Abstract:
A method of making a holographic data storage medium is provided. The method comprises: (a) providing an optically transparent substrate comprising at least one photochemically active dye; and (b) irradiating the optically transparent substrate at at least one wavelength at which the optically transparent substrate has an absorbance in a range from about 0.1 to 1, to produce a modified optically transparent substrate comprising at least one optically readable datum and at least one photo-product of the photochemically active dye. The at least one wavelength is in a range from about 300 nanometers to about 800 nanometers. The optically transparent substrate is at least 100 micrometers thick, and comprises the photochemically active dye in an amount corresponding to from about 0.1 to about 10 weight percent based on a total weight of the optically transparent substrate.
Abstract:
A mask layer for a high-density near-field optical storage system includes nonlinear optical material and nanoparticles embedded in the nonlinear optical material. The mask layer in combination with a data layer is useful for forming an optical disk. One technique for storing data in the optical disk includes using a gate beam to modify an index of refraction in a modified portion of the nonlinear optical material using a signal beam to provide nanoparticle resonance excitation of selected nanoparticles within the modified portion of the nonlinear optical material.
Abstract:
An optical system includes a radiation source, a radiation-illuminating device, and a radiation-collecting device. The radiation source is configured to generate radiation. The radiation-illuminating device is optically coupled to the radiation source and configured to direct and focus the radiation obliquely with respect to an optical axis thereof onto a sample. The radiation-collecting device is configured to collect back-scattered radiation scattered from the sample and spatially separated from noise radiation. Associated apparatus and method are also described.
Abstract:
An optical disc for micro-holographic data storage, including: optically- enabled material configured to store holographic data; guide grooves; a first coating disposed on the guide grooves and configured to reflect a tracking beam and to transmit a read or record beam; and a second coating disposed to cover the guide grooves and disposed on the first coating.
Abstract:
A system and method of operating a dual-beam detection system of a holographic data storage disc, including: impinging a data beam on a data layer of the holographic data storage disc; impinging a tracking beam on a tracking element of the holographic data storage disc; detecting a reflection of the tracking beam from the tracking element; and coordinating position of the data beam relative to the tracking beam. Embodiments compensate for the variation in vertical spacing of data and tracking beams due to the data beam being uncollimated at the objetive lens
Abstract:
Light extraction from wet-coated OLED devices may be improved by optimizing the charge injection or transport layers to direct more light into a supporting substrate, thus maximizing the final light extraction efficiency. Accordingly, in one aspect, the present invention relates to an optoelectronic device (20) that has at least one charge carrier injecting or transporting layer (3) that includes inorganic nanoparticles (11, 12) having a bimodal particle size distribution and dispersed in an organic matrix. In another aspect, the present invention relates to an optoelectronic device (10) that includes an electron transporting layer (6) comprising inorganic nanoparticles (11) dispersed in an organic matrix. In yet another aspect, the present invention relates to an optoelectronic device (30, 40) wherein the surface of the electron transporting layer (6) that is contiguous to the cathode is uneven (14). In yet another aspect, the present invention relates to an optoelectronic device comprising • a substrate; • an anode; • a cathode; • an electroluminescent layer; and • electron transporting layer comprising a fluoro compound of formula I (Ar 2 ) n -Ar 1 -(Ar 2 ) n I wherein Ar 1 is C 5-C 40 aryl, C 5 -C 40 substituted aryl, C 5 -C 40 heteroaryl, or C 5 -C 40 substituted heteroaryl; • Ar 2 is, independently at each occurrence, fluoro- or fluoroalkyl- substituted C 5-40 heteroaryl; and • n is 1, 2, or 3.
Abstract:
A molded article is formed by molding a holographic recording material into a shape that is determined by the function of an molded article and a volume hologram is formed in the molded article. Alternatively, only a portion of the molded article is formed from the holographic recording medium, or a molded article is formed by molding a thermoplastic into a shape that is determined by the function of the article, and then this article is then coated, for example by dip-coating, with a holographic recording medium, and a volume hologram is formed in the coating of the molded article. The hologram is one that displays an image that is directly interpretable by the human eye when properly interrogated to display an image
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for storing holographic data comprising providing an optically transparent substrate comprising a photochemically active dye; irradiating the optically transparent substrate with a holographic interference pattern, wherein the pattern has a first wavelength and an intensity both sufficient to convert, within a volume element of the substrate, at least some of the photochemically active dye into a photo-product, producing within the irradiated volume element concentration variations of the photo-product corresponding to the holographic interference pattern, thereby producing a first optically readable datum corresponding to the volume element; activating the optically transparent substrate to form an intramolecular hydrogen bond to a nitrone oxygen in residual photochemically active dye, to stabilize the optically readable datum.
Abstract:
A component comprising a stacked interleaved film structure that includes a plurality of layers inert to light. Alternating layers are either doped with a reverse saturable absorber (RSA) material or the RSA material is located between the adjacent inert layers. In some embodiments, the inert alternating layers have different refractive indices. A data storage device and methods of manufacture are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A device including a layer comprising a light emissive area and a light non-emissive area. A light-extracting feature is disposed over the light non-emissive area. The light-extracting features can include surface aberrations and reflective index matching elements. A method of forming the device is also provided.