479 research outputs found
Reversible recording medium based on optical storage of information, method of reversible recording on such a medium.
A reversible recording medium based on optical storage of at least one item ofinformation within a support material, includes at least one layer of support material having: base molecules able to take, in a local zone, a first collective state of molecules able to generate a first signal of second harmonic characteristic of this first collective state of molecules when excited by electromagnetic reading radiation; the base molecules having the first collective state of molecules able to transform, at least in part, into transformed molecules so as to pass to a second collective state of molecules when excited by electromagnetic writing radiation, the molecules having the second collective state of molecules able to generate a second signal of second harmonic characteristic of this second collective state of molecules when excited by the electromagnetic reading radiation. The molecules exhibit a molecular structure based on a coumarin skeleton of Formula (I)
Reversible Two-Photon Optical Data Storage in Coumarin-Based Copolymers
A functionalized polymer film allowing for a complete and straightforward second-harmonic generation (SHG)-assisted high-contrast writing?reading?erasing?writing sequence is proposed. The whole process is supported by the reversible photoinduced dimerization of a coumarin chromophore and enables efficient optical data storage that can be detected only by SHG imaging
Efficient Seeds Computation Revisited
The notion of the cover is a generalization of a period of a string, and
there are linear time algorithms for finding the shortest cover. The seed is a
more complicated generalization of periodicity, it is a cover of a superstring
of a given string, and the shortest seed problem is of much higher algorithmic
difficulty. The problem is not well understood, no linear time algorithm is
known. In the paper we give linear time algorithms for some of its versions ---
computing shortest left-seed array, longest left-seed array and checking for
seeds of a given length. The algorithm for the last problem is used to compute
the seed array of a string (i.e., the shortest seeds for all the prefixes of
the string) in time. We describe also a simpler alternative algorithm
computing efficiently the shortest seeds. As a by-product we obtain an
time algorithm checking if the shortest seed has length at
least and finding the corresponding seed. We also correct some important
details missing in the previously known shortest-seed algorithm (Iliopoulos et
al., 1996).Comment: 14 pages, accepted to CPM 201
Third-order nonlinear optical response of push-pull azobenzene polymers
The nonlinear optical response of a series of azo-containing side-chain polymers is investigated using Z-scan technique, employing 35 ps and 4 ns laser pulses, at 532 nm. The systems were found to exhibit strong nonlinear optical response, dominated by nonlinear refraction. In all cases, the nonlinear absorption and refraction have been determined and are compared with those of disperse red 1 considered as reference. The corresponding third-order susceptibilities chi((3)) were determined to be as large as 10 (7) and 10 (5) esu under ps and ns laser excitation, respectively. Finally, the results are discussed and compared with other reported data
Effect of poling in Polymers Containing Azobenzene Push–Pull Chromophores on nonlinear optic of second and third order
International audienc
Nonlinear Optical Image Storage by photoinduced cross-linking of coumarins
Date du colloque : 09/2011International audienc
Investigation of the Nonlinear Optical Response in Polymeric Azoester Systems
The second and third-order nonlinear optical properties of novel push-pull azobenzene polymers have been investigated using 30 ps laser pulses at 1064 nm. The study of the chromophores has been done before and after corona poling and by employing different polarizations. Very strong nonlinear response, which was different for every investigated system has been found due to enhanced charge transfer within the molecules
Image storage in coumarin-based copolymer thin films by photoinduced dimerization
We report a technique to encode grayscale digital images in thin films composed of copolymers containing coumarins. A nonlinear microscopy setup was implemented and two nonlinear optical processes were used to store and read information. A third-order process (two-photon absorption) was used to photoinduce a controlled dimer-to-monomer ratio within a defined tiny volume in the material, which corresponds to each recorded bit of data. Moreover, a second-order process (second-harmonic generation) was used to read the stored information, which has been found to be highly dependent upon the monomer-to-dimer ratio
Coumarin-Containing Polymers for High Density Non-Linear Optical Data Storage
Optical data storage was performed with various thin polymer films containing coumarin-based derivatives and by using femtosecond laser pulses as well as two-photon absorption processes. Exploring the photodimerization attribute of coumarin derivatives and using appropriate irradiation wavelengths, recording/erasing processes could be carried out in the same area. Second harmonic generation microscopy was used to read the stored information
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