Improved maximum uniformity and capacity of multiple holograms recorded in absorbent photopolymers

Opt Express. 2007 Jul 23;15(15):9308-19. doi: 10.1364/oe.15.009308.

Abstract

In order to use photopolymers in the recording of holographic memories, high physical thickness is required. This generates many problems associated with the attenuation of light in the recording due to Beer's law. One of the more significant disadvantages is the fact that there are differences between the physical thickness of the material and the optical thickness of the holograms recorded. The optical thickness characterizes the angular selectivity of the holograms and determines the separation between two consecutive holograms in angular peristrophic multiplexing. In this work we propose a new method to record many holograms multiplexed with similar diffraction efficiency values taking into account the different effective optical thickness of each hologram.