The following issues will likely be discussed:
- the fabrication of 3D photonic crystals that strongly interact with light and that are made using self-organizing systems as templates, and new developments.
- the detailed characterization of the crystals, by electron microscopy and by synchrotron small-angle x-ray scattering.
- optical experiments such as reflectivity, transmission, enhanced backscattering, phase-sensitive ultrashort-pulse interferometry.
- studies of the emission by light sources (excited molecules or atoms) located inside photonic crystals, both cw and time-resolved.
- the interpretation of the experiments.
All of our papers are availabale on line. This collection includes review papers, tutorials, and a collection of extensive Ph.D. theses on multiple scattering, Anderson localization, random lasers, and photonic crystals: http://www.science.uva.nl/research/scm/
I thank Lydia Bechger, Henry van Driel, Arnout Imhof, Femius Koenderink, Ad Lagendijk, Mischa Megens, Henry Schriemer, Rudolf Sprik, Michiel Thijssen, Judith Wijnhoven, as well as T. Narayanan (ESRF, Grenoble), and the groups of John Kelly (Utrecht) and Bill Buhro (St.Louis) for their contributions.