Abstract
Photonic crystals are usually viewed as an optical analog of semiconductors that modify the properties of light similar to a microscopic atomic lattice that creates a semiconductor band-gap for electrons. Nonlinear photonic crystals and photonic crystals with embedded nonlinear defects create an ideal environment for the observation of many of the nonlinear effects earlier predicted and studied in nonlinear guided-wave optics.
© 2003 Optical Society of America
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