Theory of Photonic Band Gap

For the fist time theory of photonic band gap was developed at the papers of Yablonovich and John:

• E. Yablonovitch ``Inhibited Spontaneous Emission in Solid-State Physics and Electronics'', Phys. Rev. Lett., 58 20 (1987).
• S. John ``Strong Localization of Photons in Certain Disordered Dielectric Superlattices'', Phys. Rev. Lett., 58 23 (1987).

Contens:

1. Photon propagation in the periodic systems.
2. 1D System. Dispersion Low. Band Gap.
3. 1D System. On-axis and Off axis Propagation.
4. Defects and localized modes.