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Optical properties of ternary superconducting planar/annular photonic crystals composed of a high-temperature superconductor and two dielectrics were theoretically investigated based on transfer matrix methods in Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates. Electrodynamics of superconductor were modelled using two-fluid model. It is of interest to observe that, for a planar structure, there exists an additional high reflectance band termed as superpolariton gap near the superconducting threshold wavelength for the TM wave at oblique incidences and some reflection dips also were found in the TM reflectance. However, the superpolariton gap and reflection dips were seen for an annular geometry at higher order azimuthal number. For an annular structure, the size of superpolariton gap can be controlled by simply adjusting the starting radius. Moreover, the superpolariton gap in both structures strongly depends on the operating temperature, different combinations of dielectric refractive indices, and thicknesses of dielectric materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the transmission characteristics of superconducting quasi-periodic photonic crystal structure arranged in Thue-Morse and double-period sequences. We mainly focused on the cutoff frequency of transmittance spectra. The study shows that the cutoff frequency can be appreciably tuned by generation number of sequence, thicknesses of constituent layers and operating temperature. Shifting behaviour of cutoff frequency is in contrast with periodic structure on varying superconductor thickness and temperature whereas it shows opposite trend on changing the dielectric layer thickness. It is also observed that different quasi-periodic structures show distinct values of cutoff frequency and different transmission properties. This features allow to tune the cutoff frequency or band gap in the whole infrared frequency region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]