Title :
Polymer-based photonic crystals
Author :
Torres, C.S. ; Goldschmidt, A. ; Ferrand, Paul ; Romanov, S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Wuppertal Univ., Germany
fDate :
29 June-3 July 2003
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.
Keywords :
nonlinear optics; optical fabrication; optical losses; optical polymers; optical resonators; optical waveguides; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM elements; full gap; low fabrication cost; optical nonlinearities; out-of-plane losses; polymer-based photonic crystals; resonators; stability; ultrarefractive phenomena; waveguides; Costs; Optical device fabrication; Optical losses; Optical polymers; Optical refraction; Optical resonators; Optical variables control; Photonic crystals; Refractive index; Stability;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2003. Proceedings of 2003 5th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7816-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2003.1264612
