Optical metamaterials with quasicrystalline symmetry: Symmetry-induced optical isotropy

Sergey S. Kruk,1 Christian Helgert,1,2 Manuel Decker,1 Isabelle Staude,1 Christoph Menzel,2,3 Christoph Etrich,3 Carsten Rockstuhl,3 Chennupati Jagadish,4 Thomas Pertsch,2 Dragomir N. Neshev,1 and Yuri S. Kivshar1 1Nonlinear Physics Centre and Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia 2Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany 3Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Solid State Optics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany 4Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia (Received 19 March 2013; published 18 November 2013)