Quarterwave plates can be made as holographic gratings in positive photoresist. We studied the effect of the grating period and relief depth on the phase retardation and on the rotation of the polarization of the transmitted light. Experiments were performed with gratings of different periods, which also exhibit an antireflection property.
A holographic perfect shuffle element with 80 channels for a miniaturized switching network is reported. An array of vertical-cavity, surface-emitting lasers is used as a transmitter. The whole permutation is carried out totally in glass. The 80 channels are permuted within a rectangle with a volume of 3 mm × 4 mm × 2 mm. Four planes of stacked volume holograms recorded in dichromated gelatin form this perfect shuffle element with an angular spectrum between 7° and 35°. Changes in the wavelength of the diode lasers to Δλ = ±10 nm can be compensated with this setup. The overall efficiency per channel lies between 40% and 60%. When Fresnel reflections and absorption are taken into account, a transmission per hologram between 78% and 90% is achieved.
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