Polarization sensitivity of photopolymer-based volume holograms for one-to-many surface normal optical interconnects

Jian Liu; Zhenhai Fu; Ray T. Chen

doi:10.1117/1.602022

1 February 1998 Polarization sensitivity of photopolymer-based volume holograms for one-to-many surface normal optical interconnects

Jian Liu, Zhenhai Fu, Ray T. Chen

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 37, Issue 2, (February 1998). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602022

Polarization dependence of photopolymer-based volume holograms for substrate-guided-wave optical interconnects with surface normal configuration is investigated. Energy optimization and the tradeoff between energy equalization and polarization insensitivity of one-to- many cascaded interconnects are discussed. DuPont photopolymer film HRF 600X001-20 was employed in our experiment. A volume hologram with diffraction efficiency of 91.5%± 1.5% is achieved for different linearly polarized optical waves. A 1-to-9 fanout device with ± 5% energy fluctuation for a randomly polarized input optical wave at 632.8 nm has been fabricated for evaluating the trade-off under p and s waves. As the Mylar substrate of the photopolymer films has strong effects in changing incident linearly polarized light into elliptically polarized light, the energy uniformity of a practical device can be improved significantly. The developed theory is applicable to any volume hologram.

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Jian Liu, Zhenhai Fu, and Ray T. Chen "Polarization sensitivity of photopolymer-based volume holograms for one-to-many surface normal optical interconnects," Optical Engineering 37(2), (1 February 1998). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602022

Published: 1 February 1998

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