Photonic Crystals: Physics and Technology

1. Introduction

Part I. Basics

2. Introduction to Photonic Crystals and Photonic Band-Gaps
Richard M. Rue, Sarah A. Rue

3. Physics of Slow Bloch Modes and Their Applications
Pierre Viktorovitch

Part II. Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystals

4. Quasi Phase Matching in Two-Dimensional Quadratic Nonlinear Photonic Crystals
Ady Arie, Nili Habshoosh, Alon Bahabad

5. Harmonic Generation in Nanostructures: Metal Nanoparticles and Photonic Crystals
Andrea Marco Malvezzi

6. Ultra-fast Optical Reconfiguration via Nonlinear Effects in Semiconductor Photonic Crystals
Crina Cojocaru, Jose Trull, Ramon Vilaseca, Fabrice Raineri, Ariel Levenson, Rama Raj

7. Nonlinear Optics with Photonic-Crystal Fibres
Aleksei M. Zheltikov

Part III. Technology, Integration an Active Photonic Crystals

8. Photonic Crystal and Photonic Band-Gap Structures for Light Extraction and Emission Control
Richard M. Rue

9. Silicon-Based Photonic Crystals and Nanowires
Bozena Jaskorzynska, Lech Wosinski

Part IV. Characterisation and Measurements of Nanostructures

10. Near Infrared Optical Characterization Techniques for Photonic Crystals
Romuald Houdré

11. Characterization Techniques for Planar Optical Microresonators
René M. Ridder, Wico C.L. Hopman, Edwin J. Klein

12. On SNOM Resolution Improvement
Tomasz J. Antosiewicz, Marian Marciniak, Tomasz Szoplik

Part V. Simulation Techniques

13. Photonic Crystals: Simulation Successes and some Remaining Challenges
Trevor M. Benson, Peter Bienstman

14. Plane-Wave Admittance Method and its Applications to Modelling Photonic Crystal Structures
Maciej Dems, Tomasz Czyszanowski, Rafa? Koty?ski, Krassimir Panajotov

Keywords: Physics, Electromagnetism, Optics and Lasers, Nanotechnology, Laser Technology and Physics, Photonics, Quantum Optics, Quantum Electronics, Nonlinear Optics, Optical Spectroscopy, Ultrafast Optics