Photoformers: materials for holographic recording

Processes of phase hologram recording in binary photopolymeric media have been considered. These media are based on two monomers having different polymerization rates and forming polymers with different refractive indexes. The mechanism of inhomogeneous structures formation in such media includes two main processes: radical polymerization and diffusion mass transfer. The general equations systems has been theoretically investigated, which describes the dynamics of inhomogeneous photopolymerization in complex polymeric compositions.