Abstract

We demonstrate, for what we believe is the first time, recording of a femtosecond image hologram by illumination with a single pair of high-intensity femtosecond pulses in a broad inhomogeneous bandwidth spectral hole-burning material consisting of a polymer film doped with anthraceno-phthalocyanine dye molecules. High efficiency of spectral hole burning is achieved by preillumination of the sample at a low temperature to convert the dye molecules into an unstable tautomer form.

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Recording of 6000 holograms by use of spectral hole burning

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Appl. Opt. 34(20) 4140-4148 (1995)

Hologram recording in DuPont photopolymer films by use of pulse exposure

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Phototautomerization and broadband spectral holography

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Holographic recording in a photopolymer by optically induced detachment of chromophores

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Spectral hole burning and holography. V. Asymmetric diffraction from thin holograms

Stefan Bernet, Bern Kohler, Alexander Rebane, Alois Renn, and Urs P. Wild
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 9(6) 987-991 (1992)