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… layers to be stored in the volume of the disk by utilizing two-photon absorption (2PA) as …
volume of the disk and improved spatial confinement can be achieved. 2PA is a nonlinear optical …

… optical disks, two-photon 3dimensional bit optical storage, near field optical storage, spectral
hole burning technology, five-… multilayer optical disk, etc., will provide competitive optical …

This entry follows the development of optical design and fabrication in a historical, chronological
line. Instead of immediately analyzing the complicated present-day knowledge and …

Conventional optical system design employs spherical and aspherical lenses, prisms,
mirrors, apertures, etc. as optical elements in order to achieve the desired functionality of the …

… modeling building blocks for the design and analysis of diffractive optical elements (DOEs). …
We note the +1/2 increment in the i subscript of the x-coordinate as a finite-difference over +1/…

… modulations of an optical surface. It is therefore customary to refer to one-dimensional (1-D), …
grating, a crossed diffraction grating and a “photonic crystal,” respectively. In the limit where …

This entry discusses the physical origin of holographic data storage, the components, and
the engineering required to realize them. The strengths and weaknesses of available write-…