… The dip in transmission centered on 4.5 µm is due to the main photonic stop gap of the
woodpile photonic crystal lattice and agrees well with our calculations [Fig. 2(b)]. The striking …

… We propose a hybrid optical nanocavity consisting of photonic crystals coupled to a metal
surface with a nanoscale air gap between. The hybridization of photonic crystal modes and …

… defect mode created by inserting a layer of liquid crystals into … properties of the so-called
photonic crystals (PCs) which are … electromagnetic stop bands or photonic band gaps (PBGs). …

… on a single dielectric cylinder with the same geometry and material, where the Mie resonance
modes show similar internal fields with the respective eigenmodes for the photonic crystal. …

… photonic crystal (… gaps are discussed. Moreover, the effect of a nonlinear defect layer
introduced into the proposed structure is also analyzed, and the results show that the defect mode …

… First, we consider the dispersion curve for the waveguide modes. … mode-gap edge ( ge),
from which light propagation is inhibited. Experimentally, we can easily determine the modegap …

… modes in two-dimensional photonic crystal PC band gaps … the degeneracy of a defect mode
in a PC band gap. We show that … symmetry of the defect modes. We confirm our analysis by …

… a [1], giving rise to a mini-gap. As an example, Fig. 2(b) shows the local picture of the mini-gap
associated to the coupling between mode #1 and mode #5, whose magnetic field patterns …

… The size of absolute band gaps in two-dimensional photonic crystals is often … Photonic
crystals are most valuable when they possess an absolute band gap, where propagating modes …

… We present a two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystal structure exhibiting appealing guiding
… a variant from a 2D square photonic crystal and shows a large photonic band gap for on-axis …