Optical Fiber Telecommunications VA, 5th Edition

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Photonic crystal theory: Temporal

coupled-mode formalism

Shanhui Fan

Ginzton Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering,

Stanford, CA, USA

Abstract

Photonic crystal has been of great interest for optical information-processing applica-

tions, in part because it provides a common platform to miniaturize a large number of

optical components on-chip down to single wavelength scale. For this purpose, many

devices are designed starting from a crystal with a photonic band gap, followed by

introducing line and point defect states into the gap. Different functionalities, such as

filters, switches, modulators, delay lines, and buffers, can then be created ...