Table Of ContentPHOTONIC CRYSTALS –
INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS,
LASERS AND WAVEGUIDES
Edited by Alessandro Massaro
Photonic Crystals – Innovative Systems, Lasers and Waveguides
Edited by Alessandro Massaro
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Contents
Preface IX
Part 1 Photonic Crystal Laser and
Photonic Crystal Characterization 1
Chapter 1 Angular-Resolved Optical Characteristics and
Threshold Gain Analysis of GaN-Based 2-D
Photonics Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers 3
Shih-Wei Chen, Tien-Chang Lu, Ting-Chun Liu,
Peng-Hsiang Weng, Hao-Chung Kuo and
Shing-Chung Wang
Chapter 2 980nm Photonic Microcavity Vertical
Cavity Surface Emitting Laser 21
Yongqiang Ning and Guangyu Liu
Chapter 3 Dynamic All Optical Slow Light
Tunability by Using Nonlinear One
Dimensional Coupled Cavity Waveguides 31
Alireza Bananej, S. Morteza Zahedi, S. M. Hamidi,
Amir Hassanpour and S. Amiri
Chapter 4 The Optical Transmission of
One-Dimensional Photonic Crystals
Containing Double-Negative Materials 41
Petcu Andreea Cristina
Chapter 5 Mid-Infrared Surface-Emitting Two Dimensional
Photonic Crystal Semiconductor Lasers 65
Binbin Weng and Zhisheng Shi
Part 2 Innovative Materials and Systems 79
Chapter 6 A Novel Compact Photonic Crystal Fibre Surface Plasmon
Resonance Biosensor for an Aqueous Environment 81
Emmanuel K. Akowuah, Terry Gorman, Huseyin Ademgil,
Shyqyri Haxha, Gary Robinson and Jenny Oliver
VI Contents
Chapter 7 On the Applicability of Photonic Crystal
Membranes to Multi-Channel Propagation 97
Bartłomiej Salski, Kamila Leśniewska-Matys
and Paweł Szczepański
Chapter 8 Employing Optical Nonlinearity in Photonic Crystals:
A Step Towards All-Optical Logic Gates 123
Mohammad Danaie and Hassan Kaatuzian
Chapter 9 Thin Chalcogenide Films for Photonic Applications 143
Rossen Todorov, Jordanka Tasseva and Tsvetanka Babeva
Chapter 10 Ultra-Broadband Time-Resolved Coherent Anti-Stokes
Raman Scattering Spectroscopy and Microscopy with
Photonic Crystal Fiber Generated Supercontinuum 169
Hanben Niu and Jun Yin
Part 3 Photonic Crystal Waveguides and Plasmonics 207
Chapter 11 Photonic Crystal Coupled to N-V Center in Diamond 209
Luca Marseglia
Chapter 12 Label-Free Biosensing Using
Photonic Crystal Waveguides 235
Jaime García-Rupérez, Veronica Toccafondo
and Javier García Castelló
Chapter 13 Photonic Crystals for Plasmonics:
From Fundamentals to Superhydrophobic Devices 257
Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Anisha Gopalakrishnan, Gobind Das,
Francesco Gentile, Ali Haddadpour, Andrea Toma,
Francesco De Angelis, Carlo Liberale, Federico Mecarini,
Luca Razzari, Andrea Giugni, Roman Krahne and
Enzo Di Fabrizio
Chapter 14 Plasma Photonic Crystal 281
Rajneesh Kumar
Chapter 15 Photonic Crystal for Polarization Rotation 295
Bayat and Baroughi
Chapter 16 Negative Index Photonic Crystals
Superlattices and Zero Phase Delay Lines 327
C. W. Wong, S. Kocaman, M. S. Aras, P. Hsieh, J. F. McMillan,
C. G. Biris, N. C. Panoiu, M. B. Yu, D. L. Kwong and A. Stein
Preface
The book is oriented on topics concerning innovative materials, photonic crystal
waveguides and lasers including plasmonics, technological aspects and geometrical
layouts. Photonic crystal waveguides are considered one of the main applications of
two-dimensional (2-D) photonic crystals. They have received significant attention,
both experimentally and theoretically. In particular, 2-D photonic crystal lasers,
potentially have great practical applications in the mid-IR region due to their unique
features in, for example, surface emission, circular beams, low threshold operation,
miniaturization and simplicity of on-chip monolithic integration, etc. Furthermore,
innovative materials and plasmonic photonic crystals have recently been the focus of
intense study for different applications. The goal of this book is to provide an
overview about different implementations of photonic crystals.
This book is structured into three main sections:
1. Photonic crystal laser and photonic crystal characterization. The topics discussed in
this section are oriented on different photonic crystal properties and
configurations. In particular GaN-based 2-D photonics crystal, photonic
microcavity vertical cavity surface emitting laser, nonlinear coupled cavity
waveguides, double negative materials and semiconductor lasers are discussed.
2. Innovative Materials and Systems. This section introduces innovative materials and
systems such as biosensing system for aqueous environment by means of
photonic crystal fibre, nonlinear and multi channel systems, silicon and
chalcogenide photonic crystals, and spectroscopy systems. The goal of this section
is to show the broad range of applications of photonic crystal systems.
3. Photonic crystal waveguides and plasmonics. Different kind of photonic crystal
layouts are studied in this section. Issues such as polarization behaviour, label-
free optical biosensing, and plasmonics are discussed in order to provide a
complete overview concerning photonic crystal waveguiding properties.
Dr. Eng. Alessandro Massaro
Italian Institute of Technology IIT, Center of Bio-Molecular Nanotechnology
Italy
