Waveguiding at the Edge of a Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystal

We find that electromagnetic waves can be guided at the edge of a three-dimensional photonic crystal in air. When the waveguide is defined by the intersection of two surface planes, the edge modes are associated with the corresponding surface bands. A simple cell counting approach is presented to de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Joannopoulos, John D., Lu, Ling, Soljacic, Marin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72455
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7184-5831
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7244-3682