This document summarizes an auto-cloning photonic crystal technology that can create arbitrary optical patterns for applications such as waveplates and polarizers. The photonic crystals are thin multilayer structures with thicknesses around 10 wavelengths that use inorganic materials like silicon dioxide and metals oxides with different refractive indices. They can function across ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths. Examples highlighted include a hybrid thin photonic crystal waveplate that is 15 micrometers thick, 2 millimeters wide, and has a pitch of 20-250 micrometers that functions in the C or L band with less than 0.1 dB of insertion loss. A polarization beam splitter application is also described that can separate left and right circular polarizations with 0.