Diffractive optic near-field interference based fabrication of telecom band diamond-like 3-dimensional photonic crystals

Author

Chanda, Debashis ; Abolghasemi, Ladan ; Haque, Moez ; Ng, Mi Li ; Herman, Peter R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A single laser exposure method of fabricating three-dimensional polymer photonic crystal having large number of layers has been demonstrated using a novel multi-layer diffractive optical element. Strong photonic stopbands are reported in the telecom band.

Keywords

diffractive optical elements; laser materials processing; optical communication equipment; optical fabrication; optical multilayers; optical polymers; photolithography; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; 3-D polymer photonic crystal fabrication; diffractive optic lithography; diffractive optic near-field interference based fabrication; multilayer diffractive optical element; photonic stopbands; single laser exposure method; telecom band diamond-like 3-D photonic crystals; thick photo-sensitive polymer; Holographic optical components; Holography; Interference; Lithography; Optical device fabrication; Optical diffraction; Optical polymers; Photonic crystals; Telecommunications; US Department of Energy; (090.0090) Holography; (110.5220) Photolithography; (220.4000) Microstructure fabrication; (260.3160) Interference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4572151