Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.344, 23-30, 2000
Characterization of organic photochromic materials as 3-D optical data storage media
We present our work on data storage and characterization in photochromic materials, and have succeeded in recording data at a total of 26 overlapping layers. The effect of bit depth and bit size were investigated by varying exposure time of the sample to the laser pulses. Bit size and bit depth were found to increase with exposure time and optimizing their values would increase the density of the possible number of data stored in a photochromic medium.