This paper presents the experimental study of the period- doubling phenomenon occurring during the multi-cycle processing procedure incorporating the exposure of Ag halide photoemulsion with the primary recorded holographic structure to the short-wave UV radiation, washing and drying. It is suggested that the simultaneous presence of two contrary photochemical processes -- photodecomposition and radiation hardening in the gelatin results in instability of the primary holographic structure and in the formation of the spatial subharmonic of the surface relief. The phenomenon may be considered as a process of the self-organization initiated by instability of the macrostructure on a rearrangement of the microstructure on the molecule level. The period-doubling phenomenon has been found to occur in the experiments with the UV sources of a various spectral composition -- the mercury- vapor lamp and the excimer lamps operating on the mixtures of Xe+Cl₂ and Kr+Cl₂.

Date Published: 1 February 2001
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 4348, Fourth International Workshop on Nondestructive Testing and Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering, (1 February 2001); doi: 10.1117/12.417625

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4348:
Fourth International Workshop on Nondestructive Testing and Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering
Alexander I. Melker, Editor(s)