Photonic Crystals
Photonic bandgap crystals serve as a microcosm of the photonics industry: Although microscopic in structure, their versatility in manipulating photons could have a huge and pervasive impact on nearly all optical components and instrumentation, enabling new generations of tunable filters, low-loss waveguides, microlasers, all-optical switches and integrated circuits.The photonic bandgap these crystals create has uses similar to an electronic bandgap, particularly if the crystal structure has a...
Photonics Spectra, June 2002