Light propagation in a multilayered medium for three-dimensional optical memory

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 28, 2005, Pages 5966-5971

  Nakano, Masaharu ^a   Kawata, Yoshimasa ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THIN FILMS;

MULTILAYERED BEAMS; SIGNAL INTENSITY; TRANSPARENT FILMS;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 28044462203     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005966     Document Type: Article

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