Materials research in holography has attracted significant interest and is aiming at facilitating the development of light-weight, cost effective optical devices. Among the most researched materials, photopolymers are playing an indispensable role due to many advantages they offer such as their self-processing nature, high spectral sensitivity and relatively inexpensive mass production cost; hence they are extensively studied to make possible the applications of holographic technology such as holographic interferometry [1], holographic solar concentrators [2], holographic data storage [3] and holographic sensors [4]. Additionally photopolymers can be easily functionalised utilising different methods; one approach, previously proven to be successful, is to dope the host polymer with nanoparticles (NP’s) [4].
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