"Photonic Crystals: Introduction, Applications and Theory" ed. by Alessandro Massaro

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.

Photonic crystals are attractive optical materials for controlling and manipulating the flow of light.
In particular, photonic crystals are of great interest for both fundamental and applied research, and the two dimensional ones are beginning to find commercial applications such as optical logic devices, micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), sensors.
The first commercial products involving two-dimensionally periodic photonic crystals are already available in the form of photonic-crystal fibers, which use a microscale structure to confine light with radically different characteristics compared to conventional optical fiber for applications in nonlinear devices and guiding wavelengths.

Contents
Preface
Part 1 Introduction to Photonic Crystals
1 How Nature Produces Blue Color
2 Basics of the Photonic Crystal Gratings
3 Resonant Guided Wave Networks
Part 2 Photonic Crystals and Applications
4 Optical Logic Devices Based on Photonic Crystal
5 MEMS Based Deep 1D Photonic Crystal
6 Photonic Crystal Waveguides and Bio-Sensors
7 EIT-Based Photonic Crystals and Photonic Logic Gate Design
Part 3 Photonic Crystal Fiber
8 Photonic Crystal Fibre Interferometer for Humidity Sensing
9 Arc Fusion Splicing of Photonic Crystal Fibres
10 Optical Solitons from a Photonic Crystal Fiber and Their Applications
11 Long-Period Gratings Based on Photonics Crystal Fibers and Their Applications
12 Multi-Wavelength Photonic Crystal Fiber Laser
Part 4 Design and Modeling
13 Overview of Computational Methods for Photonic Crystals
14 Coupled Mode Theory of Photonic Crystal Lasers
15 Fourier Factorization in the Plane Wave Expansion Method in Modeling Photonic Crystals