Volume Holographic Data Storage

With Doped High Quality Optical

Glass
Need For It:
 This system can store up to 1 terabyte of
data in 1 cubic centimeter of recording
medium.

The retrieval of data is faster since the laser

beams have no inertia .

The characteristics of the ideal optical

storage medium include high optical quality
and low scatter, a large refractive index
modulation, high sensitivity, long shelf life and
low material costs.
 To obtain a method of data storage where the wavelength of
the light beam used to read the hologram is not restricted to
the particular wavelength used to record the hologram.

 To provide a method that allows a plurality of volume

holograms to be recorded in a thick storage medium.

 To provide a method for creating a volume hologram that can

be read many times without erasing.

 To provide a method for creating a volume hologram wherein

the wavelength of the light beam used to read the hologram is
not restricted to the particular wavelength used to record the
hologram.
 INTRODUCTION:

 Volume holographic optical storage medium comprises a

doped optically transparent glass matrix having a
scattering coefficient of less than 10 -5 cm -1 and exposing
the medium to an interference pattern created by
intersecting a spatially modulated object beam with a
reference beam.
Preparation Of Glass Matrix:

 The glass matrix may be doped with any of the following embodiments : (1) nanocrystalline semiconductor particles (2) an alkaline earth sulfide (3) ZnS and (4) Cu or Ce ions.

 The dopants used are sufficiently sensitive to UV radiation so that only a low concentration of the dopant is necessary to adequately record data.

 Moreover, the dopants are either in nanocrystalline form, or else are small molecules or ions. Thus, light scattering is minimized in the recording and reading of stored data.

Erbium Doped
Glass Fiber
 Reading And Writing Using Glass Matrix:

 The doped glass has the property that when it is irradiated

with light having a wavelength of less than about 300 nm,
the excitation energy is stored as trapped charges in the
glass.

 The trapped charges modify the complex index of

refraction of the glass. This property allows the doped glass
to be used in storing volume holograms
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
 A more complete appreciation of the invention will be readily obtained
by reference to the graph of measured diffraction efficiency vs.
exposure time for a 2 mm thick sample of europium-doped glass
exposed to a single mode KrF excimer laser operating at 248 nm at a
repetition rate of 2 Hz.
 EMBODIMENTS
FIRST:
 The volume holographic
storage medium is a glass
matrix doped with
nanocrystalline
semiconductor particles and
an activator.
Activators can be :
1.Transition metals
2.Lanthanides
SECOND:
 Here the optically
stimulable glasses are
typically prepared by
diffusing the dopants into
the glass matrix. Due to
this, the glass matrix may
be either porous or
fused.
Here any alkaline earth
sulfide may be used as
the dopant.
THIRD: FOURTH:

 In this stage a  In this fourth and

glass matrix final embodiment,
includes metal the glass matrix
sulphide and an includes Cu or Ce
activator.The dopants in the
activator is absence of a metal
employed over the sulfide component,
sulphide so as to or even in the
get the diffusion absence of any
done. sulfide component.
 DOPING
These steps show how to dope a glass matrix:

Diffusion of
Getting metal dopants by
Contact with salt Drying sulphide dipping in org
solution of dopant by adding sulphur /inorg
sol-gels

The material of Glass tube

used to Dried and
the four The optical stimulable
hold the activated at
embodiments may luminescence (OSL)
glass samples high
be shaped activity of fused
during activation temperatures
after the doping glasses may be
is a source using glass
Process so enhanced by
of dopants. tubes in furnaces
that it is repeated heating
suitable as a
volume hologram
LIMITATIONS:

To cater the present day needs, additional requirements

are that:

 The glass starting material be limited to fused quartz

and fused silica.

 The concentration of dopant be kept low so that the

dopant does not significantly reduce the transparency of
the glass.
CONCLUSION:

 A plurality of volume holograms may be recorded and

read within the volume holographic optical storage
medium by techniques of angular and wavelength
multiplexing known in the art.

 The enabling technologies for creating and reading

volume holograms and for storing and retrieving volume
holographic high density data are well developed.
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