New developments in photochromic materials for volume phase holographic gratings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6273 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bianco, Andrea ^a,b,c   Bertarelli, Chiara ^b   Conconi, Paolo ^a   Molinari, Emilio ^a   Quaglia, Clara ^b   Toso, Giorgio ^a,b   Zerbi, Filippo Maria ^a   Zerbi, Giuseppe ^b  

^a INAF IASF MILANO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diarylethenes; Gratings; Photochromism; Refractive index; Spectrograph; VPHG

Indexed keywords

DIARYLETHENES; PHOTOCHROMIC POLYESTERS; VOLUME PHASE HOLOGRAPHIE GRATINGS (VPHG);

HOLOGRAPHY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTOCHROMISM; POLYESTERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROGRAPHS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 33749605629     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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