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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... extend to cover all possible prop- agation directions, resulting in a complete band gap. For example, a semiconduc- tor has a ... modes) that the atomic potential produces for electrons. One solution to the problem of optical control and ...
... extended modes ) . This property is quite general for many Hermitian eigenproblems . We will argue below that it follows from the orthogonality of the modes . A host of seemingly unrelated physical phenomena can be attributed to this ...
... modes near crystal defects . · w An intuitive explanation for the relation ... extended states . This is not too different from the case of a hydrogen atom ... modes that oscillate with a phase factor e - iwt . In quantum mechanics , the ...
... extends much farther in the x and y directions than in the z direction, we may consider ... modes are described by equation (6) can also be understood with an intuitive ... Extended states n = SYMMETRIES AND SOLID-STATE ELECTROMAGNETISM 29.
... Extended states n = 7 n = 3 n = 1 0 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 Figure 3 : Harmonic mode frequencies for a plane of glass of thickness a and ɛ = 11.4 . Blue lines correspond to modes that are localized in the glass . The shaded blue ...