WELCOME

3D OPTICAL DATA
STORAGE

Introduction
Introduction
Popularity and rate of adoption of optical disc has been
unparalleled in the history of consumer electronics.
volumetric nature of data structure.
Distance between layers may be 5 to 100 micrometers.
Greater than 100 layers of information can be stored on a
single disc.

HISTORY

Yehuda Hirshberg developed the photochromic

spyropyrans.
Valeri Barachevskii demonstrated photochromism
could be prodused by two photon excitation.
Peter.T.Rentzepis showed that this could lead to
three dimensional data storage.

RECORDING
DATA

reference beams.
Data arranged as data
pages.
0s and 1s of data
pages are translated
into pixels of the spatial
light modulator.
signal beam encoded
with the data page
pattern.
Encoded beam
interferes with the
reference beam through
the recording medium.
photochemical
changes takes place in

READING
DATA

modulations in the
refractive index of
the recording
material yielding
diffractive volume
gratings
Reference beam is
used during readout
of the recorded
gratings,
reconstructing the
stored array of bits
Reconstructed
array is projected on

CROSS SECTION OF A 3-D DISC

MEDIA DESIGN
Active part of media is usually an organic
polymer doped with photo chemically active
species.
Media have been suggested in several formsdisc, card, crystal, cube or sphere.
Media to be constructed layer by layer.
It is analogous to a roll of adhesive tape.

DRIVE DESIGN
Drive designed to this storage media has a lot in common with CD/DVD
drives if both have similar form factor.
Care must be taken for the followings during design
Laser
Variable spherical aberration correction
Detection

DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

Development of
commercial products has
taken a significant length
of time due to limited
financial backing in the
field, as well as technical
issues, including:
Destructive reading
Thermodynamic stability
Media sensitivity

COMMERCIAL
Figure
shows
DEVELOPMENT

examples of 3D
optical data
storage media
Top rawCall/Recall media
and Mempile
media
Middle raw- FMD
and Drive
Bottom rawLandour media

ADVANTAGES
Terabyte
Terabyte data
data storage
storage in
in an
an ordinary
ordinary disc
disc
1
1 diameter
diameter 50GB
50GB disc
disc for
for data
data storage
storage for
for
mobiles
mobiles
More than 100 layer of information in a single
More than 100 layer of information in a single
disc
disc
More data storage in less space
More data storage in less space
We can store 100s of movies in a single disc
We can store 100s of movies in a single disc

DISADVANTAGES

High cost

Not

easy to design as
compared with other
optical discs

APPLICATIONS

Consumer entertainment
applications
Personal computing
Application software
distribution
Data storage and
transport medium world
wide

CONCLUSION


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