Abstract

Two kinds of photoinduced periodic microstructures in azodye-doped polymethylmethacrylate were fabricated by interference of two coherent beams of a nonresonant femtosecond laser. One is volume holographic gratings induced by interference of two fs-laser beams with same frequency; the other is molecular polar orientation induced by dual-frequency coherent fs-laser excitation at fundamental and second harmonic frequencies. The photoinduced holographic gratings consist of two surface relief gratings and refractive index modulated gratings in the interior of the polymers. Diffraction efficiency up to 90% of the first-order Bragg for the gratings was obtained. For the photoinduced molecular polar orientation, three kinds of noncentrosymmetries of the polymer films were optically tailored using appropriate combinations of the writing beam polarizations.

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