The presented investigations relate to the development of new polymer nanocomposite materials and technologies for direct, one-step fabrication of photonic elements like gratings, integrated elements, photonic crystals. Our nanocomposites contain SiO2 and Au nanoparticles as well as luminescent materials and are sensitized to UV, blue and green laser illumination. They are optically transparent with low scattering, biocompatible. The presence of gold nanoparticles and possibility to excite plasmonic effects can essentially influence the polymerization processes, the behavior of initiators, the spatial redistribution of nanoparticles in the nanocomposite during the recording, luminescent parameters of nanocomposites. 1-,2-3D photonic structures were recorded in the developed materials.