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It is now widely recognised that a volume of dielectric material with an appropriately designed periodic microstructure — a photonic crystal — will support a full three-dimensional photonic band gap (PBG) [1]. Over the frequency range spanned by the PBG, all electromagnetic modes are suppressed within the volume, allowing a single resonance (or photonic state) to be introduced by means of a structural point defect [2]. This unique ability to tamper strongly with the electromagnetic mode density enables the channelling of spontaneous emission into one or a few electromagnetic modes, and is attractive for enhancing the emission rate from light emitting diodes, and in achieving low threshold highly efficient operation in micro-cavity lasers [3].
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Russell, P.S.J., Atkin, D.M., Birks, T.A., Roberts, P.J. (1996). Bound Modes of Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Waveguides. In: Rarity, J., Weisbuch, C. (eds) Microcavities and Photonic Bandgaps: Physics and Applications. NATO ASI Series, vol 324. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0313-5_18
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