Researchers Store Optical Data In Five Dimensions

Al writes "Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology in Victoria, Australia, have developed an optical material capable of storing information in five dimensions. Using three wavelengths and two polarizations of light, the Australian researchers were able to write six different patterns within the same area. The material is made up of layers of gold nanorods suspended in clear plastic that has been spun flat onto a glass substrate and multiple data patterns can be written and read within the same area in the material without interference. The team achieved a storage density of 1.1 terabytes per cubic centimeter by writing data to stacks of 10 nanorod layers."

Comments

And..

[MyLongNickName]

... if you add a sixth dimension (time), you can store a near-infinite amount of information!

Retrieval is a bitch though.

Re:And..

[fireman sam]

I use the MD5 compression algorithm to store my data. I still haven't found a good MD5 decompressor yet.

Storage in the Fifth Dimension...

[Chris Mattern]

...can it be the Age of Aquarius?

Ooohhh! Snap!!

[gizmo2199]

Yeah! take that Sony. They not only have blue ray, they have blue, yellow and green ray.

It's a color laser light-show smackdown!.

Boo-Yeah!!!

The hardest part

[idontgno]

is engineering a read/write head which is bent at 90 degrees to reality in two distinct and orthogonal directions.

The downside is that a head crash would threaten the integrity of the space-time continuum worse than a Large Hadron Collider mishap and two Star Trek: Voyager episodes all occurring at the same time.