Abstract
It is shown that for one-dimensional dielectric photonic crystals, the Bloch modes, a vital tool in the analysis of these structures, cannot provide a complete representation of the electromagnetic field at the edges of bandgaps. On these points, the couple of Bloch modes representing the propagation on both sides of the crystal reduces to a single one, with a stationary field, and a complete representation of the field inside the crystal illuminated by a plane wave must include a linearly damped mode (LDM), the amplitude of which behaves linearly in space. The theory of transfer matrices and the use of basic properties of the field allow a precise description of the LDM from a few parameters. An extension to two-dimensional photonic crystals is proposed.
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