1. Faculty of Physics, Physics of Functional Materials, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090, Wien, Austria 2. Department of Engineering Science, University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo 182, Japan
Abstract:
We perform experiments on the direction of the diffracted beam in off-Bragg replay for volume holographic gratings. The obtained results clearly verify the assumptions made by the first-order two-wave coupling theory for one dimensional lossless unslanted planar volume gratings using the beta-value method rather than Kogelnik??s K-vector closure method.