Optical properties of a quasi-periodic generalized Fibonacci structure of chiral and material layers

The reflection and transmission coefficients of the perpendicular and parallel polarization plane electromagnetic waves of a finite quasi-periodic Fibonacci sequence of chiral and convenient isotropic magnetodielectric layers are obtained using the 2 X 2-block-representation transfer-matrix formulation. A correlation has been established between geometrical and spectral properties of the structure under consideration. Numerical simulations are carried out for different structures to reveal the dependence of the reflection and transmission coefficients on the frequency, chirality parameter, and the angle of wave incidence. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America