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Normal-incidence reflection spectra of the (111) photonic opal surface in the regions of the first and second photonic band gaps

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We have studied the reflection spectra of opal photonic crystals with air-or ethanol-filled pores at different diameters of the silica spheres. An experimental technique has been proposed which enables identification of both the first and second photonic band gaps in the reflection spectrum of opal. The ability to observe the second band gap allowed us to derive a dispersion relation for the refractive index of the infiltrated substance. The calculations were performed using a model for a one-dimensional periodic layered medium with two refractive indices. We obtained ω(k) dispersion curves for electromagnetic waves in a photonic crystal (at normal incidence). The ω(k) dispersion law was used to find a dispersion relation for the reflectance of the photonic crystal.

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  1. Lebedev Institute of Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russia

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Original Russian Text © Yu.A. Voshchinskii, V.S. Gorelik, 2011, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2011, Vol. 47, No. 12, pp. 1466–1469

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Voshchinskii, Y.A., Gorelik, V.S. Normal-incidence reflection spectra of the (111) photonic opal surface in the regions of the first and second photonic band gaps. Inorg Mater 47, 1337–1340 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168511110239

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