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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... Photonic Band Gaps of chapter 4 , we return to this question by considering a plane wave in free space and imagining that a periodicity is slowly turned on by gradually increasing the strength of a periodic dielectric perturbation .
... photonic crystals . The frequency bands have inversion symmetry even if the ... band index n and the wave vector k : awn awn Vn ( k ) = V kwn A x + awny + 2 ... Photonic Band Gaps of chapter 4 ) . formalism we have already developed in ...
... photonic crystals in general , such as photonic band gaps and modes that are localized around defects . The optical properties of a one - dimensional layered system may be familiar , but by expressing the results in the language of band ...
... Photonic Band Gap y c n e u q 0.15 0.15 Photonic Band Gap 0.15 e r 0.10 0.05 0.10 0.10 n = 1 n = 1 0.05 0.05 0.00 -0.5 -0.25 0 0.25 Wave vector ka/2π 0.00 0.00 0.5 -0.5 -0.25 0 0.25 0.5 Wave vector ka/2π -0.5 -0.25 0 0.25 Wave vector ka ...
... photonic band gap. The right-hand plot shows that the gap widens considerably as the dielectric contrast is increased. We will devote a considerable amount of attention to photonic band gaps, and with good reason. Many of the promising ...