Two-way holographic image storage in photosensitive polymers

Yasuo Aoshima; Chikara Egami; Yoshimasa Kawata; Okihiro Sugihara; Masaaki Tsuchimori; Osamu Watanabe; Yanlong Che; Hisashi Fujimura; Naomichi Okamoto

doi:10.1143/jjap.40.1619

Two-way holographic image storage in photosensitive polymers

Yasuo Aoshima, Chikara Egami, Yoshimasa Kawata, Okihiro Sugihara, Masaaki Tsuchimori, Osamu Watanabe, Yanlong Che, Hisashi Fujimura, Naomichi Okamoto

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We report two-way holographic image storage in azo polymers. Urethane-urea copolymers involve two photochemical reactions, photoanisotropic modification and surface modification. We can realize the recording of two holograms(polarization volume hologram due to the anisotropy of azo side chain and surface relief hologram) that have different types of information. This is possible because the polarization volume hologram is rewritable while the surface relief hologram is thermally stable. Using the fact that the polarization volume hologram acts like a half wave plate, we can separately readout the different types of information.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1619-1623
Number of pages	5
Journal	Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 2: Letters
Volume	40
Issue number	3 B
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.40.1619
Publication status	Published - 2001
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cis-trans photoisomerization
Holographic image storage
Optical memory
Surface relief hologram
Urethane-urea copolymer

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Engineering(all)
Physics and Astronomy(all)

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