Open AccessApplications of the layer-KKR method to photonic crystals
Author(s) -
A. Modinos,
N. Stéfanou,
Vassilios Yannopapas
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.8.000197
Subject(s) - photonic crystal , materials science , optics , slab , reflection (computer programming) , cermet , photonics , layer (electronics) , reflection coefficient , spheres , transmission coefficient , optoelectronics , transmission (telecommunications) , physics , composite material , ceramic , geophysics , computer science , programming language , electrical engineering , astronomy , engineering
A brief introduction of the layer-Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method for calculations of the frequency band structure of photonic crystals and of the transmission and reflection coefficients of light incident on slabs of such crystals is followed by two applications of the method. The first relates to the frequency band structure of metallodielectric composites and demonstrates the essential difference between cermet and network topology of such composites at low frequencies. The second application is an analysis of recent measurements of the reflection of light from a slab of a colloidal system consisting of latex spheres in air.