Semiconductor Photonic Crystals

Susumu Noda

Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

In this talk, I would like to review the present status of 3D and 2D photonic crystals based on III-V semiconductors. On the 3D photonic crystals, the development of complete photonic crystals in optical wavelengths, and their applications to 3D sharp bend waveguide and control of light-emission will be discussed. On the 2D photonic crystals, a very unique coherent oscillation of 2D photonic crystal laser and some other functional devices will be described.