Maksim Skorobogatiy (Montreal Ecole Polytechnique), Jianke Yang (University of Vermont)

Fundamentals of Photonic Crystal Guiding

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting the field of photonic crystals using analytically solvable problems, this book provides a systematic, rigorous, and pedagogical introduction to this vibrant subject area. Including end-of-chapter problems, this accessible text is ideal for researchers and graduate students studying photonic crystals in departments of electrical engineering, applied physics and mathematics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 72g
• ISBN-13: 9780521513289
• ISBN-10: 0521513286
• Artikelnr.: 24928427

Autorenporträt

Maksim Skorobogatiy is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Photonic Crystals at the Department of Engineering Physics at École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada. In 2005 he was awarded a fellowship from the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, and he is a member of the Optical Society of America.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Hamiltonian formulation of Maxwell's equations (frequency consideration)
3. 1D Photonic crystals - multilayer stacks
4. Bandgap guidance in the planar photonic crystal waveguides
5. Hamiltonian formuation of Maxwell equations for waveguides (propagation constant consideration)
6. 2D photonic crystals
7. Quasi-2D photonic crystals
8. Nonlinear effects and gap-solution formation in periodic media
9. Problem solution.