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Abstract. We study the two-dimensional photonic crystal (PC) square lattice structure to design a channel drop filter. The channel drop filter (CDF) is designed using a PC ring resonator structure because of its better response. The variation in the shape of scatterer rods causes the shift in resonant wavelength and also shows an improvement in quality factor as well as dropping efficiency. The dropping efficiency is improved from 92.7% to 99.5% for a particular wavelength at 1531 nm, which is especially used in telecommunication. The designed CDF structure is useful for coarse wavelength division multiplexer. The size of the device is very small, so these devices can play an important role in optical communication networks and photonic integrated circuits.