Multiplexing recording in nickel-ion-doped photopolymer material for holographic data storage applications

In the present study, a series of holographic gratings were recorded in a single location of nickel-ion-doped photo-polymer film using different methods of multiplexing. The uniformity of their diffraction efficiency was shown to improve by using an exposure time scheduling method for holographic recording. Thirty-five gratings were recorded in the 130 mu m thick photopolymer material with M# = 6.18 and an average diffraction efficiency of 3.24% using peristrophic multiplexing. In the next step, a combination of peristrophic and angular multiplexing was used for storing 50 gratings in the material with a dynamic range of 7 and a mean diffraction efficiency of 2.15%. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America