Optical Properties of Photonic Crystals

• Main Author: Sakoda, Kazuaki (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 80
• Subjects: Lasers.; Photonics.; Crystallography.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Crystallography and Scattering Methods.

The interaction between the radiation field and matter is the most fundamen­ tal source of dynamics in nature. It brings about the absorption and emission of photons, elastic and inelastic light scattering, the radiative lifetime of elec­ tronic excited states, and so on. The huge amount of energy c...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Eigenmodes of Photonic Crystals
• 3. Symmetry of Eigenmodes
• 4. Transmission Spectra
• 5. Optical Response of Photonic Crystals
• 6. Defect Modes in Photonic Crystals
• 7. Band Calculation with Frequency-Dependent Dielectric Constants
• 8. Photonic Crystal Slabs
• 9. Low-Threshold Lasing Due to Group-Velocity Anomaly
• 10. Quantum Optics in Photonic Crystals
• 11. Epilogue
• References.