Digital holographic data storage in a high-performance photorefractive polymer composite

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 3395-3401

  Rahn, Mark D ^a,b   West, David P ^a   Khand, Kaleemullah ^a   Shakos, John D ^a   Shelby, Robert M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DIGITAL STORAGE; HOLOGRAMS; HOLOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

STORAGE DENSITY;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 0001267361     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003395     Document Type: Article

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