmission spectra of quasi-periodic dielectric multilayer slabs arranged in a fashion that exhibits what has been called deterministic disorders. They can be of the so-called substitutional sequences type, and are characterized by the nature of their Fourier spectrum, which can be dense pure point (e.g. a Fibonacci sequence) or singular continuous (e.g. Thue-Morse and double-period sequences). The transmission coefficients are conveniently derived by using a theoretical model based on the transfer-matrix approach. A comparison between the oblique-incidence optical transmission spectrum and the normal-incidence one shows quite a different transmission behaviours over a particular range of frequency.