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Optical Properties of Photonic Crystals

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Only the first 100 pages of the book can be considered okay (sans Section 3.5, where for the Poynting vector erroneous definition is written). There is nothing special and most likely there are million texts where the same things are written better, but at least in the book some ground information is presented.

The remainder, however, is of extremely low quality. My impression is that an undergraduate student was given an outline and that's how the book was born. Whenever a "theoretical consideration" appears in the text it should be taken with a grain of salt. For example, Section 5.3. Simulated emission. The induced polarization is confined to the slab of atoms. It produces the field, whose magnitude is proportional to the thickness of the slab as written in Eq. (5.45). It should be noted that the spatial variation of the field is determined solely by the mode of the photonic crystal. It is, however, assumed in the following calculations that the field actually increases linearly within the slab of the atoms (which doesn't make sense merely because of the boundary conditions). The book is full of such inaccuracies, which make it extremely difficult to adapt the consideration for different situations thus bringing the value of the book down.

Overall, whenever I am trying to use this book I end up redoing everything by myself from the scratch.