A Bloch mode theory for diffraction of plane waves by planar PC slabs is developed. The theory provides physical insight into the origin of Fano resonances, allowing a simple pole model to be deduced rigorously.

Moderately and heavily Mg-doped GaN were studied by a combination of post-growth annealing processes and electron beam irradiation techniques during cathodoluminescence (CL) to elucidate the chemical origin of the ...

Scanning tunneling microscopy measurements of tunneling through molecules adsorbed on a surface have been simulated using a standard empirical model based upon the Wentzel-Kramer-Brillouin method applied to tunneling through ...

Flexible polymer light guides doped with special micro-spheres to combine light leakage and long distance transport are described optically using a simple light distribution model. A constant angular profile of light ...

When a beam of light is incident on a translucent sample, a significant fraction of the light is scattered at high angles. Some of this scattered light may be trapped inside the substrate through multiple reflections ...

Metallic nanowire arrays are created by pumping molten metal into the hollow channels of silica glass PCF. Measurements show that, at certain wavelengths, the core-guided light couples to leaky surface plasmon modes on the ...

A rigorous approach is developed for guiding and coupling in complex microstructured waveguides embedded in photonic crystals. The method, based on Bloch modes and generalized Fresnel coefficients, is applied to ...

We demonstrate the existence of a class of defects in 2D photonic crystals, for which the eigenstates depend only on the defect geometry, and not on details Re photonic crystal parameters or defect size.