Spontaneous emission and nonlinear effects in photonic bandgap materials

We summarize and review our theoretical and experimental work on spontaneous emission and nonlinear effects in one-dimensional, photonic bandgap (PBG) structures. We present a new result: a method for calculating the normal-mode solutions—and hence the spontaneous emission of embedded emitters—in an arbitrary, linear, lossless, one-dimensional, PBG structure.

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