Negative refraction and localized states of a classical wave in high-symmetry quasicrystals

Abstract

Recently, negative refraction of electromagnetic waves in periodic photonic crystals has been demonstrated experimentally and sub-wavelength images observed. A theoretical and experimental investigation is reported of the electromagnetic wave transport in high-symmetry photonic quasicrystals (QCs). It is shown that negative refraction can appear in these transparent quasicrystalline photonic structures. It is interesting that highly symmetric two-dimensional photonic QCs possess a universal feature for non-near-field focus of two kinds of polarized waves (S wave and P wave). That is, the non-near-field focus for two kinds of polarized waves can be realized by using flat lenses, which consist of some high-symmetric two-dimensional photonic QCs with the same structures and parameters. In addition, some two-dimensional and three-dimensional localized states in defect-free photonic QCs have been found. It is evident that these unusual localized states can be explored by means of electron energy loss spectroscopy.

Keywords:

• quasicrystal
• negative refraction
• localized state

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10825416) and the National Key Basic Research Special Foundation of China under Grant 2007CB613205.