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Photonic crystals and metamaterials

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 653-0952/01
Abbreviation FKM
Course title Photonic crystals and metamaterials
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Mgr. Kamil Postava

Subject syllabus

1. Maxwell theory, periodic system – description of material properties, propagation of plane waves
Bloch theorem, boundary conditions in periodic structures, periodic multilayer system, matrix description, 2D and 3D periodic systems
2. Photonic periodic structures – photonic crystal, analogy with solid state crystals, band diagram
2D photonic crystalsy, complete forbiden bangap, 3D photonic crystals cavity in photonic crystals
3. Metamaterials – effective medium theory, basic approxinmation for description of spherical particles, generalized effective medium theories – anisotropic medium, special anisotropic metamaterials, chiral metamaterials, phase effects
4. Recent and potencial future applications of photonic crystals and metamaterials - preparation of photonic crystals and metamaterials, using litography of thin films, self assembled systems
5. Fabry-Perot interference filters and modulators light modulation, waveguides based on photonic crystals, magneto-optical nonreciprocal photonic devices, evanescent waves and ideal image, new materials in optics, anisotropic and chiral materials

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.