Development of full color holographic optical element recorded on aspherical substrate with photopolymer

Holographic optical element (HOE) have classically been designed using grating theory, logically so, since an HOE is a grating produced on film by two interfering beams of coherent light. This paper describes the development of full color HOE recorded on aspherical substrate using a photopolymer. The reflection HOE was evaluated by measuring the diffraction efficiencies of holographic volume gratings recorded individually at 633 nm, 532 nm, and 473nm wavelengths. The spectral characterization of the HOE, recorded using a combined single beam, and recorded using sequential beam, was carried out. Practical methods for fabrication of high efficiency aspheric HOE by single layer photopolymer were developed.