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Formation of gradient polymer lenses by non-stationary luminous flux

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The diffusion processes in a layer of a photopolymerizable composition stimulated by non-stationary optical radiation causing the relocation of the neutral component concentration and formation of smooth distributions of the refractive index were investigated. By the method of computer simulation, it was shown that with the photopolymerization of such a multi-component medium, moving the illumination boundary along the polymerized layer makes it possible to create gradient polymer lenses with a parabolic and Gaussian profile of the refractive index. The experimental results on the optical formation of flat elements of gradient polymeric optics from the industrial oligomer OCM-2 with butanol as a neutral component are presented.

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This work was supported by by the Russian Science Foundation (proj. no. 15-13-00137-P).

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  1. G.A.Razuvaev Institute of Organometallic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Science (RAS), Tropinin st., 49, 603137, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    Yuri Victorovich Polushtaytsev & Sergey Nickolaevich Mensov

  2. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Gagarin pr., 23, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    Sergey Nickolaevich Mensov

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Polushtaytsev, Y.V., Mensov, S.N. Formation of gradient polymer lenses by non-stationary luminous flux. J Polym Res 26, 273 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-019-1968-1

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