We report on the enhanced holographic performance by employing a strong volume holographic absorption grating induced by localized surface plasmon resonance effect in a bulk gold nanoparticles doped photopolymer. The contributions of plasmon-induced volume holographic absorption grating is characterized through the Kogelnik's coupled wave model and demonstrated experimentally by using two-beam interference technology. At the 0.05 vol. % concentration of the gold nanoparticles in the bulk photopolymer, 101.8% increase in the diffraction efficiency and more than four times suppression of the first side lobe in angular selectivity have been achieved.
We report on volume holographic hybrid polarization-angle multiplexing in a gold nanoparticle-doped photopolymer. When doping the gold nanoparticles, the linear photoinduced birefringence of the phenanthrenequinone-doped poly (methyl methacrylate) (PQ/PMMA) photopolymer could be increased by nearly 38%. The data pages could be recorded with the orthogonal circular polarization multiplexing, and the reconstructed images have a symbol-error rate of 3.81% and 4.46% for left circular polarization and right circular polarization state, respectively. Two biological image sets multiplexed both with the angle interval of 0.1° and with orthogonal circular polarization are reconstructed separately and simultaneously.
A holographic kinetic model is proposed to quantitatively represent the dynamics of mixed volume gratings in a bulk gold nanoparticles (NPs) doped photopolymer. Due to the polymerization-driven multicomponent diffusion, the volume refractive index grating is induced by the periodic spatial distribution of photoproduct while the absorption grating is formed by the periodic spatial distribution of gold NPs. By simulating this model with the characterization of time varying absorption modulation, it is capable to describe the behavior of gold NPs in both the polymerization and the multicomponent diffusion process. The temporal evolution of refractive index modulation and absorption modulation can be extracted, respectively, from a diffraction efficiency curve by fitting the model. The established model could be an effective method for understanding the photophysical and photochemical mechanism of holographic nanocomposite.
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