Optical properties of chiral photonic crystals with graded modulation parameters

The oblique transmission of light through a layer of a chiral photonic crystal with graded modulated parameters is considered. The problem is solved by the Ambartsumian’s layer addition method. Dependences of amplitude characteristics on the wavelength at different incident angels are presented for two cases: namely, for the case of a chiral photonic crystal with a linearly varied spatial period of modulation and in the case of a chiral photonic crystal with a linearly varied spatial depth of modulation. The case of a minimal influence of dielectric boundaries is considered. It is shown that in both cases a broadening of the photonic forbidden band gap takes place.