Investigation of Photonic Crystals Containing Artificial Metamaterial Layers

A one-dimension photonic crystal containing usual isotropic, backward wave, and bianisotropic (anisotropic) layers is investigated by using the translation matrix method. The particular cases of the problem of layer rearrangement within a period is considered. It is describe the types of photonic crystals that have the same bandgap and the photonic crystals that have no bandgap.