Daisuke SAKAI, Kenji HARADA, Shun-ichi KAMEMARU, Daisuke BARADA^1,2, Fuminobu SATO², and Takashi FUKUDA²

Department of Computer Science, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Koen-cho, Kitami, Hokkaido 090-8507, Japan
¹Center for Optical Research and Education, Utsunomiya University, 7-1-2 Yoto, Utsunomiya 321-8585, Japan
²Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST Tsukuba Central 5, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan

(Received July 15, 2008; Accepted January 29, 2009)

We propose a method of hologram recording in a glass plate by corona charging. The holographic recording materials used in this study are conventional soda-lime glass and azobenzene polymer film. A Fourier transform hologram on an azobenzene polymer film coated on the glass plate is recorded in the glass plate by corona charging. After removing the polymer film, the hologram recorded in the plate can be reconstructed using a visible-wavelength laser beam. The first-order diffraction efficiency of the hologram at a wavelength of 532 nm is 0.03%; the efficiency depends on the depth of the surface relief structure on the azobenzene polymer film and the corona-charging time. The hologram recorded in the glass plate has high environmental resistance.

Key words: hologram, glass, corona charging, azobenzene polymer, surface relief grating