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Spectral and polarization effects in deterministically non-periodic multilayers containing optically anisotropic and gyrotropic materials

S V Zhukovsky1 and V M Galynsky2

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The influence of material anisotropy and gyrotropy on optical properties of fractal multilayer nanostructures is theoretically investigated. Gyrotropy is found to uniformly rotate the output polarization for bi-isotropic multilayers of arbitrary geometrical structure without any changes in transmission spectra. When introduced in a polarization splitter based on a birefringent fractal multilayer, isotropic gyrotropy is found to resonantly alter output polarizations without shifting of transmission peak frequencies. The design of frequency-selective absorptionless polarizers for polarization-sensitive integrated optics is outlined.


PACS

78.67.Pt Multilayers; superlattices

42.82.Bq Design and performance testing of integrated-optical systems

78.20.Ek Optical activity

42.70.-a Optical materials

78.20.Fm Birefringence

42.79.Ci Filters, zone plates, and polarizers

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Optics, quantum optics and lasers

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Dates

Issue 6 (June 2006)

Received 5 September 2005, accepted for publication 21 March 2006

Published 28 April 2006



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