Influence of the set-up on the recording of diffractive optical elements into photopolymers

S. Gallego; R. Fernández; A. Márquez; C. Neipp; A. Beléndez; I. Pascual

doi:10.1117/12.2051709

1 May 2014 Influence of the set-up on the recording of diffractive optical elements into photopolymers

S. Gallego, R. Fernández, A. Márquez, C. Neipp, A. Beléndez, I. Pascual

Proceedings Volume 9131, Optical Modelling and Design III; 91311H (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051709
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

Photopolymers are often used as a base of holographic memories displays. Recently the capacity of photopolymers to record diffractive optical elements (DOE’s) has been demonstrated. To fabricate diffractive optical elements we use a hybrid setup that is composed by three different parts: LCD, optical system and the recording material. The DOE pattern is introduced by a liquid crystal display (LCD) working in the amplitude only mode to work as a master to project optically the DOE onto the recording material. The main advantage of this display is that permit us modify the DOE automatically, we use the electronics of the video projector to send the voltage to the pixels of the LCD. The LCD is used in the amplitude-mostly modulation regime by proper orientation of the external polarizers (P); then the pattern is imaged onto the material with an increased spatial frequency (a demagnifying factor of 2) by the optical system. The use of the LCD allows us to change DOE recorded in the photopolymer without moving any mechanical part of the set-up. A diaphragm is placed in the focal plane of the relay lens so as to eliminate the diffraction orders produced by the pixelation of the LCD. It can be expected that the final pattern imaged onto the recording material will be low filtered due to the finite aperture of the imaging system and especially due to the filtering process produced by the diaphragm. In this work we analyze the effect of the visibility achieved with the LCD and the high frequency cut-off due to the diaphragm in the final DOE recorded into the photopolymer. To simulate the recording we have used the fitted values parameters obtained for PVA/AA based photopolymers and the 3 dimensional models presented in previous works.

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S. Gallego, R. Fernández, A. Márquez, C. Neipp, A. Beléndez, and I. Pascual "Influence of the set-up on the recording of diffractive optical elements into photopolymers", Proc. SPIE 9131, Optical Modelling and Design III, 91311H (1 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2051709

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