Abstract

Ordered arrays of nanosize spheres (photonic crystals) attracted the attention of many researchers for their linear and nonlinear properties. For example, one is able to design and realize imaging elements thinner than the propagating wavelength [1]. The optically confining environment of these three-dimensional, periodic structures is particularly attractive when it is implanted with semiconductor [2] or erbium [3]. The combination of nonlinear properties of quantum dots with the strong dispersion of the matrix leads to controllable pulse broadening or even pulse compression [4]. Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNTs) have stimulated extensive attention due to their extraordinary electronic properties [5]. Unlike past studies of SWCNT where the tubes are agglomerated in bundles, or suspended in solution [6] only recently, we were able to grow well-separated individual SWCNTs. Moreover, unlike their counterparts, these SWCNT are strongly chiral and semiconductive. Here we investigate the optical properties of SWCNT imbedded within photonic crystals.

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