Theoretical Analysis of Band Gap Formation in Rotationally Symmetric 2D Photonic Quasi-crystal Using Rotational Symmetry Arguments

摘要

The key feature that gives photonic crystals (PhCs) their ability to form a photonic band structure (PBS) is their translational symmetry. Structures that do not have translational symmetries also have a PBS. One explanation as to how these structures generate a PBS involves long-range interactions resulting in fractal dispersion relations (e.g. 1-D quasi-crystals, Fibonacci layers, etc.) However, long-range interactions do not fully explain why 2-D quasi-crystals structures also exhibit a PBS. This paper proposes an explanation for such results: by applying rotation operators from the SO(2) group to 1-D quasi-crystal dispersion relations. This process mimics the way electronic state amplitudes are calculated when such states have an angular dependence. Simulations results are presented in this paper.