Abstract

The Fabry–Perot resonance technique has been used to determine the propagation losses of planar photonic crystal (PC) waveguides. The structures are patterned into a GaInAsP confining layer on an InP substrate. Losses as low as $11 \mathrm{dB}/\mathrm{mm}$ have been measured on a guiding structure with three missing rows. The influence of the PC guide width and air-filling factor is demonstrated.

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