Abstract
Polarization modulation was achieved by means of a new type of grating recorded with two 532nm beams at varying polarization angles in an azobenzene side-chain liquid-crystalline polymer film through light regulation instead of voltage control. In contrast to conventional polarization holographic gratings, the polarization state of the ± first-order diffracted beams of the recorded gratings depended strongly on angles between polarization directions of two recording beams, while the polarization state of the second-order diffraction remained unchanged. With the polarization angle changing from 0 to 90deg, the ± first-order diffraction efficiency increased from 5.15% to 10.53%. Diffraction properties of the recorded gratings were attributed to the combination of polarization holographic gratings and amplitude gratings based on the calculation of Jones matrices and polarization holographic theory.
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