R&D: Study of Holographic Recording Properties of Photosensitive Nanocomposite Containing Magnetic Nanoparticles

SPIE Digital Library as published, in Proceedings Volume 11367, Photosensitive Materials and their Applications, an article written by Muhammad Irfan, Suzanne Martin, Izabela Naydenova, Technological Univ., Dublin, Ireland

Abstract: “Materials research in holography has attracted significant interest and is aiming at facilitating the development of light-weight, cost effective optical devices. Among the most researched materials, photopolymers are playing an indispensable role due to many advantages they offer such as their self-processing nature, high spectral sensitivity and relatively inexpensive mass production cost; hence they are extensively studied to make possible the applications of holographic technology such as holographic interferometry [1], holographic solar concentrators [2], holographic data storage [3] and holographic sensors [4]. Additionally photopolymers can be easily functionalised utilising different methods; one approach, previously proven to be successful, is to dope the host polymer with nanoparticles (NP’s) [4].“