Three-dimensional write-read-erase memory bits by femtosecond laser pulses in photorefractive LiNbO3 crystals

Current Applied Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 416-419

  Gamaly, Eugene G ^a   Juodkazis, Saulius ^b   Mizeikis, Vygantas ^b   Misawa, Hiroaki ^b   Rode, Andrei V ^a   Krolikowski, Wieslaw Z ^a   Kitamura, Kenji ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

42.50Gy; 77.84Dy; 78.20Bh; 78.47+p; Femtosecond laser microfabrication; Lithium niobate; Photovoltaic effect; Three dimensional optical memory

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STOICHIOMETRY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FEMTOSECOND LASER MICROFABRICATION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL OPTICAL MEMORY;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 38649095208     PISSN: 15671739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cap.2007.10.072     Document Type: Article

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