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A periodic array of dye‐doped disks that form a 2D photonic lattice is fabricated and characterized. The array was generated by interference lithography, and the voids of the template were filled by SU8 without doping. This creates a photonic lattice with a uniform real part of the refractive index, but a periodically modulated imaginary part. The structure is characterized by diffraction measurements; the structure only diffracts light in the spectral range where the dye absorbs, hence acts like a truly imaginary index photonic crystal.

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Inverse photonic crystal films were prepared by photopolymerization of ethoxylate trimethylolpropane triacrylate (ETPTA) using opal-type templates. Their high quality was proved by investigations of structural and optical properties. The unexpectedly high refractive index, nETPTA ≈ 1.67, of polymerized ETPTA was obtained from a numerical approximation of the spectral positions of the reflectance peak of the films at different incidence angles. Fabricated samples were tested as sensors for water-ethanol mixtures, and a monotonous increase in the stop band shift with an increase in ethanol concentration was established.