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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Persistent spectral hole-burning study on some organic and inorganic materials

Lingbing Chen, Youyuan Zhao, Li Jianzhao, Fuming Li

Published Aug 13, 1993• 0 citations
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Abstract

Persistent spectral hole burning (PSHB) was performed for several porphyrin molecules imbedded in polymer hosts and rare-earth ion Sm2+ doped in BaFCl0.5Br0.5 matrix. Power saturation and broadening effects for hole depth and width were observed. The dynamical process of hole formation was measured and explanation by population rate equations was given. Quantum efficiency of photochemical hole burning was investigated. For BaFCl0.5Br0.5:Sm2+ the capacity of data storage was estimated according to the result of multiple hole burning.

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10.1117/12.150653

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