Micro-holograms recorded in a new thermoplastic medium for holographic data storage

This paper updates the recent progress in the micro-holographic format data recorded in our secondgeneration dye-doped thermoplastic medium. This new medium is about 400 times more sensitive than our first generation material, while our single-bit system needs less than 2.3 milliseconds to write a microhologram. The characteristics of micro-holograms recorded in the high sensitivity material are presented and compared to earlier results from the first-generation low-sensitivity material.