High-speed optical recording with rare-earth-doped hole-burning materials

Ravinder Kachru; Xiao An Shen

doi:10.1117/12.230053

15 January 1996 High-speed optical recording with rare-earth-doped hole-burning materials

Ravinder Kachru, Xiao An Shen

Proceedings Volume 2604, High-Density Data Recording and Retrieval Technologies; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.230053
Event: Photonics East '95, 1995, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract

We are developing a high density, high speed optical memory, using rare-earth doped hole- burning materials. These materials are theoretically capable of achieving storage densities of 1000 Gigabits/cm³ at input/output (I/O) rates of several gigabits/sec. One remarkable attribute of this storage concept is that both the temporal and spatial information encoded on a laser beam can be stored. Because both the temporal and spatial information can be stored, digital data can be recorded serially as a data or packet stream as well as holographically using the page format. During the past year we have achieved a breakthrough in demonstrating random access holographic data storage at high frame rates. Five hundred holograms were stored and retrieved with very good fidelity at 30 Hz (video rate). Each holographic image with 512 multiplied by 488 pixels could be randomly accessed during the storage and retrieval process. This frame rate is the highest demonstrated frame rate for any optical technique. This breakthrough was achieved through the invention of a memory architecture that allows multiple holographic frames to be stored without any mechanical beam scanning. In this new architecture multiplexing of 500 holograms was achieved by stepping the laser frequency over a range covered by high speed acousto-optic modulators (AOM).

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Ravinder Kachru and Xiao An Shen "High-speed optical recording with rare-earth-doped hole-burning materials", Proc. SPIE 2604, High-Density Data Recording and Retrieval Technologies, (15 January 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.230053

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