**Meet the editor**

Alessandro Massaro received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication engineering from the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. From 2004 to 2006 he worked as Research Scientist (postdoc) in the Department of Electromagnetism and Bioengineering at Università Politecnica delle Marche. In 2006,

he spent one year in Research and Development at medical and industrial optics industry (endoscope design and optical systems). He worked for two years with National Nanotechnology Laboratory of CNR-INFM, Università del Salento, as principal investigator. He is currently team leader in the Center for Bio-Molecular Nanotechnology of Italian Institute Technology (IIT), Arnesano, Lecce, Italy. His research interests are in the design and modeling of photonic band gap circuits, in the development of computer aided design (CAD) tools in the area of integrated optics, MEMS technology and systems, and smart material implementation. Actually he is member of the European Microwave Association (EuMA), of the American Nano Society, and of IEEE IMS TC-34 Nanotechnology in Instrumentation and Measurement. He is editor in chief of the international Journal Micro and NanoSensor Journal (MNSJ).

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Introduction to Photonic Crystals 1** 

Priscilla Simonis and Serge Berthier

Chapter 2 **Basics of the Photonic Crystal Gratings 25** 

**Part 2 Photonic Crystals and Applications 61** 

Chapter 5 **MEMS Based Deep 1D Photonic Crystal 81**  Maurine Malak and Tarik Bourouina

Alessandro Massaro

**Part 3 Photonic Crystal Fiber 157** 

Chapter 8 **Photonic Crystal Fibre** 

Chapter 7 **EIT-Based Photonic Crystals** 

Chapter 4 **Optical Logic Devices Based on Photonic Crystal 63**  Kabilan Arunachalam and Susan Christina Xavier

Chapter 6 **Photonic Crystal Waveguides and Bio-Sensors 113** 

**and Photonic Logic Gate Design 133** 

**Interferometer for Humidity Sensing 159**  Jinesh Mathew, Yuliya Semenova and Gerald Farrell

Chapter 9 **Arc Fusion Splicing of Photonic Crystal Fibres 175**  Krzysztof Borzycki and Kay Schuster

Teh-Chau Liau, Jin-Jei Wu, Jian Qi Shen and Tzong-Jer Yang

Eyal Feigenbaum, Stanley P. Burgos and Harry A. Atwater

Chapter 1 **How Nature Produces Blue Color 3** 

Andriy E. Serebryannikov

Chapter 3 **Resonant Guided Wave Networks 45** 
