title: Volume diffraction effects in computer-generated guided-wave holography.
abstract: An integrated-optics equivalent of any one-dimensional computer-generated hologram can, in principle, be formed by a patterning a (scaled) cross-sectional slice of the surface relief profile on the waveguide. Because of the small effective-index modulation, the thickness of such a computer-generated waveguide hologram must be far greater than that of its free-space counterpart. Considerable volume diffraction effects are thus introduced. An analysis of such effects is carried out with the thin-grating-decomposition method, using Fourier-plane-grating multiple beam splitters as an example. It is shown that the index-modulation profile must be reoptimized to obtain a good reconstruction fidelity in the presence of volume effects, and methods of achieving this are introduced.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Saarinen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Turunen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Huttunen