Photonic Crystals and 2-D Photonic Crystal Waveguides

Photonic crystal is a kind of novel optical material. Photonic crystal has lots of special characteristics which can be used to fabricate photonic crystal devices. The structure, properties, main fabricated methods, and theory research methods of one dimensional, two dimensional and three dimensional photonic crystals are introduced in this paper. Especially, the characteristics, fabricated methods and research status at home and abroad are described.