TY - CHAP AU - Emmanuel K. Akowuah AU - Terry Gorman AU - Huseyin Ademgil AU - Shyqyri Haxha AU - Gary Robinson AU - Jenny Oliver ED - Alessandro Massaro Y1 - 2012-03-30 PY - 2012 T1 - A Novel Compact Photonic Crystal Fibre Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor for an Aqueous Environment N2 - The second volume of the book concerns the characterization approach of photonic crystals, photonic crystal lasers, photonic crystal waveguides and plasmonics including the introduction of innovative systems and materials. Photonic crystal materials promises to enable all-optical computer circuits and could also be used to make ultra low-power light sources. Researchers have studied lasers from microscopic cavities in photonic crystals that act as reflectors to intensify the collisions between photons and atoms that lead to lazing, but these lasers have been optically-pumped, meaning they are driven by other lasers. Moreover, the physical principles behind the phenomenon of slow light in photonic crystal waveguides, as well as their practical limitations, are discussed. This includes the nature of slow light propagation, its bandwidth limitation, coupling of modes and particular kind terminating photonic crystals with metal surfaces allowing to propagate in surface plasmon-polariton waves. The goal of the second volume is to provide an overview about the listed issues. BT - Photonic Crystals SP - Ch. 6 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/35034 DO - 10.5772/35034 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -