Band structure, group velocity, effective group index and effective phase index of one dimensional plasma photonic crystal

In this present communication, we study the reflection behavior of electromagnetic in one-dimensional photonic crystal of electromagnetic waves in microwave region of electromagnetic spectrum. The Plasma Photonic Crystal structure is composed of alternate layers of thin micro-plasma and dielectric material electromagnetic (EM) spectrum in one-dimensional Plasma Photonic Crystals (PPCs). In order to obtain the characteristic equation (dispersion relation), we have solved the Maxwell scalar wave equation. Beside this we study the anomalous behavior of group velocity and effective index of refraction of PPCs in microwave region. We have adopted Transfer Matrix Method (TMM) for calculating reflectance and dispersion relation of PPCs. In order to calculate the expression for effective refractive index inside the PPCs structure we have used the concept of the group velocity instead of phase velocity.In this communication we studied the reflection properties of plasma dielectric photonic crystal such photonic band gap materials are used to make a filter. Anomalous group velocity, effective group index and effective phase index in such plasma photonic crystal with variation of plasma density as well as plasma width.