Abstract
A hologram recorded in a CaF2 crystal by modulating the concentration of simple centers (F, M, R, and N) and highly aggregated (mainly colloidal) color centers has been exposed to incoherent 365-nm light to a dose of about 4000 J/cm2 at a temperature of 80°C. As a result of this exposure, the color centers were almost completely transformed into quasi-colloidal centers. The hologram was retained, and its diffraction efficiency increased; the intensity and number of observed diffraction orders increased as well. Analysis of the angular dependences of the diffraction response made it possible to construct a spatial profile of the hologram, which turned out to be much narrower in comparison with the initial-hologram profile; both profiles differ from a sinusoidal one. The hologram’s stability to such a large exposure to incoherent light at an elevated temperature is related to the peculiar diffusion-drift mechanism of hologram recording on color centers in ionic crystals.
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