Abstract

Microelectronic chip-to-chip interconnection necessitates channeling information from a large number of independent transmitters to a large number of receiver locations. Limitations of existing electronic interconnection techniques have prompted examination of optical methods of connection. One proposal is to use reflection-type holographic optical elements to direct modulated signals from optical sources to detectors. Obtaining multiple images from a single source requires encoding a set of gratings in the same recording medium. This can be done either sequentially (incoherently) or simultaneously (coherently). In this presentation the results of an experimental and theoretical investigation of simultaneously formed multiple image reflection volume holograms are given.

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