A polymeric photorefractive composite was prepared from a mixture of carbazole-substituted polysiloxane as a photoconducting medium, 2,4,7-trinitro-9-fluorenone as a photosensitizer, and 2-{3-[(E)-2-(dibutylamino)-1-ethenyl]-5,5-dimethyl-2-cyclohexenyliden} malononitrile as an optically nonlinear chromophore. This polymeric composite, with a thickness of 100 m, exhibited a high diffraction efficiency of 92% at a low applied electric field of 30 V/m, which corresponded a refractive index modulation of 3 ϫ 10
Ϫ3. Applications of this polymeric composite to reversible holographic data storage and pattern recognition were demonstrated. The three-dimensional image was recorded on our photorefractive film at an applied field of 30 V/m, and subsequently, a high quality image was reconstructed in a real-time operation. Pattern recognition was successfully demonstrated based on a joint-transform optical correlation.
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