silicon chip [61]. The general concept of introducing dynamics into photonic
crystal systems could also be very promising for creating new optical signal-
processing functionalities far beyond the capabilities of static systems.
12.5 CONCLUDING REMARKS
In this chapter, we provide a brief review of the basis of the temporal coupled-mode
theory, as well as its applications in nonlinear and dynamic photonic crystals,
drawing examples from our own recent work in this area. These developments
highlight two general trends in the theoretical work in this field. On one hand, using
computational electromagnetic techniques such as the FDTD methods [50] in
combination with modern large-scale computing architectures, almost any complex
optical processes in photonic ...