Photonic Crystals

The first volume of the book concerns the introduction of photonic crystals and applications including design and modeling aspects. The goal of the first volume is to provide an overview.

This book is devoted to the description of research and design of photonic crystals. This book will be useful for engineers, technologists, researchers, and postgraduate students interested in the research, design, fabrication processes, and applications of photonic crystals.

This book collects chapters on different theoretical and experimental aspects of photonics crystals for Nanophotonics applications. It is divided in two parts - a theoretical section and an experimental and applicative section.

The second volume of the book concerns the characterization approach of photonic crystals, photonic crystal lasers, photonic crystal waveguides and plasmonics including the introduction of innovative systems and materials.

This book essentially highlights the recent developments in the arena of photonic crystal research. It is expected to be useful for expert as well as novice researchers; the former group of readers would be abreast of recent research advancements, whereas the latter group would benefit from grasping knowledge delivered by expert scientists.

This volume is dedicated to structures with alternative dielectric constant in one, two or three dimensions which are called one, two or three dimensional photonic crystals.