Experiments are described on the prism-coupled excitation of surface electromagnetic waves in one-dimensional photonic band-gap arrays. The low loss of photonic band-gap materials leads to narrow angular reflectivity resonances and high surface fields. These attributes, coupled with the ability to engineer the optical properties of photonic band-gap arrays, suggest these materials as powerful r...

It is suggested that an exciton in the engineered vacuum of a photonic-band-gap-quantum-well heterostructure exhibits electromagnetically induced anomalous quantum dynamics. The exciton is dressed by coherent emission and reabsorption of virtual photons near the photonic band edge and captured in momentum space, lowering its energy by 1-10 meV and lowering its effective mass by 4-5 orders of ma...

We study the photonic band structure of cubic crystals of point dipoles. It is shown that in contrast to earlier claims these systems cannot have an omnidirectional photonic band gap. For sufficiently large plasma frequencies, however, they exhibit softening of photonic bands, leading to (anti)ferroelectric ordering of the dipoles and the possibility to open and tune directional band gaps by ex...

The superprism phenomenon is the extremely large angular dispersion experienced by a light beam when entering a photonic crystal. This arises from the anisotropy of the photonic band structure. Strong anisotropy can be present even in systems without a complete photonic band gap. Here, we describe a theoretical investigation of the superprism effect in three-dimensional macroporous polymer phot...

We use evolutionary algorithms to design photonic crystal structures with large band gaps. Starting from randomly generated photonic crystals, the algorithm yielded a photonic crystal with a band gap sdefined as the gap to midgap ratiod as large as 0.3189. This band gap is an improvement of 12.5% over the best human design using the same index contrast platform. © 2005 American Institute of Phy...

We report a hybrid approach for photonic systems that combines chemically synthesized single nanowire emitters with lithographically defined photonic crystal and racetrack microresonator structures. Finite-difference time-domain calculations were used to design nanowire photonic crystal structures where the photonic band gap overlaps the electronic band gap of the nanowire. Photoluminescence (P...

In this paper, using annular resonator we have designed an adding and dropping filter light based ontwo-dimensional photonic crystals. The shape of ring resonator filter adding and dropping that wehave proposed is Race Track. This filter has a hexagonal lattice structure of silicon bars withrefractive index 3/46 that is located in the context of air with refractive index 1. Transmissionefficien...

Using numerical simulations, we demonstrate the construction of two-dimensional~2D-! like defect modes in a recently proposed 3D photonic crystal structure. These modes, which are confined in all three dimensions by a complete photonic band gap, bear a striking similarity to those in 2D photonic crystals in terms of polarization, field profile, and projected band structures. It is expected that...

We demonstrate for the first time the ability to perform time resolved imaging of terahertz (THz) waves propagating within a photonic crystal (PhC) slab. For photonic lattices with different orientations and symmetries, we used the electrooptic effect to record the full spatiotemporal evolution of THz fields across a broad spectral range spanning the photonic band gap. In addition to revealing ...