Circularly polarized light-induced rearrangement of optical axis in photoanisotropic recording media

Artashes Yavrian; Tigran V. Galstian; Michel Piche

doi:10.1117/1.1456540

1 April 2002 Circularly polarized light-induced rearrangement of optical axis in photoanisotropic recording media

Artashes Yavrian, Tigran V. Galstian, Michel Piche

Optical Engineering, Vol. 41, Issue 4, (April 2002). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1456540

The rearrangement of the optical axis in reversible photoanisotropic media under the action of a circularly polarized beam is demonstrated and quantitatively measured. These results are used to clarify the term ''optical erasure'' in reversible storage media. The detected residual anisotropy is taken into account to estimate the degradation of the signal to noise ratio in a storage device with a tilted readout design.

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Artashes Yavrian, Tigran V. Galstian, and Michel Piche "Circularly polarized light-induced rearrangement of optical axis in photoanisotropic recording media," Optical Engineering 41(4), (1 April 2002). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1456540

Published: 1 April 2002

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