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Photopolymerizable hybrid sol-gel material for holographic recording

2003; SPIE; Volume: 5216; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.504990

1996-756X

G. Ramos, A. Álvarez‐Herrero, Tomás Belenguer, David Lévy, Francisco del Monte,

Liquid Crystal Research Advancements

A holographic hybrid sol-gel material with excellent values of diffraction efficiency, index modulation and high photosensitivity (up to 93%, 10 -3 , and 5 x 10 -3 cm 2 /mJ, respectively) is reported. Moroever, a high angular selectivity has been achieved $9 = 0.0967°) through the selection of the adequate nanoporous silica supporting matrix. Such a value has allowed to first demonstrate the capability of angular multiplexing in a holographic sol-gel media (up to five volume holograms with a resultant M/# of 0.83 in a preliminary approach). Shrinkage during UV curing processes has also been determined in order to evaluate how accurate can be the retrieval of the recorded data.