Angular multiplexing holograms of four images recorded on photopolymer films with recording-film-thickness-dependent holographic characteristics

Keiichi Osabe; Kotaro Kawai

doi:10.1117/12.2249730

6 April 2017 Angular multiplexing holograms of four images recorded on photopolymer films with recording-film-thickness-dependent holographic characteristics

Keiichi Osabe, Kotaro Kawai

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Proceedings Volume 10127, Practical Holography XXXI: Materials and Applications; 101270S (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2249730
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

In this study, angular multiplexing hologram recording photopolymer films were studied experimentally. The films contained acrylamide as a monomer, eosin Y as a sensitizer, and triethanolamine as a promoter in a polyvinyl alcohol matrix. In order to determine the appropriate thickness of the photopolymer films for angular multiplexing, photopolymer films with thicknesses of 29-503 μm were exposed to two intersecting beams of a YVO laser at a wavelength of 532 nm to form a holographic grating with a spatial frequency of 653 line/mm. The diffraction efficiencies as a function of the incident angle of reconstruction were measured. A narrow angular bandwidth and high diffraction efficiency are required for angular multiplexing; hence, we define the Q value, which is the diffraction efficiency divided by half the bandwidth. The Q value of the films depended on the thickness of the films, and was calculated based on the measured diffraction efficiencies. The Q value of a 297-μm-thick film was the highest of the all films. Therefore, the angular multiplexing experiments were conducted using 300-μm-thick films. In the angular multiplexing experiments, the object beam transmitted by a square aperture was focused by a Fourier transform lens and interfered with a reference beam. The maximum order of angular multiplexing was four. The signal intensity that corresponds to the squared-aperture transmission and the noise intensity that corresponds to transmission without the square aperture were measured. The signal intensities decreased as the order of angular multiplexing increased, and the noise intensities were not dependent on the order of angular multiplexing.

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Keiichi Osabe and Kotaro Kawai "Angular multiplexing holograms of four images recorded on photopolymer films with recording-film-thickness-dependent holographic characteristics", Proc. SPIE 10127, Practical Holography XXXI: Materials and Applications, 101270S (6 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2249730

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