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OCLC number
1007122190
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Author
Birabassov, Rouslan,1973-
Title
Dynamic holographic gratings.
Degree
Ph. D. -- Université Laval, 2001
Publisher
Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, [2002]
Description
2 microfiches
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Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
The work presented in this thesis is divided into two related areas. The first area of research was a study of photoanisotropic materials to record dynamic gratings. The second area was a study of stimulated diffusion backscattering in photorefractive crystals. The two areas are related by the fact that in the two cases we studied dynamic gratings. We studied reversible photochemical mechanisms using dye molecules suspended in polymer hosts that could record dynamic holograms. The self-developing refractive index changes in dye-doped or dye-attached polymer materials, in particularly azo-dye-doped polymer systems make them promising candidates for many applications (because of the large photoinduced birefringence). The mechanism of photoanisotropic recording in azo-dye-doped polymer materials is based on orientationally dependent photoisomerization of dye molecules that may be macroscopically described in terms of photoinduced linear dichroism and linear birefringence. We proposed a technique for the fabrication of thick photosensitized polymer materials for real-time (self-developing) holographic applications. Cross modulation experiments to study the photoinduced dichroism are then described and the discussion of photophysical mechanisms involved is given. We used azo-dye doped polymer materials to record thin and thick holograms (scalar and vector). We theoretically and experimentally demonstrated that one could successfully store (using a linearly and an elliptically polarized beams) and reconstruct an elliptical polarization state of light using photoanisotropic materials, even if a plane polarized reference beam is used for the recording and readout. Using photoanisotropic materials, we demonstrated experimentally and theoretically that macroscopic optical chirality may be generated in such systems with a proper choice of excitation beam polarization state. Linear diffraction gratings, that provide strongly asymmetric diffraction without surface modulation were also created and studied. Asymmetric diffraction may be achieved using blazed gratings. But in our case the spatial phase shift of the refractive index grating relative to the absorption grating is the origin of asymmetric behaviour. Experimental results made with thin mixed phase and absorption gratings in azo-dye-doped polymer films are in agreement with our theoretical results. In the second part of the thesis we analysed the stimulated diffusion backscattering (SDS) in photorefractive crystals based on the advantages of the reflection photorefractive gratings. The material research, which is the most acute direction, was studied. We believe that optimal crystal (its processing procedure and doping density) is still unknown even for visible range. We discussed the general analysis of the stimulated diffusion backscattering. We studied the relevant parameters for the sample, which demonstrated the most interesting stimulated diffusion backscattering response: measurements of gain, reflectivity, response rate, dark conductivity and grating decay. We clarified the principal possibilities to obtain self-phase conjugation at backward SDS in steady-state conditions. We also made the comparison of sensitivities of different geometries with respect to pump energy. Finally, we experimentally studied double-phase-conjugation geometry at double-loop reflection gratings.
ISBN
0612607631
9780612607637