Materials for Optical Data Storage

Photorefractive Materials for Optical Storage and Display

Real -time data storage and processing using optical techniques have been considered in recent years. Of particular interest are photosensitive electro-optic crystals which permit volume storage in the form of phase holograms, by means of a charge transfer process. A survey of the state of the art of such holographic memories is presented. The physical mechanism responsible for the formation of...

Optical data storage media

In this paper, we review many of the technical issues that must be addressed in developing high-quality optical disk recording media. The geometric design of tracking grooves and embossed data on the disk substrate must be optimized to the characteristics of the optical drive to support robust data seeking, track following, and data addressing. To ensure adequate recording performance and drive...

Optical data storage

The distribution of audio information in disk format—sound stored as modulations in a flat surface—has had a long and successful track record. At first, analog signals were imprinted on shellac and then later vinyl platters. But recently, sound has been almost exclusively distributed as and replayed from digitally encoded data, molded into the surface of compact polymer disks. This migration wa...

Prediction of Thermal Stability of Photochromic Materials Used for Optical Switching and Data Storage Applications

Certain organic compounds posess the ability to change color under the influence of light, called photochromism. This change is often due to ultrafast chemical transition from open to closed ring isomers (photocyclization). Information thechnology applications of these photochromics require the reverse transformation to be very slow in the dark. We have applied Density Functional Theory (DFT) m...

Optical Storage Phosphors and Materials for Ionizing Radiation