New Photopolymers Composed of Photoreactive Binder for Holographic Applications (I)

  • Choi, Dong-Hoon (College of Environment & Applied Chemistry, Materials Research Center for Information Display, Institute of Natural Science, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Yoon, Han-Na (College of Environment & Applied Chemistry, Materials Research Center for Information Display, Institute of Natural Science, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Yoon, Hyuk (College of Environment & Applied Chemistry, Materials Research Center for Information Display, Institute of Natural Science, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Lee, Geon-Joon (College of Environment & Applied Chemistry, Materials Research Center for Information Display, Institute of Natural Science, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Feng, De-jun (College of Environment & Applied Chemistry, Materials Research Center for Information Display, Institute of Natural Science, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Kim, Jae-Hong (College of Environment & Applied Chemistry, Materials Research Center for Information Display, Institute of Natural Science, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Paik, Sang-Hyun (College of Environment & Applied Chemistry, Materials Research Center for Information Display, Institute of Natural Science, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Choi, Suk-Ho (College of Electronics & Information, Materials Research Center for Information Display, Institute of Natural Science, Kyung Hee University)
  • Published : 2003.07.09

Abstract

New photopolymers were designed and prepared using the photosensitive polymer binders. The photochemical reaction of the photosensitive polymer binder was studied by virtue of UV absorption and infrared spectroscopy. The holographic gratings were successfully fabricated in these photopolymer film samples by conventional optical interference method. We also investigated the effect of photocrosslink in the polymer binder on the diffraction behavior of the photopolymer. The dynamic behaviors of the grating formation were studied with the change of exposure intensity in terms of the diffraction efficiency. Particularly, we focused our efforts to observe the variation of the diffraction efficiency during post UV curing process.

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