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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... directions, or confining them within a specified volume. Already, fiber-optic cables, which simply guide light, have revolutionized the telecommunications industry. Laser engineering, high-speed computing, and spectroscopy are just a ...
... directions. If the lattice potential is strong enough, the gap can extend to cover all possible prop- agation directions, resulting in a complete band gap. For example, a semiconduc- tor has a complete band gap between the valence and ...
... direction from any source, we say that the crystal has a complete photonic band gap. A crystal with a complete band gap will obviously be an omnidirectional reflector, but the converse is not necessarily true. As we shall see, the ...
... direction periodic in two directions periodic in three directions Figure 1: Simple examples of one-, two-, and three-dimensional photonic crystals. The different colors represent materials with different dielectric constants. The ...
... direction, the band gaps and the bound states are limited to that direction. Nevertheless, this simple and traditional system illustrates most of the physical features of the more complex two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals ...