Dark decay of holograms in photorefractive polymers
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چکیده
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. © 2002 American Institute of Physics. @DOI: 10.1063/1.1492848#
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