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Experimental Probes of the Optical Properties of Photonic Crystals

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The propagation of electromagnetic radiation in three-dimensional periodic dielectric structures is strongly modified if the wavelength of the radiation is on the order of the lattice spacing.1–5 Such structures are called photonic crystals. Their periodicity gives rise to photonic band structures in a way that is analogous to electronic band structures.6 Much of the recent interest in photonic crystals stems from the possibility of making lattices for which there exists a range of frequencies in which waves cannot propagate in any direction in the crystal.1–4 Such a photonic band gap occurs if the coupling between light and lattice is sufficiently strong. The coupling is conveniently gauged by the polarizability per volume of the scatters.7 If a lattice could be constructed with a photonic band gap at optical frequencies, this would result in spectacular effects such as the inhibition of spontaneous emission,3 and localization of light.4

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  1. Henry M. van Driel

    Present address: Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, M5S 1A7

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    Present address: Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

  3. A. Femius Koenderink & Arnout Imhof

    Present address: Debye Instituut, Universiteit Utrecht, Princetonplein 1, 3584 CC, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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Vos, W.L., van Driel, H.M., Megens, M., Koenderink, A.F., Imhof, A. (2001). Experimental Probes of the Optical Properties of Photonic Crystals. In: Soukoulis, C.M. (eds) Photonic Crystals and Light Localization in the 21st Century. NATO Science Series, vol 563. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0738-2_15

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