Three-dimensional optical memory using a human fingernail

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4560-4567

  Takita, Akihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Hirotsugu ^a   Hayasaki, Yoshio ^a   Nishida, Nobuo ^a   Misawa, Hiroaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FLUORESCENCE; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; PROTEINS;

AUTO-FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; HUMAN FINGERNAIL; IRRADIATED PULSE ENERGY;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 22744453968     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004560     Document Type: Article

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