Abstract

Stratified volume holographic optical elements (SVHOE’s) comprise a recently proposed class of novel diffraction structure, it’s unique angular selectivity of the SVHOE’s Bragg diffraction process have more promising applications. The previous study of SVHOE’s are mainly based on isotropic materials, in this paper we study the diffraction properties of holographic gratings in anisotropic media separated by buffer layers using the method of Coupled wave theory. It is shown that the diffraction efficiency of such system also exist the uniform periodic angular sensitivity, in addition the dependence of the periodic SVHOE angular sensitivity on number of layers and total SVHOE thickness have been discussed.

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