Photonic Crystals: Introduction, Applications and Theory

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Alessandro Massaro
BoD – Books on Demand, Mar 30, 2012 - Technology & Engineering - 358 pages
The first volume of the book concerns the introduction of photonic crystals and applications including design and modeling aspects. Photonic crystals are attractive optical materials for controlling and manipulating the flow of light. In particular, photonic crystals are of great interest for both fundamental and applied research, and the two dimensional ones are beginning to find commercial applications such as optical logic devices, micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), sensors. The first commercial products involving two-dimensionally periodic photonic crystals are already available in the form of photonic-crystal fibers, which use a microscale structure to confine light with radically different characteristics compared to conventional optical fiber for applications in nonlinear devices and guiding wavelengths. The goal of the first volume is to provide an overview about the listed issues.

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Chapter
3
Chapter
9
Basics of the Photonic Crystal Gratings
25
MEMS Based Deep 1D Photonic Crystal
81
and Photonic Logic Gate Design
133
Interferometer for Humidity Sensing
159
Optical Solitons from a Photonic Crystal
201
LongPeriod Gratings Based
225
MultiWavelength Photonic Crystal Fiber Laser
253
Overview of Computational
267
Coupled Mode Theory of Photonic Crystal Lasers
291
Fourier Factorization in the Plane Wave
325
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