A new type of reflective hologram with both high angular and spectral selectivity is suggested. With novel design of crossed gratings inside the volume hologram, unusual angular selectivity is achieved via coupling of four waves. Analytic solution with spectral and angular detuning from Bragg regime is derived. The compensation between these two detuning forms an interesting figure of saddle shape.

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Bell Syst. Tech. J.

• H. Kogelnik, "Coupled Wave Theory for Thick Hologram Gratings", Bell Syst. Tech. J., 48, 2909 (1969)

Glass Science and Technology

• L.B. Glebov, "Volume hologram recording in inorganic glasses," Glass Science and Technology 75C1, 73-90 (2002).

J. Opt. Soc. Am.

• R. Alferness, S.K. Case, " Coupling in doubly exposed, thick holographic gratings", J. Opt. Soc. Am., 65, 730-739 (1975) [CrossRef]
• M. G. Moharam and T. K. Gaylord, "Rigorous coupled-wave analysis of planar-grating diffraction," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71, 811-818 (1981) [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

• J. Zhao, Pochi Yeh, M. Khoshnevisan, and I. McMichael, "Diffraction properties of vector synthetic volume index gratings", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 17, 898-903 (2000). [CrossRef]
• D.K. Jacob, S.C. Dunn, M. G. Moharam, "Normally incident resonant grating reflection filters for efficient narrow-band spectral filtering of finite beams", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 18, 2109-2120 (2001). [CrossRef]

MTT

• S. T. Peng, T. Tamir, and H. L. Bertoni, "Theory of periodic dielectric waveguides", Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., MTT- 23, 123-133 (1975). [CrossRef]

Opt. Lett.

• C.-C. Tsai, L. B. Glebov, B. Ya. Zeldovich, "Adiabatic three-wave volume hologram: large efficiency independent on grating strength and polarization", Opt. Lett. 31, 718-720 (2006) [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Other

• O.M. Efimov, L.B. Glebov, L.N. Glebova, K.C. Richardson, and V.I. Smirnov, "High-Efficiency Bragg Gratings in Photothermorefractive Glass," Appl. Opt. 38, 619-627 (1999).
• L.B. Glebov, V.I. Smirnov, C.M. Stickley, I.V. Ciapurin, "New approach to robust optics for HEL systems", In Laser Weapons Technology III, W.E. Thompson and P.H. Merritt, eds., Proc. SPIE, 4724, 101-109 (2002).

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