Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light - Second EditionSince it was first published in 1995, Photonic Crystals has remained the definitive text for both undergraduates and researchers on photonic band-gap materials and their use in controlling the propagation of light. This newly expanded and revised edition covers the latest developments in the field, providing the most up-to-date, concise, and comprehensive book available on these novel materials and their applications.
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... dielectric waveguides, 2D-periodic photonic-crystal slabs, and photonic-crystal fibers. The final chapter, chapter ... contrast for both 2D and 3D photonic crystals. Appendix D now provides a completely new description of computational ...
... contrast is only along one direction, the band gaps and the bound states are ... dielectric structures that possess a complete photonic band gap was one of ... Dielectric Media IN IN ORDER TO INTRODUCTION 5.
... dielectric constant ) . This makes photonic crystals scalable in a way that traditional crystals are not , as we will see later in this chapter . The Macroscopic Maxwell Equations All of macroscopic electromagnetism , including the ...
... permittivity.3 Third , we ignore any explicit frequency dependence ( material dispersion ) of the dielectric constant . Instead , we simply choose the value of the dielectric constant appropriate to the frequency range of the physical ...
... dielectric medium is a differential equation for H ( r ) , given by equation ( 7 ) . The content of the equation is ... constant times the original function H ( r ) . This situation arises often in mathematical physics , and is called an ...