A free version of the other article (using microdisks instead of photonic crystals) is available on the arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3311 Reading the two papers careful, it turns out the photonic crystal paper is only at the "onset" of strong coupling (the decay rate is still about 2x faster than the coherent light-matter coupling rate) while the microdisk paper is actually strongly coupled (the coherent coupling rate is faster than any decay or dephasing).
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A free version of the other article (using microdisks instead of photonic crystals) is available on the arXiv:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3311
Reading the two papers careful, it turns out the photonic crystal paper is only at the "onset" of strong coupling (the decay rate is still about 2x faster than the coherent light-matter coupling rate) while the microdisk paper is actually strongly coupled (the coherent coupling rate is faster than any decay or dephasing).