Polarization storage by nonlinear orientational hole burning in azo dye-containing polymer films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 351-353

  Maeda, Makoto ^a   Ishitobi, Hidekazu ^a   Sekkat, Zouheir ^a,b   Kawata, Satoshi ^a,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AL AKHAWAYN UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AZO DYES; CHROMOPHORES; COMBUSTION; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SCANNING; TITANIUM;

NUMERICAL APERTURE (NA); ORIENTATIONAL HOLE BURNING (OHB); ROOM TEMPERATURE (RT); TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION (TPA);

PLASTIC FILMS;

EID: 4043076917     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1772522     Document Type: Article

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