The courses includes optics of periodic systems, effects in photonic crystals, band gap, effects of cavities. It is based on Maxwell theory of electromagnetic field in periodic structures in analogy with description of electron states in periodic crystals. Description includes periodic multilayer system (1D photonic crystal), two-dimensional, and three-dimensional periodic systems. Second part of the courses consists description using effective medium theory of periodic and aperiodic heterogeneous materials, that exhibit unusual optical properties. Description is focused on metamaterials – effective materials with negative refractive index, special optical anisotropy, chirality, and special spectral and polarization properties.
Literature
J.M. Lourtioz, H. Benisty, V. Berger, J.-M. Gerard, D. Maystre, A. Tchelnokov, Photonic Crystals: Towards Nanoscale Photonic Devices, Springer 2005
J.D. Joannopoulos, R.D. Meade, J.N. Winn, Photonic crystals: Molding the flow of light, Princeton University Press 1995
K. Inoue, K. Ohtaka (Eds.), Photonic Crystals: Physics, fabrication and applications, Springer 2004
V.M. Shalaev, Optical properties of nanostructured and random media, Springer 2002
A.K. Sarychev, V.M. Electrodynamics of Metamaterials, World Scientific 2007
Advised literature
články v odborných mezinárodních časopisech Opt. Express, Nature Photonics, J. Phot. Nanotsr. etc.
papers in international journals Opt. Express, Nature Photonics, J. Phot. Nanotsr. etc.