Prvo snemanje filma na holografskem disku kapacitete 1 Terabajt

Optware Corp., the developer of Collinear Holographic* Data Storage System, announced today that it had achieved successfully world's first recording and play back of digital movies on a holographic recording disc with a reflective layer using Optware's revolutionary Collinear Holography. This is a major milestone for commercializing holographic data storage system.
The recorded movies were played back in a series of meetings from July eight through 12 with Optware's six existing investors as well as eight enterprises both
domestic and overseas including leading manufacturers of electronic and electric products for consumer, business and industrial use. Company names are not disclosed.


Recording holographic page data** on a rotating transparent disc has been reported before. Such discs, however, are foreign to the conventional optical discs. Lacking the servo information, they do not seem to have a commercial viability.
On the contrary Optware has proposed Collinear Holographic recording on a hologram disc the structure of which follows conventional optical disc, i.e. preformatted disc with a reflective layer (disc with servo information).
This type of disc has been said to be inadequate because preformatted address pits generate diffusion noise during read / write, thus deteriorate the signal quality.
Optware has overcome this problem by applying a dichroic mirror layer between the recording and reflective layers. This dichroic mirror layer blocks the diffusion by the address pits, allowing ideal collinear holographic recording.

Optware's demonstration is an epoch-making event in a sense that it proved the successful integration of optical disc technology and holographic recording technology.

Fig.1 Optware's Holographic Versatile Disc™ (HVD™) disc structure.
Fig.2 Read / Write system
Fig.3 Holographic Versatile Disc™ (HVD™) on which digital movies were recorded (left). The disc diameter of 12 centimeters is equivalent to those of CD and DVD.
Fig.4 The surface of the Holographic Versatile Disc™ (HVD™). Multiplexed holographic data patterns are seen along the tracks.


Holographic recording technology records data on discs in the form of laser interference fringes, enabling existing discs the same size as today's DVDs to store as much as one terabyte of data (200 times the capacity of a single layer DVD), with a transfer speed of one gigabyte per second (40 times the speed of DVD). This approach is rapidly gaining attention as a high-capacity, high-speed data storage technology for the age of broadband.

* The collinear holography technique
Optware's exclusive development of the collinear holography technique is part of its effort to make holographic recording technology practical. A patented technology originally proposed by Optware founder and chief evangelist Hideyoshi Horimai, collinear holography combines a reference laser and signal laser on a single beam, creating a three-dimensional hologram composed of data fringes. This image is illuminated on the medium using a single objective. Using this breakthrough mechanism, Optware dramatically simplified and downsized the previously bulky and complicated systems required to generate holograms. Further enhancements were achieved with Optware's exclusive servo system. The introduction of this mechanism enabled reduced pickup size, elimination of vibration isolators, high-level compatibility with DVD and CD discs and low-cost operation, effectively obliterating the remaining obstacles to full commercialization.

** Page data
Two dimensional bit map image to be recorded and played back by hologram. Data to be written is first encoded to a series of page data, then recoded holographically.

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Izgleda, da se nam obeta revolucija na področju shranjevanja podatkov na prenosne medije.

OMFG, 1TB, PA TO JE OGROMNO.Upam, da bodo to hitro uvedli in, da ne bo ostalo samo pri prototipu.

Zelo zanimivo.

"Lacking the servo information, they do not seem to have a commercial viability." - mi lahko kdo pove bolj po domače za kaj se gre tukaj?

@Highlag , @Jux novico sem jaz mislil spisat oziroma opozorit pisune vendar sem enkrat nekaj narobe naredil in več nimam dostopa do pošlji novico.

Samo jaz se sprašujem če je res prihodnost v takem(CD) mediju, ki je precej dovzeten za poškodbe. Se ti malo opraska in adijo 1TB podatkov...

Pa še malo neroden je za vstavljanje, usb (mini) diski so dosti hitrejši in enostavnejši, npr.

Edino kompatibilnost s CDji in DVDji ga tukaj rešuje.

Sicer pa proizvajalce teh medijev najbrž ne moti, da bodo morali prodajati dodatne enote.