Characterization of dye-doped PMMA, CA, and PS films as recording materials

Roger A. Lessard; Amir Tork; Christophe Lafond; Michel Bolte; Anna-Marie R. Ritcey

doi:10.1117/12.386362

19 May 2000 Characterization of dye-doped PMMA, CA, and PS films as recording materials

Roger A. Lessard, Amir Tork, Christophe Lafond, Michel Bolte, Anna-Marie R. Ritcey

Proceedings Volume 3939, Organic Photonic Materials and Devices II; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.386362
Event: Symposium on Integrated Optoelectronics, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The photoinduced reversible color change and in-situ recording of fulgide Aberchrome 670 doped polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), cellulose acetate (CA) and polystyrene (PS) were investigated. Upon UV and visible exposure, closed-form absorbency followed first-order kinetic. The rate constants K_UV and K_VIS for respectively the coloring and bleaching process were determined. In PMMA matrix K_UV equals 1.2 * 10^-3 s^-1 and K_VIS equals 11.1 8 10^-3 s^-1, in CA matrix k_UV equals 2.7 * 10^-3 s^-1 and k_VIS equals 6.4 8 10^-3 s^-1 and in the case of PS film k_UV equals 2.1 * 10^-3 s^-1 and k_VIS equals 11.9 * 10^-3 s^-1 were obtained. These results show that, K_VIS is much larger than K_UV for all matrices. Photochemical fatigue resistance in different polymer matrices was investigated. We found a loss of 9, 11 and 13 percent in PS, CA and PMMA respectively, after 10 repeated UV and visible cycles. The real time holographic recording in fulgide doped PMMA films were studied. We have analyzed the effect of the photochromic concentration, the thickness of the film and the recording intensity on the diffraction efficiency. The highest diffraction efficiency is obtained for the concentration of 5 percent of the fulgide dye in PMMA film with an exposure energy of 10 mw/cm². For the same sample we have not observed any diffraction beam when the sample was illuminated by an intensity of 3 mw/cm².

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Roger A. Lessard, Amir Tork, Christophe Lafond, Michel Bolte, and Anna-Marie R. Ritcey "Characterization of dye-doped PMMA, CA, and PS films as recording materials", Proc. SPIE 3939, Organic Photonic Materials and Devices II, (19 May 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.386362

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