The optical properties and potential applications of four kinds of fulgide and fulgimide were studied. A parallel optical storage apparatus was set up, which could reach the area density of 4.8 x 10(7) bits/cm(2) on the fulgide/PMMA film. Fourier transform orthogonal circular polarization holographic data storage was performed with high signal-to-noise-ratio reconstruction image, which obtained the storage density of 2 X 10(8) bits/cm(2) for single hologram. Two-photon induced micro-patterns were recorded on the fulgimide/PMMA film with 800 nm, 100 fs, 1 KHz, 50 mW femtosecond laser. Dual-wavelength (650 nm and 488 nm) optical images storage were tested on a two-color mixing fulgides/PMMA film.