Abstract

Holographic information recording in photopolymer media is of great importance and lately has been under the thorough study [1-3]. It is found that with these materials there are some important features in comparison with the recording in photorefractive crystals. First, it is necessary to take into account the dynamic in behaviour of many medium components, involved into the process of the of the radical polymerization [4]. Second, while describing the kinetics of a holographic recording one should take into consideration medium average parameters changing in time. The diffusion processes of interaction components and also of inert component are of great importance [2]. Finally, the considerable variations of kinetic coefficients such as medium viscosity, diffusion coefficients, break reactions parameters of polymeric chain in polymerization process are also very important for description of kinetics recording [3]. All these effects require complex non-linear equations. In this work the analytical solution of the problem about the holographic information recording in photopolymer media for the cases of relatively small light diffraction on the recorded grating, the effects of self diffraction being neglected and the light field being given.

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