Photonics

Leonard Dobrzyński is Emeritus Research Professor at CNRS, Lille University, France. His research interests focus on interface science, phononics, magnonics, and resonance.Abdellatif Akjouj is Professor at the University of Lille in France. His scientific activities deal with theory and modelling of wave propagation and elementary excitations in nanostructured materials, more particularly: nanoplasmonics, photonics, magnonics, phononics and optomechanics.El Houssaine El Boudouti is Professor in the Department of Physics at Université Mohammed Premier, Oujda, Morocco. His research interest concerns elementary excitations in composite materials such as phononic, photonic, electronic, and magnonic crystals. Dr. Gaëtan Lévêque is a Professor at the National Center for Scientific Research, Lille University 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. Housni Al-Wahsh is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Head of the Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt. He is primarily interested in the physical properties of electronic, plasmonic and magnonic crystals.Dr. Yan Pennec is a Professor at the National Center for Scientific Research, Lille University 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. Abdelkrim Talbi is a Professor at the University of Lille in France. His research focuses on MEMS and NEMS, metamaterials, and microfluidics. Dr. Bahram Djafari-Rouhani is a Professor at the National Center for Scientific Research, Lille University 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.

• Part One Photonic paths 1 Open loop 2 Closed loop3 Path states4 Open loop examples5 Closed loop examples6 Closed loop and stubs7 Eigenfunction rules 8 General wave perspectivesPart Two Photonic circuits 9 Electromagnetic induced transparency, induced absorption, and Fano resonances in photonic circuits 10 Photonic demultiplexers based on Fano and induced transparency resonances 11 Photonic monomode circuits: comb structures 12 Serial loop structures: photonic bandgaps, confined, cavity, and surface modes13 Fibonacci loop structures: bandgaps, power law, scaling law, confined and surface modes14 One-dimensional photonic waveguide for filtering and demultiplexing15 Silicon nanowires and nanopillars for photovoltaic16 Transmission line photonic crystals: a comparison of Green’s formalism, lumped circuit element model, and finite element methodPart Three Photonic materials 17 Interface response function in layered photonic materials18 Optical Tamm states in semiinfinite layered photonic crystals 19 Optical waves in finite layered photonic crystals 19 Optical waves in finite layered photonic crystals20 Omnidirectional bandgaps and selective transmission in layered photonic crystals 21 Layered photonic crystals with left-handed materials22 Superluminal, negative delay times and selective transmission in isotropic–anisotropic layered media23 Multilayered structures based one dimensional photonic crystals for MEMS applications