This volume contains papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) Photonic Crystals and Light Localization held at the Creta Maris Hotel in Limin Hersonissou, Crete, June 18-30, 2000. Photonic crystals offer unique ways to tailor light and the propagation of electromagnetic waves (EM). In analogy to electrons in a crystal, EM waves propagating in a structure with a periodically modulated dielectric constant are organized into photonic bands, separated by gaps where propagating states are forbidden. There have been proposals for novel applications ofthese photonic band gap (PBG) crystals, with operating frequencies ranging from microwave to the optical regime, that include zero threshold lasers, low-loss resonators and cavities, and efficient microwave antennas. Spontaneous emission, suppressed for photons in the photonic band gap, offers novel approaches to manipulate the EM field and create high-efficiency light-emitting structures. Innovative ways to manipulate light can have a profound iofluence on science and technology.
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978-94-010-0738-2 (9789401007382)
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10.1007/978-94-010-0738-2
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Photonic Crystals: Introduction.- Novelties of Light With Photonic Crystals.- 3D Photonic Crystals: From Microwaves to Optical Frequencies.- Tunable Photonic Crystals.- Acoustic Band Gap Materials.- The Finite Difference Time Domain Method for the Study of Two-Dimensional Acoustic and Elastic Band Gap Materials.- Photonic Crystals: Fabrication and Application.- Micro-Fabrication and Nano-Fabrication of Photonic Crystals.- Semiconductor Photonic Crystals.- Light Propagation Characteristics of Defect Waveguides in a Photonic Crystal Slab.- Applications of Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals to Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices.- Patterned Photonic Crystal Waveguides.- Photonic Crystals from Macroporous Silicon.- Characterization of a Three-Dimensional Microwave Photonic Band-Gap Crystal.- One-Dimensional Periodic Structures Under a New Light.- Defect Modes in Quasi-One-Dimensional Photonic Waveguides-Application to the Resonant Tunneling Between Two Continua.- Photonic Crystals: Fabrication by Self Organization.- Experimental Probes of the Optical Properties of Photonic Crystals.- Inverse Opals Fabrication.- The Complete Photonic Band Gap in Inverted Opals: How can we prove it experimentally?.- Manipulating Colloidal Crystallization for Photonic Applications: From Self-Organization To Do-It-Yourself Organization.- Thin Opaline Photonic Crystals.- Manfred Müller, and Rudolf Zentel Tunable Shear-Ordered Face-Centered Cubic Photonic Crystals.- Photonic Crystals: Applications.- Physics and Applications of Photonic Crystals.- Photonic Crystal Fibers: Effective-Index and Band-Gap Guidance.- Applications of Photonic Crystals to Directional Antennas.- Photonic Crystals: Metallic Structures.- Intense Focusing of Light Using Metals.- Left-Handed Metamaterials.- Towards CompletePhotonic Band Gap Structures Below Infrared Wavelengths.- Effect of Moderate Disorder on the Absorbance of Plasma Spheres Distributed in a Host Dielectric Medium.- Random Lasers.- Random Lasers With Coherent Feedback.- Analysis of Random Lasers in Thin Films of ?-Conjugated Polymers.- Theory and Simulations of Random Lasers.- Cavity Approach Towards a Coherent Random Lasers.- Localization of Light.- Propagation of Light in Disordered Semiconductor Materials.- Radiative Transfer of Localized Waves: A Local Diffusion Theory.- Dynamics of Localization in a Waveguide.- From Proximity Resonances to Anderson Localization.- Photonic Crystals and Nonlinearities.- Band-Structure and Transmittance Calculations for Phononic Crystals by the LKKR Method.- Multipole Methods for Photonic Crystal Calculations.- Understanding Some Photonic Band Gap Problems by Using Perturbation.- Tight-binding Wannier Function Method for Photonic Band Gap Materials.- 1, 2, and 3 Dimensional Photonic Materials Made Using Ion Beams: Fabrication and Optical Density-of-States.- Percolation Composites: Localization of Surface Plasmons and Enhanced Optical Nonlinearities.- Quadratic Nonlinear Interactions in 1-Dimensional Photonic Crystals.- Quadratic Nonlinear Interactions in 3-Dimensional Photonic Crystals.- Author Index.
