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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... index guiding and a section on how to understand the Bloch-wave propagation velocity. Chapter 4 includes a section ... index contrast for both 2D and 3D photonic crystals. Appendix D now provides a completely new description of ...
... index contrast is only along one 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 ...
... contrast of 13 to 1.2 The left-hand plot is for a homogeneous dielectric medium for which we have arbitrarily assigned a periodicity of a. But we already know that in a homogeneous medium, the speed of light is reduced by the index of ...
... index guiding and surface states (see the subsection Index guiding of ... contrast between the two mirror materials must be sufficiently large so that ... contrast with the ambient medium is reached when the p (TE) bands are pulled down ...
... Index contrast An Figure 15 : The evolution of localized modes associated with a defect column in an otherwise perfect square lattice , as the defect's index of refraction decreases . An index change An = 0 corresponds to the perfect ...
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