Volumetric and page oriented optical storage systenwhave a great potential for high data density and high speed through page oriented data access [l]. However, in order to be practical, they have to maintain data integrity using error correction and modulation codes. The coding comes at a cost of spatial overhead of codeword size over the source data size, and processing time overhead for encod...

The low-pass nature of the optical systems (both coherent and incoherent) used for volume optical storage results in the presence of intersymbol interference (ISI) at the output of these systems. Since ISI can seriously degrade retrieved data fidelity, we consider the design of linear, minimum-mean-square-error equalizers for two-dimensional finite-contrast optical ISI channels. Signal models a...

—This paper demonstrates a model for Black Box CPU which is a part of Advanced Network Architecture (ANA) PC. The Black Box does not require any electronic or electrical devices; it uses optical devices for processing and storing of data. ANA is used for advanced networking operations. The Black Box is the part of the ANA PC, which serves as a generic CPU with fast processing and huge storage o...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been intensively studied over the past decade because they represent a new category of hybrid inorganic-organic materials with extensive surface areas, ultrahigh porosity, along with the extraordinary tailorability of structure, shape and dimensions. In this highlight, we summarize the current state of MOF research and report on structure-property relationsh...

Scientific community has well recognized that a Lorentzian medium exhibits anomalous dispersion behavior in its resonance absorption region. To satisfy the Krammers-Kronig relation, such an anomalous region has to be accompanied with significant loss, and thus, experimental observations of negative group velocity in this region generally require a gain-assisted approach. In this letter, we demo...

This paper develops a reduced complexity quasi-1D detector for optical storage devices and digital communication system. Superior performance of the proposed detector is evidenced by simulation results.