Use of photonic crystal slow light waveguides and cavities has been widely adopted by the photonics community in many differing applications. Therefore fabrication and characterization of these devices are of great interest. This paper outlines our fabrication technique and two optical characterization methods, namely: interferometric (waveguides) and resonant scattering (cavities).
Reardon, C. P., Rey, I. H., Welna, K., O'Faolain, L., Krauss, T. F. Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities. J. Vis. Exp. (69), e50216, doi:10.3791/50216 (2012).