Photonic Crystals: Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Approximation

• Main Authors: Dörfler, Willy (Author), Lechleiter, Armin (Author), Plum, Michael (Author), Schneider, Guido (Author), Wieners, Christian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel, 2011.
• Series: Oberwolfach Seminars ; 42
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Mathematics, general.

This volume collects a series of lectures which provide an introduction to the mathematical background needed for the modeling and simulation of light, in particular in periodic media, and for its applications in optical devices. The book concentrates on the mathematics of photonic crystals, which f...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Photonic bandstructure calculations
• 3 On the spectra of periodic differential operators
• 4 An introduction to direct and inverse scattering theory
• 5 Nonlinear optics
• Bibliography.