Realization of body centered tetragonal, β-tin and diamond type structures using five beam interference

A five beam interference configuration, with one central circularly polarized beam and four linearly polarized side beams incident at equal tilt angles in two orthogonal planes, is investigated for realization of three dimensional periodic structures. It was observed that when the two pairs of linearly polarized waves are TE-TM polarized, dumb-bell shaped pattern and body centered tetragonal lattice structures could be realized. And when all the four linearly polarized waves are TE polarized, with circularly polarized central beam, woodpile type structures and β-tin type structure could be formed. The obtained β-tin type structure was found to get transformed into diamond cubic type structure when the angle of incidence was increased to an optimum value.