Abstract

AbstractPolymethylmethacrylate has been sensitized to 4880 A light and used as a holographic recording medium. The polymer is sensitized with a material which may itsel be degraded by exposure to ultraviolet light. The new process is, therefore, both self‐developing and fixable without chemical processing. Holographic diffraction gratings written into this material have diffracting efficiencies as high as 70 percent. Various parameters such as angular selectivity, film thickness, variation of diffracting efficiency with writing angle etc., have been studied. The spontaneously produced diffracted intensity is so high that efficient interference between first and zero ordes is observed during the writing process.

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