On guided waves in 3-D photonic crystals

The propagation of guided waves in 3-D photonic crystals is studied. In this paper, we suppose that the spectrum of reference medium (a perfectly 3-D photonic crystal) has band gaps. If a line defect is introduced along one of the lattice vectors, we prove that spectrum can be created inside the gaps of the reference spectrum if the line defect is sufficiently strong. Furthermore, we also prove that the generalized eigenfunctions corresponding to the generalized eigenvalues created by line defect are exponentially decaying away from the line defect. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved