Abstract
We describe two photochromic processes in organic thin films for high capacity optical storage in the blue and UV. In the first process, irradiation with polarized light causes a permanent realignment of molecules enabling polarization holography and in the second, neighboring molecules attached through a short peptide chain can be made to undergo cycloaddition. Both types of storage are stable environmentally.
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