1. A great many additional very interesting papers that cannot be cited here can be found in the following general references: Special issue of J Modern Optics, 1994;41:71; Special issue of J Opt Soc Am B 1993;10:280; Burstein E, Weisbuch C, editors. Confined electrons and photons: New physics and applications, Plenum, 1995; Soukoulis C, editor. Photonic band gap materials, Plenum, 1995; Rarity J, Weisbuch C, Microcavities and photonic bandgaps: Physics and applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996; and finally the recent Rarity J, Weisbuch C, editors. QED phenomena and applications of microcavities and photonic crystals, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. A general theoretical, tutorial introduction can be found in the book Joannopoulos JD, Meade RD, Winn JN, Photonic crystals, Princeton University Press, 1995.
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