Nondestructive readout and transient erasure of photon-gated hole-burning holograms

Author

Rebane, A. ; Reiss, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

405

Abstract

Summary form only given. We present results on organic hole-burning material that we apply for recording of image holograms with picosecond pulses. We show that such holographic images can be read out repeatedly and with high doses of illumination. Furthermore, it is possible to use an intense readout laser beam to saturate the absorption of the material at the resonance frequency where the hologram is recorded, without actually destroying the stored information.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; holographic storage; laser beams; optical hole burning; optical images; optical materials; optical saturable absorption; high illumination dose; holographic images; holographic storage; image hologram recording; intense readout laser beam; nondestructive readout; optical saturable absorption; organic hole-burning material; photon-gated hole-burning holograms; picosecond pulses; resonance frequency; transient erasure; Glass; Holography; Ionization; Laser beams; Nonlinear optics; Optical materials; Optical recording; Photonic band gap; Resonance; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676407

Filename

676407