Title
Angular selectivity behavior of a grating imaging in thick photorefractive media
Date Issued
01 December 2004
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones CientificasUniversidad Simon BolivarUniversidad Central de VenezuelaMinisterio de ciencia y TecnologiaFundacion Polar
Abstract
It is well known that a thin phase grating holographically produced exhibits Raman-Nath behavior and a thick phase grating shows Bragg behavior in the diffraction process. In the Raman-Nath regime several diffracted waves are produced. Usually, in a photorefractive material such as a sillenite BSO crystal, volume phase holograms are stored by means of the interference of two coherent beams intersecting inside the crystal. In our work, we analyze the diffraction properties of gratings incoherently stored in a photorefractive medium. To this purpose, an input Ronchi grating is incoherently imaged in a thick BSO crystal. The grating is stored on a birefringence modulation basis. In the reconstruction step, when a collimated beam impinges perpendicularly to the crystal input face several diffracted orders appear in accordance with the Raman-Nath regime. As far as the read-out beam direction is rotated the diffraction efficiency of each order changes. The angular selectivity behaviour of the grating in terms of the crystal thickness and the grating period is analyzed. The adequate selection of the write-in parameters allow to highlight a determined order and to achieve multiple storage, without cross-talk.
Start page
424
End page
429
Volume
5622
Issue
PART 1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la información
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-17644410719
Source
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISSN of the container
0277786X
DOI of the container
10.1117/12.589356
Conference
RIAO/OPTILAS 2004: 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics, and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and their Applications; ICO Regional Meeting
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