Physical properties of photopolymer recording for nonvolatile volume holographic storage

We evaluate the physical properties of volume holographic recording in photopolymer that allow for high performance nonvolatile digital data storage. We identified efficient volume grating formation for photoinitiated cationic-ring- opening polymerization that utilizes unrestricted monomer diffusive transport contributions in the grating development process during and after exposure.© (1999) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.