Pr. Villeneuve et al., MICROCAVITIES IN PHOTONIC CRYSTALS - MODE SYMMETRY, TUNABILITY, AND COUPLING EFFICIENCY, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 54(11), 1996, pp. 7837-7842
We investigate the properties of resonant modes which arise from the i
ntroduction of local defects in two-dimensional (2D) and 3D photonic c
rystals. We show that the properties of these modes can be controlled
by simply changing the nature and size of the defects. We compute the
frequency, polarization, symmetry, and field distribution of the reson
ant modes by solving Maxwell's equations in the frequency domain. The
dynamic behavior of the modes is determined by using a finite-differen
ce time-domain method which allows us to compute the coupling efficien
cy and the losses in the microcavity.