EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A 2-PHOTON MEMORY

We demonstrate the recording of 100 planes of digital images in a page -oriented two-photon memory and characterize the images in terms of si gnal-to-noise ratio and bit error rate. Possible error sources in the recording are discussed, and methods for compensating for some of thes e effects are presented. Looking at the distributions of the normalize d bit intensities, we are able to estimate the minimum achievable hit error rate for this system. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America.