Bayfol® HX photopolymer films prove themselves as easy-to-process recording materials for volume holographic optical elements (vHOEs) and are available in customized grade at industrial scale. Their full-color (RGB) recording and replay capabilities are two of their major advantages. Moreover, the adjustable diffraction efficiency, tunable angular and spectral selectivity of vHOEs recorded into Bayfol® HX as well as their unmatched optical clarity enables superior invisible “off Bragg” optical functionality. As a film product, the replication of vHOEs in Bayfol® HX can be carried out in a highly cost-efficient and purely photonic roll-to-roll (R2R) process. Utilizing thermoplastic substrates, Bayfol® HX was demonstrated to be compatible to state-of-the-art plastic processing techniques like thermoforming, film insert molding and casting, which opened up using a variety of industry-proven integration technologies for vHOEs. Therefore, Bayfol® HX makes its way in applications in the field of augmented reality such as Head-up-Displays (HUD) and Head-mounted- Displays (HMD), in free-space combiners, in plastic optical waveguides, and in transparent screens. Also, vHOEs made from Bayfol® HX are utilized in highly sophisticated spectrometers in astronomy as well as in narrow band notch filters for eyeglasses against laser strikes. See through applications such as, HMD and HUD, have demanding performance requirements on combiner and imaging technologies such as efficiency, optical function, and clarity. The properties of Bayfol® HX make it well suited to solve these challenges in primary display, and near-infrared imaging applications such as eye-tracking, while maintaining the requirements on optical performance. We demonstrate practical examples of Bayfol® HX vHOE’s using novel holography techniques for spatially varying diffraction efficiency.


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    Title :

    Generating diffraction efficiency profiles in Bayfol HX vHOEs



    Conference:

    Holography: Advances and Modern Trends VIII ; 2023 ; Prague, Czech Republic


    Published in:

    Proc. SPIE ; 12574


    Publication date :

    2023-05-31





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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