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On the theory of diffraction of light in photonic crystals with allowance for interlayer disordering

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Electrodynamic Green’s functions are used to construct an analytical theory of the Bragg diffraction of polarized light in photonic crystals having a close-packed structure. For opal-based photonic crystals, the Bragg diffraction intensity is calculated with allowance for permittivity periodic modulation and for the presence of an optical crystal boundary and interlayer disordering, which usually appears during sample growth. A comprehensive study is made of the effect of the structure disorder caused by the random packing of growth layers on diffraction. For a random constructed twinned fcc structure, the average structure factor and the scattering (diffraction) cross sections (which are dependent on the linear polarization of the incident and scattered waves) are calculated. Numerical examples are used to show that the theory developed can be applied to analyze and process experimental diffraction patterns of real photonic crystals having a close-packed structure disordered in one direction.

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Translated from Fizika Tverdogo Tela, Vol. 47, No. 11, 2005, pp. 1954–1963.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Kosobukin.

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Kosobukin, V.A. On the theory of diffraction of light in photonic crystals with allowance for interlayer disordering. Phys. Solid State 47, 2035–2045 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.2131141

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