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A study of the optimization and the characteristics of a dry film photopolymerizable recording material is presented. The effects of intensity, the thickness, and the variation of the concentration of each component have been studied. Diffraction efficiencies of 80%, with energetic sensitivities of 40 mJ/cm(2), have been obtained in photosensitive films of a 35-mum thickness with a spatial frequency of 1000 lines/mm.

In this paper, we describe a photopolymerizable silica glass based on acrylamide (AA) and N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide (BMA) as monomers, triethanolamine (TEA) as coinitiator and yellowish eosin (YE) as photoinitiator. We studied different compositions, analyzing the diffraction efficiency, energetic exposure and effective thickness obtained in the holographic gratings. A diffraction efficiency of 60 % with an energetic exposure of 139 mJ/cm(2) and an effective thickness of 1.1 mm were obtained. Also, by varying the photopolymerizable composition of the material diffraction efficiencies higher than 80 % can be reached with an energetic exposure of 10 mJ/cm(2) and an effective thickness of 113 microm. These values are similar to those obtained in conventional photopolymer systems in polyvinylalcohol and better than the values reached in other sol-gel compositions. Also, 9 holograms were angular multiplexed with diffraction efficiencies between 6 and 12 % and total exposure time shorter than 150 ms, with a dynamic range M/#= 2.4.

We describe the recording of holographic gratings in a photopolymerizable sol-gel glass based on acrylamide as monomer, triethanolamine as coinitiator, and yellowish eosin as photoinitiator. Although acrylic monomers have been introduced in silica glass by Cheben and Calvo [Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 1490 (2001)], the well-known acrylamide based composition has not yet been produced by this method. Diffraction efficiencies close to 55% were obtained with an exposure of 8 mJ/cm2. The holographic gratings were not stable and we made use of this instability to determine the diffusion coefficients of acrylamide and polyacrylamide inside this glass.

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