Characterization of a real-time high-sensitivity photopolymer for holographic display and holographic interferometry

In this paper, a red-sensitive photopolymer based on multiple polymerizable monomers is developed for holographic applications. The detailed quantitative experiments on the reagent concentrations, the exposure, the thickness of the photosensitive layer, are conducted to determine an optimum recipe, and bright volume phase holograms with high diffraction efficiency are obtained in our experiments at the exposure level of 4mJ/cm 2 . This photopolymer also has higher resolution and self-development capacity. This makes it very convenient and useful for the applications of both real-time and double exposure holographic interferometry, some preliminary experiments of holographic interferometry are demonstrated in this paper for the nondestructive testing and measurement of minor distortion and displacement.