Far-Field Focus and Dispersionless Anticrossing Bands in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals

We review the simulation work for the far-field focus and dispersionless anticrossing bands in two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals. In a two-dimensional photonic-crystal-based concave lens, the far-field focus of a plane waveis given by the distance between the focusing point and the lens. Strong and good-quality far-field focusing of a transmittedwave, explicitly following the well-known wave-beam negative refraction law, can be achieved. The spatial frequencyinformation of the Bloch mode in multiple Brillouin zones (BZs) is investigated in order to indicate the wave propagation intwo different regions. When considering the photonic transmission in a 2D photonic crystal composed of a negativephase-velocity medium (NPVM), it is shown that the dispersionless anticrossing bands are generated by the couplingsamong the localized surface polaritons of the NPVM rods. The photonic band structures of the NPVM photonic crystals arecharacterized by a topographical continuous dispersion relationship accompanied by many anticrossing bands