Bittner, Reinhard and Meerholz, Klaus and Steckman, Gregory and Psaltis, Demetri (2002) Dark decay of holograms in photorefractive polymers. Applied Physics Letters, 81 (2). pp. 211-213. ISSN 0003-6951. doi:10.1063/1.1492848. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:BITapl02
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Abstract
The decay of holograms stored in photorefractive polymer composites based on poly(N-vinyl-carbazole) with and without extrinsic deep traps is investigated. The photorefractive phase shift is identified as one of the key parameters determining the dark decay dynamics. This has important implications for all kinds of photorefractive imaging applications including holographic data storage. A trade off will be required between accepting a certain degree of hologram distortion due to two-beam coupling on the one hand and achieving high hologram stability during idle periods in the dark with the external field applied on the other.
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| Additional Information: | ©2002 American Institute of Physics. (Received 20 December 2001; accepted 14 May 2002) This work was supported by the Volkswagen Foundation (Germany), the European Space Agency (ESA), the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (Germany), the Bavarian–California Technology Center (BaCaTec, Germany), and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD, Germany). The authors acknowledge fruitful discussions with E. Mecher and F. GallegoGomez (both of the University of Munich). | ||||||
| Subject Keywords: | photorefractive effect; filled polymers; holographic storage; photorefractive materials; optical polymers; multiwave mixing | ||||||
| Issue or Number: | 2 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.1492848 | ||||||
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