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Posted by Smarty on 07/26/07 14:14
Hi Jan,
The technology is certainly immature, but the developer and his staff are
extremely impressive, with the key lead person being the former head of Bell
Labs with 85 optical patents and 450 published articles. I would imagine
that this San Diego company has a lot of future potential. The U of
California Irvine E.E. faculty he is on is also top rate.
Holographic recording is not an altogether new method, and has been around a
long time. Seeing how they apparently use very low energy to flip the
optical "bits" is a new twist on this old theme.
I published this link mostly because it reveals some of the longer-term
activity and thinking which will inevitably impact those of us who need gobs
of storage and are frustrated with present-day methods. It is a bit of a
pipe-dream / fantasy at this stage for sure, and not time yet to ditch the
present media, but it's fun to have something to watch and look forward
to.....
Smarty
"Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f8a6qv$31g$1@aioe.org...
> On a sunny day (Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:00:11 -0400) it happened "Smarty"
> <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in
> <fNydnfW5mIBGBzXbnZ2dnUVZ_q6hnZ2d@adelphia.com>:
>
>>It is indeed "vaporware" but a very promising approach which really takes
>>optical storage density up by a huge leap. Only time will tell if it is a
>>real product and has longevity for data storage, a problem for sure with
>>most dye-based optical media.
>>
>>Smarty
>
> Yes, perhaps, 'perhaps' because I went to that site and the pictures of
> how it
> works are blurry gifs -I even downloaded one, and enlarged it, and still
> could
> make out only part of the text- so I do not understand the mechanism.
> At one point they talk about 10cm disks (like a CD) but then show a much
> smaller
> blue things...
> They also admit the Inphase holographic system will be 1TB before they get
> to it I
> think.
> If indeed they can record 'inside' a piece of plastic or whatever then a
> lot of dust
> and scratch problems would not exists, that would be nice.
> Anyways I appreciate the link, worth to keep an eye on it.
>
>
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