Spectrally selective holographic optical elements based on a thick polymer medium with diffusional amplification

Abstract

A thick rigid polymer recording medium with self-amplification of holograms owing to diffusion of phenanthrenequinone molecules was used to find efficient holographic optical elements with high-spectral-selectivity interference filters and multiple demultiplexers. Several examples of practical applications are briefly described in this paper, showing the benefits of such optical elements for the fields of astronomy, spectroscopy and communication technologies.