The document discusses holographic versatile disks (HVDs), an advanced optical disk format currently in development that can store over 1 terabyte of data with transfer rates of 1 gigabit per second. HVDs use holography to store data in three dimensions, allowing them to store significantly more data than formats like Blu-ray discs. The technology behind HVDs, including how data is written and read using laser beams and holograms, is explained. Potential applications and advantages of HVDs, such as high storage capacity and transfer speeds making them suitable for data backup, are also covered.
2. CONTENTS:
Introduction
Need of HVD
What is HVD?
Basics of holographic memory
Technology used in HVD
Structure of HVD?
Writing data
Reading data
Advantages, disadvantages and applications of
HVD
Facts
Future aspects
conclusion
3. INTRODUCTION
HVD is an advanced optical disk thats presently
in the development stage.
Storage capacity: 1 terabyte (Tb)
Data transfer rate: 1 gigabit per second
The technology permits over 1 kilobits of data to
be written and read in parallel with a single flash.
7. What is HVD?
Holographic versatile disk is a holographic storage
format that looks like a DVD but is capable of storing
far more data.
Prototype HVD devices have been created with a
capacity of 3.9TB and a transfer rate of 1GBPS.
1HVD=5,500 CDs=830 DVDs=160 Blu-ray discs.
Uses laser beams to store data in 3D.
8. Basics of holographic memory
Holography is a method of recording patterns of light to
produce a 3D object .
Recorded patterns of light is called a hologram.
Creation of a hologram begins with a focused beam of light,
a laser.
Laser splits up into two beams:
1. Reference beam
2. Information beam
When light encounters an image its composition changes.
9. When the information beam encounters an image, it
carries that image in its waveforms
When the two beams intersect, it creates a pattern of
light interference and that can be recorded on the
photosensitive polymer layer of the disk.
To retrieve the information stored in a hologram,
shine the reference beam onto the hologram. When it
reflects off the hologram, it holds the image pattern of
the stored image.
This reconstruction beam is then sent to a CMOS
sensor to recreate the original image.
10. Technology used in HVD
Collinear holography- the laser beams are collimated.
Blue-green laser reads the data encoded in the form of
laser interference.
Red laser serves the purpose of reference beam and to
read servo info.
A layer of dichroic mirrors, between the holographic
and servo data layer reflects the blue-green laser
beam, letting only the red laser to pass through it to
reach the servo information .
11. The concepts of collinear holographic memories
are:
To increase the recording capacity, thick volume-recording
media is used.
Optical disk is pre-formatted with addresses and
optical servo information.
The beam for the optical servo is utilized to
provide backward compatibility with d existing CDs
and DVDs.
13. Structure of HVD
The holographic versatile disk structure consists of the
following components:
Green writing/reading laser (532nm)
Red position/addressing laser (650nm)
Hologram (data)
Polycarbon layer
Photo polymeric layer (data-containing layer)
Distance layers
14. Dichroic layer (reflecting green light)
Aluminum reflective layer (reflecting
red light)
Transparent base
15. Writing Data
a simplified HVD system consists of the following main
components:
Blue or green laser (532nm wavelength)
Beam splitter/merger
Mirrors
Spatial light module (SLM)
CMOS sensor
Photopolymer recording medium
16. Information is encoded into binary and is stored in the
SLM.
These data are turned into ones and zeros represented as
opaque or translucent areas on a page.
When the information beam passes through the SLM,
portions of the light are blocked by the opaque areas of the
page, and portions pass through the translucent areas.
When the reference beam and the information beam rejoin
on the same axis, they create a pattern of light interference,
the holography data.
This interference pattern is stored in the photopolymer area
of the disc as a hologram.
18. Reading Data:
To read, we have to retrieve the light pattern stored in the
hologram
Laser is projected onto the hologram a light beam that is
identical to the reference beam.
The hologram diffracts this beam according to the specific
pattern of light interference is storing.
The resulting light recreates the image of the page that
established the light-interference pattern-reconstruction
beam.
19. The CMOS sensor then reproduces the page data.
The reconstruction beam-bounces back off the disc, it travels to the
CMOS sensor.
20. Advantages, Disadvantages And Applications
Advantages:
More storage capacity
Data transfer date is high
Disadvantages:
Initial price of the player and disk are high
Price and data storage not confirmed still in R & D
Applications:
Used for storing large amounts of data most likely for large
companies
Could be the most efficient way to back up information in the
near future.
21. Facts
The entire US library of congress can be stored on six
HVDs, assuming that every book has been scanned in
the text format. The library of congress is the largest
in the world and contains over 130 million items.
The pictures of every landmass of earth-like the one
shown in the Google earth can be stored on two
HVDs.
22. Future Aspects
Have tremendous implications in the commercial,
industrial and d-cinema realms.
Will find wide use for backing up and archiving the
media libraries, including the one at the Hollywood
studios.
23. Conclusion
The HDVs will soon replace DVDs and blu-ray
disks.
Currently supported by more than 170 of the
worlds leading consumer electronics, personal
computer, recording media, video game and music
company.
The format has also broad support from the major
movie studios as a successor to today's DVD and
blu-ray disk format.