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The field of nanophotonics is a major research topic, as it offers potential solutions to important challenges, such as the creation of low power, high bandwidth interconnects or optical sensors. Within this field, resonant structures and slow light waveguides are used to improv…

The growing speed and bandwidth requirements of telecommunication systems demand all-optical on-chip solutions. Microphotonic devices can deliver low power nonlinear signal processing solutions. This thesis looks at the slow light photonic crystals in chalcogenide glasses to enh…

This thesis explores the links between different ways of modelling the physical world. Finite difference numerical simulations may be used to encode the behaviour of physical systems, allowing us to gain insight into their workings and even to predict their behaviour. Similarly,…