Table of Contents

Microcavities and photonic bandgaps: A summary of physics and applications.- Microcavities and photonic bandgaps: A summary of physics and applications.- Planar Semiconductor Microcavities.- Cavity-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities.- Critical issues on the strong coupling régime in semiconductor microcavities.- Normal-mode coupling in planar semiconductor microcavities.- Dynamical studies of cavity polaritons in semiconductor microcavities: Pump probe measurements and time-resolved photoluminescence.- Spontaneous emission dynamics in planar semiconductor microcavities.- Magnetic and electric field effects in semiconductor quantum microcavity structures.- Time resolved photoluminescence from a semiconductor microcavity: Temperature dependence and role of leaky modes.- Order of magnitude enhanced spontaneous emission from room-temperature bulk GaAs.- Optical double-resonant raman scattering in semiconductor planar microcavities.- Second harmonic generation in a metal-semiconductor-metal monolithic cavity.- Photonic Bandgap Materials, and Novel Structures.- Bandgap engineering of 3-D photonic crystals operating at optical wavelengths.- Microcavities in photonic crystals.- Electromagnetic study of photonic band structures and Anderson localization.- Localization of light in 2D random media.- Strategies for the fabrication of photonic microstructures in semiconductors.- GaInAsP/InP 2-dimensional photonic crystals.- Bound modes of two-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides.- InAs quantum boxes: Active probes for air/GaAs photonic bandgap microstructures.- Spontaneous emission and nonlinear effects in photonic band gap materials.- Guided modes in a 2D photonic-band-gap material: Advantages over the 1D case.- Photonic atoms: Enhanced light coupling.- Photonicsurfaces.- The opal-semiconductor system as a possible photonic bandgap material.- Partial photonic bandgaps in Bragg directions in polystyrene colloidal crystals.- Characterising whispering-gallery modes in microspheres using a near-field probe.- Numerical method for calculating spontaneous emission rate near a surface using Green’s functions.- Microcavity effects in Er3+-doped optical fibres: Alteration of spontaneous emission from 2D fibre microcavities.- Decay time and spectrum of rare earth fluorescence in silvered microfibers.- Device Applications.- Commercial light emitting diode technology: Status, trends, and possible future performance.- Resonant cavity LED’s: Design, fabrication and analysis of high efficiency LED’s.- High efficiency resonant cavity LED’s.- II-VI resonant cavity light emitting diodes for the mid-infrared.- Carrier and photon dynamics in semiconductor microdisk lasers.- Spontaneous emission control in long wavelength semiconductor micropost lasers.- Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with monolithically integrated modulators.- Cavity effects in thin film phosphors based on ZnS.- Using microcavities to manipulate luminescence in conjugated polymers.- Spontaneous emission control in a microcavity edge emitting laser.- Dielectric thin films for microcavity applications.- Quantum Optics.- Optical cavity QED.- Semiconductor cavity QED in high-Q regimes: Exciton polariton boser and nonlinear bi-excitonic spectrum.- Squeezing the light with laser cooled atoms.- Quantum intensity noise of laser diodes.- Quantum control of intensity in semiconductor laser amplifiers.- Single-mode generation of quantum photon states by excited single molecules in a microcavity trap.- Squeezed light generation by four-wave mixing in semiconductors.- Theexciton boser: Cooperative phenomena in microcavity excitons.- Rabi-splitting and photon-number squeezing due to excitons in microcavities.- Quantum optics using defect modes in photonic band-gap structures.- Limits of quantum computing: Analysis of a concrete algorithm.- Cooperative and coherent optical processes in field confining structures.- Localized structures in nonlinear optical systems and materials.- Dynamical chaos for the strongly coupled microcavity-quantum well-exciton system.