Fig. 1. (a) Illustration of the unit cell of the dielectric photonic crystal for the realization of PLM; (b) band structures of the photonic crystal for transverse-electric polarization; (c) equal frequency contours in the second band; the red lines denote the equal frequency contour at ; (d) pseudo-local effective parameters of the photonic crystal.

Fig. 2. Electric field-distribution for a transverse electric-polarized Gaussian beam incident from air onto the (a) PLM plate and (b) LMC plate under 30°-incidence at .

Fig. 3. (a) Transmittance through the PLM plate as the function of the incident angle in the LMC background; (b) electric field-distribution when an electric monopole source is placed on the left side of the PLM plate in the LMC background

Fig. 4. Left: equal frequency contours of the photonic crystal-based PLM (red) and the background medium (gray) at (a) and (b) . Right: electric fields-distribution for a transverse electric-polarized Gaussian beam incident from the background medium onto the PLM under 25°-incidence at (a) and (b) .

Fig. 5. (a) Illustration of an all-angle phase grating based on the PLM; (b) electric field-distributions for transverse electric-polarized plane waves incident onto the phase grating under 10°- (left), 45°- (middle) and 60°- (right) incidences.