**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 Photonic Crystal Laser and** 

Shing-Chung Wang

Chapter 3 **Dynamic All Optical Slow Light** 

Chapter 4 **The Optical Transmission of** 

Petcu Andreea Cristina

Chapter 2 **980nm Photonic Microcavity Vertical** 

**Photonic Crystal Characterization 1** 

**Threshold Gain Analysis of GaN-Based 2-D Photonics Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers 3**  Shih-Wei Chen, Tien-Chang Lu, Ting-Chun Liu, Peng-Hsiang Weng, Hao-Chung Kuo and

Chapter 1 **Angular-Resolved Optical Characteristics and** 

**Cavity Surface Emitting Laser 21**  Yongqiang Ning and Guangyu Liu

**Tunability by Using Nonlinear One** 

**One-Dimensional Photonic Crystals** 

Chapter 5 **Mid-Infrared Surface-Emitting Two Dimensional Photonic Crystal Semiconductor Lasers 65** 

**Containing Double-Negative Materials 41** 

Chapter 6 **A Novel Compact Photonic Crystal Fibre Surface Plasmon** 

Shyqyri Haxha, Gary Robinson and Jenny Oliver

**Resonance Biosensor for an Aqueous Environment 81**  Emmanuel K. Akowuah, Terry Gorman, Huseyin Ademgil,

Amir Hassanpour and S. Amiri

Binbin Weng and Zhisheng Shi

**Part 2 Innovative Materials and Systems 79** 

**Dimensional Coupled Cavity Waveguides 31**  Alireza Bananej, S. Morteza Zahedi, S. M. Hamidi,
