Reversible optical storage utilizing pulsed, photoinduced, electric‐field‐assisted reorientation of azobenzenes
作者:
R. A. Hill,
S. Dreher,
A. Knoesen,
D. R. Yankelevich,
期刊:
Applied Physics Letters
(AIP Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 66,
issue 17
页码: 2156-2158
ISSN:0003-6951
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1063/1.113931
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
We demonstrate a method of permanent optical recording of digital data which exploits a fast photoisomerization of nonlinear molecules, followed by a slow permanent alignment within a polymer. Write and erase cycles are initiated by rapidly photoisomerizing azobenzene molecules into an intermediate state with a larger mobility. The molecules align or randomly orient within the polymer depending on the presence or absence of an electric field. During orientation, relaxation to a stable isomer occurs and the alignment becomes permanent. The recorded information can then be nondestructively read by second‐harmonic generation. Nanosecond optical exposures were used, demonstrating that extremely fast recording rates are possible. ©1995 American Institute of Physics.
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