The disclosure provides specific initiator/mediator chemistry for latent imaging polymers for volume Bragg gratings. Light mediated chemistry including the use of nitroxides allows a first step imaging to occur, where a light induced pattern is recorded in the material, without the grating being apparent. A second bleaching/developing step completes the curing process and reveals the grating.

The present disclosure is to provide a photopolymer composition including a polymer matrix or a precursor thereof including a reaction product of a reactive isocyanate compound having a hydrogen bonding functional group capable of forming multiple hydrogen bonds and at least one isocyanate group, and a polyol having at least two hydroxyl groups; a photoreactive monomer; and a photoinitiator, a hologram recording medium produced from the photopolymer composition, an optical element including the photopolymer composition and a holographic recording method using the photopolymer composition.

Techniques disclosed herein relate to holographic optical materials and elements. An example of a holographic recording material includes matrix monomers characterized by a first refractive index and configured to polymerize to form a polymer matrix, writing monomers dispersed in the matrix monomers and characterized by a second refractive index different from the first refractive index, and a photocatalyst for controlled radical polymerization of the writing monomers. The writing monomers are configured to polymerize upon exposed to recording light. The photocatalyst is dispersed in the matrix monomers. The photocatalyst includes, for example, a transition metal photocatalyst or a metal-free organic photocatalyst, such as a photocatalyst for atom transfer radical polymerization or a transition metal photocatalyst for addition fragmentation chain transfer polymerization.

The disclosure provides thermally reversible and reorganizable polymers for volume Bragg gratings. These polymers can be used in any volume Bragg gratings materials, but they are particularly useful in two-stage polymer materials where a matrix is cured in a first step, and then the volume Bragg grating is written by way of a second curing step of a monomer. The reorganizable polymers are part of the matrix, and when heat is applied, specific crosslinked bonds break up allowing the material to relax, and permitting more monomers for the second writing step to enter the matrix. When heat is removed, crosslinking bonds re-form but with different, reorganized, bonding partners.

A photopolymerizable composition including: a polymer matrix or a precursor thereof containing a reaction product of an acrylate-based polyol and a compound containing at least one isocyanate group; a photoreactive monomer; and a non-reactive fluoro compound and a photoinitiator; a hologram recording medium produced from the composition; an optical element including the hologram recording medium; and a method of recording a hologram using the photopolymerizable composition.

A photopolymerizable composition including: a polymer matrix or a precursor thereof containing a reaction product of an acrylate-based polyol and a compound containing at least one isocyanate group; a photoreactive monomer; and a non-reactive fluoro compound and a photoinitiator; a hologram recording medium produced from the composition; an optical element including the hologram recording medium; and a method of recording a hologram using the photopolymerizable composition.

The present disclosure is to provide a photopolymer composition including a polymer matrix or a precursor thereof having a specific chemical structure; a photoreactive monomer; and a photoinitiator. The present disclosure is also to provide a hologram recording medium, an optical element, and a holographic recording method using the photopolymer composition.

The present disclosure relates to a hologram recording medium having a main relaxation temperature (Tr) of 0 C. or less, wherein the Tr is a point where a rate of change of phase angle with respect to temperature is the largest in a range of 80 C. to 30 C. in dynamic mechanical analysis. The present disclosure also relates to an optical element including the same and a holographic recording method using the hologram recording medium.

Provided are media, systems and methods for optical data storage. A nanocomposite material for use as an optical data recording medium comprises nanoparticles embedded in a host matrix, wherein the host matrix comprises a material having a high structural stability, and the nanoparticles comprise optical functional components having a first physical or chemical state and a property of permanent transition to a second physical or chemical state upon exposure to corresponding optical radiation, whereby information may be recorded in the first and second physical or chemical states of the optical functional components over an extended time period.

Provided are media, systems and methods for optical data storage. A nanocomposite material for use as an optical data recording medium comprises nanoparticles embedded in a host matrix, wherein the host matrix comprises a material having a high structural stability, and the nanoparticles comprise optical functional components having a first physical or chemical state and a property of permanent transition to a second physical or chemical state upon exposure to corresponding optical radiation, whereby information may be recorded in the first and second physical or chemical states of the optical functional components over an extended time period.