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Virtually all volume holographic recording materials require a fixing process to reduce or eliminate their sensitivity to light of the recording wavelength as they are being read out. This is true because illuminating the medium with light of the readout wavelength will ultimately either erase the recorded information, as in the case of photorefractive crystals, or deplete the dynamic range and cause spurious “noise gratings” that reduce the SNR to unacceptable levels, as in the case of photopolymers. This problem appears to be intrinsic to holographic media because the materials have to have a linear response in order to record superimposed (multiplexed) volume holograms with a minimum of scatter. Fixing is not an issue in established two-dimensional optical data storage materials (e. g. magneto-optic, phase change) because they use highly nonlinear thermal recording mechanisms, so that the information can be read nondestructively at lower powers.
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Orlov, S.S., Phillips, W. (2000). Hologram Fixing and Nonvolatile Storage in Photorefractive Materials. In: Coufal, H.J., Psaltis, D., Sincerbox, G.T. (eds) Holographic Data Storage. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47864-5_7
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