I come from a family of Mormons, although perhaps somewhat unorthodox ones. Somewhere in England and what is today Romania, my father's ancestors heard man named Joseph Smith his vision God the Father His Son, Jesus Christ. They left Europe traveled with other devout Saints to Utah, settling Salt Lake City Vernal. Fast forward century or so father still practices Mormonism. I'm certain relation...

We present the interface diffraction method (IDM), an efficient technique to determine the response of planar photonic crystal waveguides and couplers containing arbitrary defects. Field profiles in separate regions of a structure are represented through two contrasting approaches: the plane wave expansion method in the cladding and a scattering matrix method in the core. These results are comb...

Gewidmet ist diese Arbeit meiner Mutter, die leider die Fertigstellung nicht mehr erleben durfte, und Hannah, die auch heute noch Geduld aufbringt, wenn ihre Mutter am Computer für ihre " Schule " arbeitet.