Nano Optoelectronic Sensors and Devices

Chapter 10. Design of Photonic Crystal Waveguides

Jianyong Lou^*, Carmen Kar Man Fung^†, King Wai Chiu Lai^**, Chen Hongzhi^**, Ning Xi^** and Zhengfang Zhou^††

^*The State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

^†Hong Kong Productivity Council, Hong Kong

^**Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, Michigan

^††Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, Michigan

Chapter Outline

10.1 Introduction 163

10.2 Review of the Photonic Crystal 164

10.3 Principle for Photonic Crystal 165

10.4 Phototonic Band Gap of Photonic Crystal 166

10.4.1 Effect from Dielectric Constants 167

10.4.2 Effect from Different Structures 168

10.5 Photonic Crystal Cavity 173

10.5.1 Basic Design of ...