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Phys. Rev. B 44, 13772–13774 (1991)

Photonic bound states in periodic dielectric materials

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Robert D. Meade, Karl D. Brommer, Andrew M. Rappe, and J. D. Joannopoulos
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Received 18 September 1991; published in the issue dated 15 December 1991

It is demonstrated that lattice imperfections in a periodic array of dielectric material can give rise to fully localized electromagnetic states. Calculations are performed by using a plane-wave expansion to solve Maxwell’s equations. The frequency of these localized states is tunable by varying the size of the defect. Potential device applications in the microwave and millimeter wave regime are proposed.

© 1991 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.44.13772
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.44.13772
PACS:
41.10.Hv, 85.50.Gt, 07.60.Ly