Reply to "comment on 'observation of higher-order diffraction features in self-assembled photonic crystals' "

Abstract

In this Reply, we show that the authors of the preceding Comment have not contested any of the major results presented in our original paper [R. V. Nair and R. Vijaya, Phys. Rev. A 76, 053805 (2007)], since the defects have not been quantified in their calculations and the extinction may also arise from factors other than those mentioned in the Comment.