[email protected] wrote: > I was reading "Photonic crystals: semiconductors of light" by Eli Yablonavitch > (Scientific American December 2001 ). I have a simple question about a figure > of 1D photonic crystal shown in that paper. > Please find the relevant figure here > http://filebox.vt.edu/users/kdas/photonic_bands.jpg
> I want to take your attention to the 2nd figures in both sets of figures, i.e. > "Reflected waves in phase" and "Reflected waves not in phase". Why only > reflections from the front side those blue regions and vacuum/air are shown in > those two figures. What about reflections from the back sides of those blue > regions? Will those reflections will also be "in phase" and "not in phase", > respectively. It looks to me to be a very schematic diagram intended to only give a qualitative picture; I expect the back side reflections were omitted to keep it readable. -- ---------------------------------+--------------------------------- Dr. Paul Kinsler Blackett Laboratory (Photonics) (ph) +44-20-759-47734 (fax) 47714 Imperial College London, [email protected] SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom. http://www.qols.ph.ic.ac.uk/~kinsle/ _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss
