Nanophotonic materials: photonic crystals, plasmonics, and metamaterials

Stimulated by the pioneering work of Sajeev John and Eli Yablonovitsch, German research groups started with theoretical and experimental work on 2D and 3D photonics crystals in the early 1990s. This initial work was the basis for a research project focussing on photonic crystals and funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) in 1999. During the last seven years, a consortium consisting of more than 20 German research groups concentrated on photonics crystals research."Nanophotonic Materials - Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics, and Metameterials" summarizes the work and research results of these groups. Research started with linear, non-dispersive properties of purely dielectric 2D and 3D photonic crystals and progressed to non-linear and dispersive properties of dielectric photonic crystals including gain and/or losses. These properties where studied on different materials systems such as silicon, III-V-compound semiconductors, oxides and polymers, as well as hybrid systems consisting of dielectric photonic crystals and liquid crystals. Applications of these systems were developed in the area of active photonic crystal fibres, functional optical components, and sensors. Some of these have by now even entered into industrial applications. INDICE: Preface.List of Contributors.I Linear and Non-linear Properties ofPhotonic Crystals.1 Solitary Wave Formation in One-dimensional Photonic Crystals (Sabine Essig, Jens Niegemann, Lasha Tkeshelashvili, and Kurt Busch).1.1 Introduction.1.2 Variational Approach to the NLCME.1.3 Radiation Losses.1.4 Results.1.5 Conclusions and Outlook.References.2 Microscopic Analysis of the Optical and Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Photonic-Crystal Structures (Bernhard Pasenow, Matthias Reichelt, Tineke Stroucken, Torsten Meier, and Stephan W. Koch).2.1 Introduction.2.2 Theoretical Approach.2.3 Numerical Results.2.4Summary.References.3 Functional 3D Photonic Films from Polymer Beads (Birger Lange, Friederike Fleischhaker, and Rudolf Zentel).3.1 Introduction.3.2 Opals as Coloring Agents.3.3 Loading of Opals with Highly Fluorescent Dyes.3.4 New Properties Through Replication.3.5 Defect Incorporation into Opals.References.4Bloch Modes and Group Velocity Delay in Coupled Resonator Chains (Bjorn M. Moller, Mikhail V. Artemyev, and Ulrike Woggon).4.1 Introduction.4.2 Experiment.4.3 Coherent Cavity Field Coupling in One-Dimensional CROWs.4.4 Mode Structurein Finite CROWs.4.5 Slowing Down Light in CROWs.4.6 Disorder and Detuning in CROWs.4.7 Summary.References.5 Coupled Nanopillar Waveguides: Optical Properties and Applications (Dmitry N. Chigrin, Sergei V. Zhukovsky, Andrei V. Lavrinenko, and Johann Kroha).5.1 Introduction.5.2 Dispersion Engineering.5.3 Transmission Efficiency.5.4 Aperiodic Nanopillar Waveguides.5.5 Applications.5.6 Conclusion.References.6 Investigations on the Generation of Photonic Crystals using Two-Photon Polymerization (2PP) of Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Polymers with Ultra-Short Laser Pulses (R. Houbertz, P. Declerck, S. Passinger, A. Ovsianikov,J. Serbin, and B.N. Chichkov).6.1 Introduction.6.2 High-Refractive Index Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Polymers.6.3 Multi-Photon Fabrication.6.4 Summary and Outlook.References.7 Ultra-low Refractive Index Mesoporous Substrates for Waveguide Structures (D. Konjhodzic, S. Schroter, and F. Marlow).7.1 Introduction.7.2Mesoporous Films.7.3 MSFs as Substrates for Waveguide Structures.7.4 Conclusions.References.8 Linear and Nonlinear Effects of Light Propagation inLow-indexPhotonic Crystal Slabs (R. Iliew, C. Etrich, M. Augustin, E.-B. Kley, S. Nolte, A. Tunnermann, and F. Lederer).8.1 Introduction.8.2 Fabrication of PhotonicCrystal Slabs.8.3 Linear Properties of Photonic Crystal Slabs.8.4 Light Propagation in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals.8.5 Conclusion.References.9 Linear and Non-linear Optical Experiments Based on Macroporous Silicon Photonic Crystals (Ralf B. Wehrspohn, Stefan L. Schweizer, and Vahid Sandoghdar).9.1 Introduction.9.2 Fabrication of 2D Photonic Crystals.9.3 Defects in 2D Macroporous SiliconPhotonic Crystals.9.4 Internal Emitter.9.5 Tunability of Silicon Photonic Crystals.9.6 Summary.References.10 Dispersive Properties of Photonic Crystal Waveguide Resonators (T. Sunner, M. Gellner, M. Scholz, A. Loffler, M. Kamp, and A. Forchel)10.1 Introduction.10.2 Design and Fabrication.10.3 Transmission Measurements.10.4 Dispersion Measurements.10.5 Analysis.10.6 Postfabrication Tuning.10.7 Conclusion.References.II Tuneable Photonic Crystals.11 Polymer Based Tuneable Photonic Crystals (J.H. Wulbern, M. Schmidt, U. Hubner, R. Boucher, W. Volksen, Y. Lu, R. Zentel, and M. Eich).11.1 Introduction.11.2 Preparation of Photonic Crystal Structures in Polymer Waveguide Material.11.3 Realization andCharacterization of Electro-Optically Tuneable Photonic Crystals.11.4 Synthesis of Electro-Optically Active Polymers.11.5 Conclusions and Outlook.References.12 Tuneable Photonic Crystals obtained by Liquid Crystal Infiltration (H.-S.Kitzerow, A. Lorenz, and H. Matthias).12.1 Introduction.12.2 Experimental Results.12.4 Conclusions.References.13 Lasing in Dye-doped Chiral Liquid Crystals: Influence of Defect Modes (Wolfgang Haase, Fedor Podgornov, Yuko Matsuhisa, and Masanori Ozaki)13.1 Introduction.13.2 Experiment.References.14 Photonic Crystals based on Chiral Liquid Crystal (M. Ozaki, Y. Matsuhisa, H. Yoshida, R. Ozaki, and A. Fujii)14.1 Introduction.14.2 Photonic Band Gap and Band Edge Lasing in Chiral Liquid Crystal.14.3 Twist Defect Mode in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal.14.4 Chiral Defect Mode Induced by Partial Deformation of Helix.14.5 Tunable Defect Mode Lasing in a Periodic Structure Containing CLC Layer as a Defect.14.6 Summary.References.15 Tunable Superprism Effect in Photonic Crystals (F.Glockler, S. Peters, U. Lemmer, and M. Gerken)15.1 Introduction.15.2 The Superprism Effect.15.3 Tunable Photonic Crystals.15.4 Tunable Superprism Structures.15.5 1D Hybrid Organic-Anorganic Structures.15.6 Conclusions and Outlook.References.III Photonic Crystal Fibres.16 Preparation and Application of Functionalized Photonic Crystal Fibres (H. Bartelt, J. Kirchhof, J. Kobelke, K. Schuster, A. Schwuchow, K. Morl, U. Ropke, J. Leppert, H. Lehmann, S. Smolka, M. Barth, O. Benson, S. Taccheo, and C. D. Andrea).16.1 Introduction.16.2 General Preparation Techniques for PCFs.16.3 Silica-Based PCFs with Index Guiding.16.3.4Highly Germanium-Doped Index Guiding PCF.16.4 Photonic Band Gap Fibres.16.5 Non-Silica PCF.16.6 Selected Linear and Nonlinear Applications.16.7 Conclusions.References.17 Finite Element Simulation of Radiation Losses in Photonic Crystal Fibers (Jan Pomplun, Lin Zschiedrich, Roland Klose, Frank Schmidt, and SvenBurger).17.1 Introduction.17.2 Formulation of Propagation Mode Problem.17.3 Discretization of Maxwell.s Equations with the Finite Element Method.17.4 Computation of Leaky Modes in Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers.17.5 Goal Oriented Error Estimator.17.6 Convergence of Eigenvalues Using Different Error Estimators.17.7 Optimization of HCPCF Design.17.8 Kagome-Structured Fibers.17.9 Conclusion.References.IV Plasmonic and Metamaterials.18 Optical Properties of Photonic/Plasmonic Structures in Nanocomposite Glass (H. Graener, A. Abdolvand, S.Wackerow, O. Kiriyenko, and W. Hergert).18.1 Introduction.18.2 Experimental Investigations.18.3 Calculation of Effective Permittivity.18.3.1 Extensions of the Method.18.4 Summary.References.19 Optical Properties of Disordered Metallic Photonic Crystal Slabs (D. Nau, A. Schonhardt, A. Christ, T. Zentgraf, Ch. Bauer, J. Kuhl, and H. Giessen).19.1 Introduction.19.2 Sample Description and Disorder Models.19.3 Transmission Properties.19.4 Bandstructure.19.5 Conclusion.References.20 Superfocusing of Optical Beams Below the Diffraction Limit by Media with Negative Refraction (A. Husakou and J. Herrmann).20.1 Introduction.20.2 Superfocusing of a Non-Moving Beam by the Combined Action of an Aperture and a Negative-Index Layer.20.3 Focusing of Scanning Light Beams Below the Diffraction Limit Using a Saturable Absorber and a Negative-Refraction Material.20.4 Subdiffraction Focusing of Scanning Beams by a Negative-Refraction Layer Combined with a Nonlinear Kerr-Type Layer.20.5 Conclusion.References.21 NegativeRefraction in 2D Photonic Crystal Super-Lattice: Towards Devices in the IR and Visible Ranges (Y. Neve-Oz, M. Golosovsky, A. Frenkel, and D. Davidov).21.1 Introduction.21.2 Design.21.3 Simulations, Results and Discussion.21.4 Conclusions and Future Directions.References.22 Negative Permeability around 630 nm in Nanofabricated Vertical Meander Metamaterials (Heinz Schweizer, Liwei Fu, Hedwig Grabeldinger, Hongcang Guo, Na Liu, Stefan Kaiser, and Harald Giessen).22.1 Introduction.22.2 Theoretical Approach.22.3 Experimental Approaches.22.4 Conclusion.References.Index.

• ISBN: 978-3-527-40858-0
• Editorial: Wiley-VCH
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• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2008
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