Photonic Crystals: Principles and Applications

Qihuang Gong · Xiaoyong Hu

Feb 2014 · CRC Press

About this ebook

This book provides a broad overview of photonic crystals and, as the title suggests, covers their principles and applications. It is written from a physics point of view with an emphasis on materials science. Equations are well explained and often completely avoided to increase the readability of the book.The book is divided into eight chapters, st

About the author

Qihuang Gong received his BSc and PhD, both in physics, from Peking University, China, in 1983 and 1989, respectively. He is the Cheung Kong Scholar of Peking University, director of State Key Laboratory for Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics, vice dean of the Department of Physics, chief scientist of National 973 Project, and group leader of the Creative research group of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His current research interests are ultrafast optics and spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, and mesoscopic optical devices for applications in optical information processing and communication. He has published more than 300 SCI papers, which have been cited over 2400 times. Winner of several awards, Prof. Gong serves as the topic editor of Optics Letters, advisor editor of Chemical Physics, and associate editor-in-chief of Chinese Physics B, Chinese Optics Letters, Chinese Science Bulletin (in Chinese), Chinese Optics and Applied Optics (in Chinese), Acta Physics Sinica (in Chinese), and Quantum Electronics (in Chinese). He is also an executive council member of the Chinese Optics Society, director of Fundamental Optics Division, and executive council member of the Chinese Physical Society. He has been a member of the IUPAP C17 (Quantum Electronics) Commission, member of the Fellow Committee and the international council of the Optical Society of America (OSA), fellow of the OSA and IoP, and co-chair of the Asian Intense Laser Network.