Includes bibliographical references and index.

Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Layered Structures in 1D / M. Bertolotti -- Plane-Wave Analysis for Photonic Band Gap Structures / J. W. Haus -- Manipulating Light with Photonic Crystals / S. Fan, A. Mekis and S. G. Johnson / [et al.] -- Solving Present and Future Problems in Optical Telecommunications with PBGs / M. Marciniak -- Photonic Crystals for Integrated Optics / T. F. Krauss -- Applicability of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method to Photonic Crystal Structures / R. M. de Ridder and R. Stoffer -- Planar Photonic Crystal / D. Nedeljkovic, T. P. Pearsall and S. A. Kuchinsky / [et al.] -- Autocloning Technology: Fabrication Method for Photonic Crystals Based on Sputtering Process / T. Kawashima, T. Sato and K. Miura / [et al.] -- Exploring the Optical Properties of Holey Fibres / T. M. Monro, N. G. Broderick and D. J. Richardson -- Nonlinear Optics in Mesoscopic and Composite Materials / C. Flytzanis -- Optical Properties of Nanocrystals and Their Assemblies / S. V. Gaponenko -- Quantum Dot Lasers: Theory and Experiment / D. Bimberg, M. Grundmann and F. Heinrichsdorff / [et al.] -- Physics and Devices with Semiconductor Microcavities / R. Houdre, R. P. Stanley and U. Oesterle / [et al.] -- Optical Properties of Quasipheriodic (Fractals) One-Dimensional Structures / C. Sibilia -- Fractal Nano-Composites: Giant Local-Field Enhancement of Optical Responses / V. M. Shalaev -- Controlling Light Pulses and Light Beams with Photonic Band-Gap Structures / A. M. Zheltikov -- The Method of Multiple Scales Applied to Photonic Band Gap Structures / J. W. Haus -- Propagation Effects near the Photonic Band Edge / M. Scalora -- Linear Properties of Finite Photonic Band Gap Structures: Group Velocity, Energy Velocity, and Effective Dispersion Relations / G. D'Aguanno --

Second Harmonic Generation in Photonic Crystals and Nonlinear Reflection in Microcavities / J. Martorell, R. Vilaseca and J. Trull / [et al.] -- Photonic Crystals for Frequency Conversion Phase Matching / V. Berger -- Parametric Effects in One-Dimensional Photonic Band Gap Structures / M. Centini -- Simulation of Pulsed Optical Logic Gates Based on Photonic Band Gap Structures / I. Nefedov, Y. Morozov and V. Gusyatnikov / [et al.] -- Light Localization and Channeling of Atoms in Photonic Crystals / A. V. Tarasishin, S. A. Magnitskii and V. A. Shuvaev / [et al.] -- Polarization Behavior of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers: Experiments, Models, and Applications / K. Panajotov, J. Danckaert and G. Verschaffelt / [et al.] -- Photonic Crystal Enhancement of Auger-Suppressed Infrared Photodetectors / Z. Djuric, Z. Jaksic and W. Ehrfeld / [et al.] -- Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals: Approaches to Fabrication / R. De La Rue, D. McComb and B. Treble / [et al.].

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