Enhanced non-volatile and updatable holography using a polymer composite system

Opt Express. 2012 Mar 12;20(6):6052-7. doi: 10.1364/OE.20.006052.

Abstract

Updatable holography is considered as the ultimate technique for true 3D information recording and display. However, there is no practical solution to preserve the required features of both non-volatility and reversibility which conflict with each other when the reading has the same wavelength as the recording. We demonstrate a non-volatile and updatable holographic approach by exploiting new features of molecular transformations in a polymer recording system. In addition, by using a new composite recording film containing photo-reconfigurable liquid-crystal (LC) polymer, the holographic recording is enhanced due to the collective reorientation of LC molecules around the reconfigured polymer chains.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Holography / instrumentation*
  • Holography / methods*
  • Image Enhancement / methods*
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Light
  • Liquid Crystals / chemistry*
  • Liquid Crystals / radiation effects
  • Materials Testing