Theoretical study of signal-to-noise ratio on near-field photochromic memory with fluorescence readout

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 5066-5072

  Tsujioka, Tsuyoshi ^a   Irie, Masahiro ^b  

^a SANYO ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT SENSITIVE MATERIALS; PHOTOCHROMISM; SHOT NOISE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FLUORESCENCE READOUT; NEAR FIELD PHOTOCHROMIC MEMORY;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 0032606679     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005066     Document Type: Article

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