Liquid crystals in woodpile photonic crystals : fabrication, numerical calculation and measurement 

    Ho, Chih-Hua (Date of defense: 2016-03-14)

    Both experimental and numerical studies on Liquid Crystal (LC) infiltrated woodpile Photonic Crystal (PhC) are implemented in this thesis. The most well-known optical phenomenon of PhC is photonic bandgap (PBG). It is ...

    Plasmon-soliton waves in metal-nonlinear dielectric planar structures 

    Walasik, Wiktor (Date of defense: 2014-10-13)

    In this PhD thesis, we study properties of stationary transverse magnetic polarized waves in structures built of a Kerr-type nonlinear dielectric layer, metal and linear dielectric layers. Although these waves, called here ...