• Basics.- to Photonic Crystals and Photonic Band-Gaps.- Physics of Slow Bloch Modes and Their Applications.- Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystals.- Quasi Phase Matching in Two-Dimensional Quadratic Nonlinear Photonic Crystals.- Harmonic Generation in Nanostructures: Metal Nanoparticles and Photonic Crystals.- Ultra-fast Optical Reconfiguration via Nonlinear Effects in Semiconductor Photonic Crystals.- Nonlinear Optics with Photonic-Crystal Fibres.- Technology, Integration an Active Photonic Crystals.- Photonic Crystal and Photonic Band-Gap Structures for Light Extraction and Emission Control.- Silicon-Based Photonic Crystals and Nanowires.- Characterisation and Measurements of Nanostructures.- Near Infrared Optical Characterization Techniques for Photonic Crystals.- Characterization Techniques for Planar Optical Microresonators.- On SNOM Resolution Improvement.- Simulation Techniques.- Photonic Crystals: Simulation Successes and some Remaining Challenges.- Plane-Wave Admittance Methodand its Applications to Modelling Photonic Crystal Structures.

From the reviews: "The book begins by explaining the basics of photonic crystals using the framework of quantum mechanics on periodic structures, well known as Bloch modes, in all dimensions of the actual crystals. ... This work also provides a useful update for photonics and laser professionals/researchers on photonic band-gap devices as fundamental devices for future laser nanotechnology applications. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections." (G. J. Fochesatto, Choice, Vol. 47 (4), December, 2009)