Photonic Crystals:

Molding the Flow of Light

second edition

John D. Joannopoulos, Steven G. Johnson, Joshua N. Winn, and Robert D. Meade

Published in 2008 by Princeton University Press, this is the second edition of our undergraduate-level textbook on photonic crystals: electromagnetism in periodic (or partially periodic) geometries on the scale of the wavelength of light.

The table of contents and back-cover description for the second edition can be found on the publisher's web site.

Compared to the first edition (published in 1995), the new edition is greatly revised and expanded—it is at least twice the length of the original (going from 184 pages to 304 pages, and from 6×9-inch format to 7×10 inches), including several new chapters and substantial improvements in every pre-existing chapter.

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Princeton University Press has graciously allowed us to post a PDF preprint of the entire book online:

Of course, we hope that you will purchase the book (which is beautifully printed in full color) if you find it useful, but we are happy in any case if we are able to introduce a reader to this exciting field.

(Technical note: the PDF file is best viewed in Adobe Acrobat; we've noticed that Apple's Preview version 4.0/4.1 slightly corrupts two images on pages 86 and 98 of the PDF.)

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Errata

Unfortunately, a few small errors were identified too late in the printing process to change, and are corrected here; we apologize for these flaws.