Photopolymer-based volume holographic optical elements: design and possible applications

Photopolymer-based stratified volume holographic optical elements.

We report the implementation of stratified volume holographic optical elements (SVHOE's) using DuPont's Omnidex holographic photopolymer material and an in situ exposure technique for simultaneous multilayer grating recording. Experimental measurement of the +1-order angular sensitivity of a seven-layer SVHOE structure shows remarkable agreement with both theory and numerical simulation for inc...

Volume Holographic Optical Elements

Holographic applications based on photopolymer materials

Photopolymer materials are widely used in many holographic applications because of their advantages. This paper reviews the various holographic applications which either require the high index modulation including optical demultiplexer, color-display filter, and polarization-selective element, or need the stability and long life such as holographic memory and security card system.

Volume polarization holographic recording in thick photopolymer for optical memory.

Based on a vector wave theory of volume holograms, dependence of holographic reconstruction on the polarization states of the writing and reading beams is discussed. It is found that under paraxial approximation the circular polarization holograms provide a better distinction of the reading beams. Characteristics of recording polarization holograms in thick phenanthrenequinone-doped poly(methyl...

Hybrid Integrated Optics in Volume Holographic Photopolymer

Traditional planar lightwave circuits fabricated from lithographically-patterned waveguides in glasses, semi-conductors or polymers cannot accommodate the wide range of materials required by typical optical devices. In addition, such waveguides are nearly always defined in the material surface and thus can support only a limited density of interconnects and suffer poor performance at waveguide ...