Holographic Recording Performance of Acrylate-Based Photopolymer under Different Preparation Conditions for Waveguide Display

• DOI: 10.3390/polym13060936
• Publication Date: 2021-03-19T02:19:36Z
• Authors: Zhongwen Shen; Yishi Weng; Yuning Zhang; Chuang Wang; Ao Liu; Xiaohua Li
• Keywords: gratings; 13. Climate action; 0103 physical sciences; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; holography; 02 engineering and technology; photopolymer; optical waveguides; 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy; Article

This work proposes a green light-sensitive acrylate-based photopolymer. The effects of the preparation conditions for the waveguide applied volume holographic gratings (VHGs) were experimentally investigated. The optimum preparation conditions for holographic recording were revealed. After optimization, the peak of VHG diffraction efficiency reached 99%, the diffractive wavelength bandwidth increased from 13 nm to 22 nm, and the corresponding RIM was 0.06. To prove the wide application prospect of the acrylate-based photopolymer in head-mounted augmented reality (AR) displays, green monochromatic volume holographic waveguides were fabricated. The display results showed that the prototype was able to achieve a 28° diagonal FOV and possessed a system luminance of 300 cd/m2.