What are photonic crystals ?

Photonic crystals are periodically patterned dielectric materials which strongly modify the propagation of electromagnetic radiations.

This paragraph will deal about the following topics :

back to basics : what you ought to know about photonic crystals
applications in the microwave and optical regimes
achievements : what has been done here and elsewhere
more : links to the photonic crystal community (see below)

Favourites

Ultimate collection of PBG links (Vlasov)

QESSL California Institut of Technology (Yariv)

Caltech Nanofabrication Group (Scherer)

University of Saint Andrews (Krauss)

University of Glasgow (DeLaRue)

The photonic crystal group at EPFL (Houdré)

UCLA (Yablonovitch)

MIT (Joannopoulos)

Ames Laboratory (Soukoulis)

Sandia Lab (Lin)

Université de Montpellier (Jouanin)