Overview
- Provides the theoretical basis needed for the modeling of photonic crystals and their optical properties
- Presents various applications from the microwave to the optical domain
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Models for Photonic Crystals
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Optical Properties of Photonic Crystals
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Fabrication, Characterization and Applications of Photonic Bandgap Structures
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About this book
Just like the periodical crystalline potential in solid-state crystals determines their properties for the conduction of electrons, the periodical structuring of photonic crystals leads to envisioning the possibility of achieving a control of the photon flux in dielectric and metallic materials.
The use of photonic crystals as a cage for storing, filtering or guiding light at the wavelength scale thus paves the way to the realisation of optical and optoelectronic devices with ultimate properties and dimensions. This should contribute toward meeting the demands for a greater miniaturisation that the processing of an ever increasing number of data requires.
Photonic Crystals intends to provide students and researchers from different fields with the theoretical background needed for modelling photonic crystals and their optical properties, while at the same time presenting the large variety of devices, from optics to microwaves, where photonic crystals have found applications. As such, it aims at building bridges between optics, electromagnetism and solid-state physics.
This book was written by six specialists of nanophotonics, and was coordinated by Jean-Michel Lourtioz, head of the Institut d'Électronique Fondamentale in Orsay and coordinator of the French Research Network in Nanophotonics.
Reviews
In Photonic Crystals: Towards Nanoscale Photonic Devices, Jean-Michel Lourtioz and his colleagues have come out with an impressive major valume that covers many of the main themes of photonic crystals... The English version, thanks to translator Pierre-Noel Favennec, has been worth the wait... Overall, Photonic Crystals is an excellent book that can serve as an introductory text and a reference for graduate students and researchers.
--Eli Yablonovitch, UCLA, in Physics Today, August 2006
From the reviews of the second edition:
“This comprehensive book is the excellent picture of modern view on the photonic crystals then today day and future. The wide covering of corresponding theoretical, model and experimental methods, and also broad spectrum applications of the photonic crystals allow one to recommend this book for students, engineers and specialists studying and working in different regions of nanotechnologies, nanomaterials and related scientific areas.” (I. A. Parinov, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1169, 2009)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Photonic Crystals
Book Subtitle: Towards Nanoscale Photonic Devices
Authors: Jean-Michel Lourtioz, Henri Benisty, Vincent Berger, Jean-Michel Gérard, Daniel Maystre, Alexei Tchelnokov, Dominique Pagnoux
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78347-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-78346-6Published: 20 May 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09704-1Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-78347-3Published: 19 March 2008
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 514
Number of Illustrations: 151 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Original French edition published by Hermes Science, France, 2003
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Optical and Electronic Materials, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering