Design of Dye Concentrations in Azobenzene-Containing Polymer films for Volume Holographic Storage

Diffraction efficiencies of holograms in thick azo polymer films were improved by designing optical densities of the films. A nonphotosensitive polymer was used as a binder for controlling the dye concentrations. We fabricated 250-µm-thick films by changing the concentrations. While the optically in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 2004-07, Vol.43 (7S), p.4964
Hauptverfasser: Minabe, Jiro, Maruyama, Tatsuya, Yasuda, Shin, Kawano, Katsunori, Hayashi, Kazuhiro, Ogasawara, Yasuhiro
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Zusammenfassung:Diffraction efficiencies of holograms in thick azo polymer films were improved by designing optical densities of the films. A nonphotosensitive polymer was used as a binder for controlling the dye concentrations. We fabricated 250-µm-thick films by changing the concentrations. While the optically induced birefringence decreased with decreasing concentration, reduction of absorption loss of the reading beam increased the diffraction efficiency. Thus, owing to the competition between the decrease in birefringence and the increase in efficiency, there exist appropriate concentrations for improving both sensitivity and magnitude of the diffraction efficiency. Consequently, the diffraction efficiency reached 25% without degradation of the sensitivity. We also demonstrated holographic multiplexing using the film. A set of 20 data pages (66 kbits per page) was successfully multiplexed and retrieved with a low bit-error rate of 1.3×10 -3 . The use of an error correction coding would allow error-free recovery of the data pages.
ISSN:0021-4922
1347-4065
DOI:10.1143/JJAP.43.4964