Polymer-based photonic crystals

Abstract

Summary form only given. Polymer-based photonic crystals have some advantages over their high refractive index counterparts in terms of: out-of-plane losses, low fabrication cost and optical non-linearities. Some of its disadvantages are the stability of the polymers and the unlikely development of a full gap. We present the status of our experimental and or theoretical work on waveguides, resonators and WDM elements, the latter based on ultrarefractive phenomena.