Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1497513 Optical Materials 2006 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

Photoinduced dichroism measurements have been performed in hybrid silica-based sol–gel films containing Carbazole units, 2,4,7-trinitro-9-fluorenone (TNF) and Disperse Red 1 (DR1) at different concentrations. The dynamics of the parallel and perpendicular absorbances gives information on the azo-dye orientation under illumination and suggests that the dominant mechanism for the photoinduced anisotropy is the angular redistribution of the DR1 trans-molecules. Recording, storage and erasure, have been demonstrated for writing and reading light at 488 nm.

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