Photonic Crystals and Light Localization in the 21st Century

Photonic Crystals: Introduction.- Novelties of Light With Photonic Crystals.- 3D Photonic Crystals: From Microwaves to Optical Frequencies.- Tunable Photonic Crystals.- Acoustic Band Gap Materials.- The Finite Difference Time Domain Method for the Study of Two-Dimensional Acoustic and Elastic Band Gap Materials.- Photonic Crystals: Fabrication and Application.- Micro-Fabrication and Nano-Fabrication of Photonic Crystals.- Semiconductor Photonic Crystals.- Light Propagation Characteristics of Defect Waveguides in a Photonic Crystal Slab.- Applications of Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals to Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices.- Patterned Photonic Crystal Waveguides.- Photonic Crystals from Macroporous Silicon.- Characterization of a Three-Dimensional Microwave Photonic Band-Gap Crystal.- One-Dimensional Periodic Structures Under a New Light.- Defect Modes in Quasi-One-Dimensional Photonic Waveguides—Application to the Resonant Tunneling Between Two Continua.- Photonic Crystals: Fabrication by Self Organization.- Experimental Probes of the Optical Properties of Photonic Crystals.- Inverse Opals Fabrication.- The Complete Photonic Band Gap in Inverted Opals: How can we prove it experimentally?.- Manipulating Colloidal Crystallization for Photonic Applications: From Self-Organization To Do-It-Yourself Organization.- Thin Opaline Photonic Crystals.- Manfred Müller, and Rudolf Zentel Tunable Shear-Ordered Face-Centered Cubic Photonic Crystals.- Photonic Crystals: Applications.- Physics and Applications of Photonic Crystals.- Photonic Crystal Fibers: Effective-Index and Band-Gap Guidance.- Applications of Photonic Crystals to Directional Antennas.- Photonic Crystals: Metallic Structures.- Intense Focusing of Light Using Metals.- Left-Handed Metamaterials.- Towards CompletePhotonic Band Gap Structures Below Infrared Wavelengths.- Effect of Moderate Disorder on the Absorbance of Plasma Spheres Distributed in a Host Dielectric Medium.- Random Lasers.- Random Lasers With Coherent Feedback.- Analysis of Random Lasers in Thin Films of ?-Conjugated Polymers.- Theory and Simulations of Random Lasers.- Cavity Approach Towards a Coherent Random Lasers.- Localization of Light.- Propagation of Light in Disordered Semiconductor Materials.- Radiative Transfer of Localized Waves: A Local Diffusion Theory.- Dynamics of Localization in a Waveguide.- From Proximity Resonances to Anderson Localization.- Photonic Crystals and Nonlinearities.- Band-Structure and Transmittance Calculations for Phononic Crystals by the LKKR Method.- Multipole Methods for Photonic Crystal Calculations.- Understanding Some Photonic Band Gap Problems by Using Perturbation.- Tight-binding Wannier Function Method for Photonic Band Gap Materials.- 1, 2, and 3 Dimensional Photonic Materials Made Using Ion Beams: Fabrication and Optical Density-of-States.- Percolation Composites: Localization of Surface Plasmons and Enhanced Optical Nonlinearities.- Quadratic Nonlinear Interactions in 1-Dimensional Photonic Crystals.- Quadratic Nonlinear Interactions in 3-Dimensional Photonic Crystals.- Author Index.