Nondestructive readout and transient erasure of photon-gated hole-burning holograms

Summary form only given. We present results on organic hole-burning material that we apply for recording of image holograms with picosecond pulses. We show that such holographic images can be read out repeatedly and with high doses of illumination. Furthermore, it is possible to use an intense readout laser beam to saturate the absorption of the material at the resonance frequency where the hologram is recorded, without actually destroying the stored information.