title: Thermal fixing of 10,000 Holograms in LiNbO3:Fe.
abstract: We discuss thermal fixing as a solution to the volatility problem in holographic storage systems that use photorefractive materials such as LiNbO(3):Fe. We present a systematic study to characterize the effect of thermal fixing on the error performance of a large-scale holographic memory. We introduce a novel, to our knowledge, incremental fixing schedule to improve the overall system fixing efficiency. We thermally fixed 10,000 holograms in a 90 degrees -geometry setup by using this new schedule. All the fixed holograms were retrieved with no errors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Mail Stop 136-93, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA. axin@sunoptics.caltech.edu
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