All you wanted to know about photonic crystals but were afraid to ask

Journal club talk by Wah-Tung Lau on July 22, 2010

The slides can be found here.

References:
[1] S. John, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58 2486 (1987).
[2] S. John, "Localization of Light", Physics Today 44 32 (May 1991).
[3] S. Fan et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 3294 (1997).
[4] S. Johnson et. al., Optic Express 9 748 (2001).
[5] W. T. Lau et. al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 92 103106 (2008).
[6] Experiments: Prof. S. G. Johnson's slides at
http://ab-initio.mit.edu/photons/tutorial/L3-fab.pdf