Propagation of light waves in Thue-Morse dielectric multilayers

被引:139
作者
Liu, NH [1 ]
机构
[1] NANCHANG UNIV,INST MAT SCI,NANCHANG 330047,PEOPLES R CHINA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1997年 / 55卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.55.3543
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We investigate the propagation of light waves in an aperiodic multilayer which is composed of dielectric slabs arranged following the Thue-Morse sequence. Both refractive index modulation and optical thickness modulation are considered. The recursion relations of the transfer matrix elements are derived to calculate the transmission. By introducing a localization index we explore the localization properties of light in the aperiodic system. Around a particular center frequency (the midgap frequency of a periodic quarter-wavelength multilayer), the transmission is more sensitive to the optical thickness modulation.
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页码:3543 / 3547
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