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The Complete Photonic Band Gap in Inverted Opals: How Can We Prove it Experimentally?

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Photonic Crystals and Light Localization in the 21st Century

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series ((ASIC,volume 563))

Abstract

Ever since a complete photonic band gap was predicted to exist in periodic structures,1,2 experimentalists have been trying to observe this effect at optical frequencies. Much of this effort has focused on fabricating three-dimensionally periodic structures (also called photonic crystals)3 that have the proper symmetry, lattice spacing, refractive index, etc. to obtain a complete band gap.4 Once the correct structure is made, one might imagine that the existence of the band gap will be simple to verify. Unfortunately, this is not necessarily the case. As was shown in the microwave regime, where the photonic band gap was first demonstrated,5,6 such measurements are far from trivial even in near-perfect millimeter-scale structures. Similar measurements in micron-scale optical photonic crystals should be even more challenging. For example, residual disorder will always be present in these structures and will complicate the analysis. Thus, it is useful to ask how one might experimentally verify a band gap in an optical photonic crystal. Here we discuss some aspects of this issue. In particular, we consider potential solutions for photonic crystals made by the so-called self-assembly methods.

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Norris, D.J., Vlasov, Y.A. (2001). The Complete Photonic Band Gap in Inverted Opals: How Can We Prove it Experimentally?. In: Soukoulis, C.M. (eds) Photonic Crystals and Light Localization in the 21st Century. NATO Science Series, vol 563. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0738-2_17

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