Design of broad omnidirectional total reflectors based on one-dimensional dielectric and magnetic photonic crystals

Omnidirectional total reflectors based on one-dimensional dielectric and magnetic photonic crystals are investigated in this paper. We adopt the transmission matrix method to analyze the transmission properties of such reflectors and use the decimal genetic algorithm to obtain broad omnidirectional total reflection (ODTR) bandwidth. Finally, an omnidirectional total reflector with very broad ODTR bandwidth of 1.34ω0 is achieved.