title: Highly efficient volume hologram multiplexing in thick dye-doped jelly-like gelatin.
abstract: Dye-doped jelly-like gelatin is a thick-layer self-developing photosensitive medium that allows single and multiplexed volume phase holograms to be successfully recorded using pulsed laser radiation. In this Letter, we present a method for multiplexed recording of volume holograms in a dye-doped jelly-like gelatin, which provides significant increase in their diffraction efficiency. The method is based on the recovery of the photobleached dye molecule concentration in the hologram recording zone of gel, thanks to molecule diffusion from other unexposed gel areas. As an example, an optical recording of a multiplexed hologram consisting of three superimposed Bragg gratings with mean values of the diffraction efficiency and angular selectivity of ∼75% and ∼21', respectively, is demonstrated by using the proposed method.
authors: Vasili M
authors: VM
authors: Katarkevich
authors: Anatoli N
authors: AN
authors: Rubinov
authors: Terlan Sh
authors: TSh
authors: Efendiev