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Holographic Storage For The Masses
jmoo writes: "Ars Technica has an article on startup company looking to produce holographic storage for commercial sale. The company, InPhase, supposedly is backed by Lucent and is predicting storage densities of 300 gigabits per square inch." "Backed by Lucent" certainly sounds a lot less sketchy than the repeated but never confirmed claims of extremely dense storage using multi-layer CD-ROMs.
Great, now when I find myself searchig for more spaces for my mp3/pron collection, I can just cook up a batch of jello. I can probably get a greater bit density by using different colors from the different flavors.
Would I be able to store more info in blue-rasberry as opposed to cherry due to the wavelength difference?
I guess this brings a new meaning to home-brewed system.
Yep, I never spell check.
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Another product for the "I'll care about it when I can input my credit card and order it" file.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
storage does not merely mean layered storage, as in the scotch tape and multi layer DVD examples.
In holographic storage a photosensitive medium is exposed to the interference pattern that is generated when an object laser beam, with the data encoded in it, is intersected by a second, coherent laser beam. The photosensitive medium will then replicate these interference fringes as a change in optical absorption. Data is retrieved from the medium by exposing it to light from one laser beam.
In the scotch tape laser burning and multi layer DVD examples, the laser merely burns holes on a 2D surface in many stacked surfaces. To read back you just focus the diode lasers' objective lens on whichever surface you want to read. This is considered inferior to the data densities possible with holography.
For a better explanation of how it works go here.
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