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Pioneer Ultraviolet Laser Promises 500GB Discs

Posted by samzenpus on from the i-love-lasers dept.

No Fortune writes "Here's an article indicating that Pioneer is developing an ultraviolet laser for data storage. Since the wavelength of ultraviolet lasers is shorter than the wavelength of blue lasers, the beams are finer and they can pack more data into per square inch. This gives a data rate 20 times more than the blue laser Blue-ray disk."

3 of 298 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Octarine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or octaroon, which is 1/8th black.

  2. Tattoo? by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about temporary tattoos via a UV laser attached to a tattoo gun?

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  3. Re:Your sig by rco3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    [blushes] Thanks.

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