• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 51, Issue 5, 0509001 (2022)
Biao KANG1、2, Huaqing LÜ1、2, Yourong LIU1、2, Shaoxin LI1、2, and Jihong ZHENG1、2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Shanghai Science and Technology,Shanghai 200093,China
  • 2Shanghai Key Lab of Modern Optical System,University of Shanghai Science and Technology,Shanghai 200093,China
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    DOI: 10.3788/gzxb20225105.0509001 Cite this Article
    Biao KANG, Huaqing LÜ, Yourong LIU, Shaoxin LI, Jihong ZHENG. Holographic Properties of Acrylate Photopolymer Materials with Double Monomers[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(5): 0509001 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In recent years, due to the excellent characteristics of photopolymer recording materials such as high diffraction efficiency, high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio, they have gradually emerged in volume holographic storage, fiber Bragg grating, waveguide, sensing and communication applications, and achieved a lot of significant results. Among them, a large number of acrylate photopolymers with stable performance, many kinds and low price have been studied. However, acrylate photopolymers have some defects, such as large shrinkage, small refractive index modulation and low stability. These problems hinder the expansion and further application of acrylate photopolymers. Based on the above research, the effects of various components in the photopolymer based on TMPTA double monomer system were studied, and a variety of photopolymer materials based on TMPTA double monomer system were compared in this paper. Combined with the diffusion movement of monomers, the effects of different film-forming resins, active monomers and photoinitiators on photopolymers were studied, and the ratio of materials was optimized. In technology, the system does not require solvent wet treatment. Just mix the medicine evenly and inject it into the mold prepared by two specific pieces of transparent glass. The thickness of the sample can be controlled by the gasket between the glasses, so it is easy to make a film with controllable thickness. Finally, bisphenol A epoxy resin and acrylate monomer TMPTA were selected in different double monomer systems. This is because the reaction activity of epoxy resin and acrylate monomer TMPTA is different, and the polymerization rate of TMPTA is much faster. When TMPTA molecules polymerize rapidly at the bright stripes, the epoxy resin is still colloidal and does not react, which is conducive to the diffusion of TMPTA molecules. Therefore, the two monomers can be separated from each other, resulting in a large refractive index difference. The network structure formed after TMPTA polymerization is combined with epoxy group to initiate epoxy group ring opening, and epoxy group is continuously inserted into it to realize chain growth, branching and crosslinking. A highly crosslinked stable structure is formed in the material. The photoinitiator is high reactive orange solid irgacure 784. Under the 532 nm laser, the ground state of irgacure 784 molecule absorbs photons rapidly, transitions to the excited state, and photodissociates. It forms a product state that is very transparent to visible light. In this system, irgacure 784 molecule first isomerized under the irradiation of coherent light to obtain the coordination unsaturated titanium central double free ground state. Then it initiated the free radical polymerization of TMPTA monomer. Finally, the ring opening polymerization of epoxy resin was carried out under the subsequent treatment. The material thus exhibits high stability and low shrinkage. By introducing double photoinitiators, the polymerization rate of active monomers was greatly accelerated, and the photosensitive sensitivity and photosensitive wavelength range of the system were improved. At the same time, the information is successfully recorded in polymer film samples, which proves that it has good holographic recording and high resolution performance. The holographic parameters are tested, which include diffraction efficiency of materials under different exposure intensity, exposure time and temperature. It shows that the double monomer system has better diffraction efficiency at exposure light intensity of 10~15 mW/cm2, time of 40~80 s and temperature of 46 ℃ than at the other conditions. The experimental results show that the system with good high temperature resistance manifests that the diffraction efficiency is up to 91.5% and the refractive index is more than 2.98×10-3, also, the transmittance is over 95.6%, which is under the conditions of a recording angle of 30°and a thickness of 70 μm. After 72 hours of high and low temperature cycling in the test chamber, the diffraction efficiency decreased to 87.2% and the decrease range was 4.7%. The temperature in the box is maintained at 80 ℃ and the humidity is 80 RH. The shrinkage of Bimonomer photopolymer system is only 0.504%.As a holographic recording medium, it can effectively record holographic information with high resolution and high diffraction efficiency. Due to the high diffraction efficiency and high stability of the polymer, the material is more suitable for other applications such as hologram and permanent storage of big data.
    Biao KANG, Huaqing LÜ, Yourong LIU, Shaoxin LI, Jihong ZHENG. Holographic Properties of Acrylate Photopolymer Materials with Double Monomers[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(5): 0509001
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