Thick dye-doped poly(methyl methacrylate) films for real-time holography

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 35, 1998, Pages 8264-8269

  Birabassov, Rouslan ^a   Landraud, Nathalie ^a   Galstyan, Tigran V ^a   Ritcey, Anna ^b   Bazuin, C Geraldine ^b   Rahem, Tarik ^b  

^a CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HOLOGRAMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTODETECTORS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANGULAR SELECTIVITY; CROSS MODULATION; POLARIZATION HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING; SCALAR RECORD; VECTOR RECORD;

HOLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032506501     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.008264     Document Type: Article

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