HOLOGRAPHY DATA STORAGE

Submitted By:-
Mohit Jain
 HISTORY

 In late 1995 a joint university, industry and government

consortium initiated the Holographic Data Storage System
(HDSS) programs.
 High capacity and high-bandwidth spatial light modulator used for
data input.
 Optimized sensor arrays for data output.
 High-power red-light and semiconductor laser.
 Into the program's final year, consortium member - IBM Research
Division - believes that holograms could hold the key to high-capacity
data storage in the next millennium.
 INTRODUCTION
>>Devices that use light to store and read data has always become the
backbone of our data storage system for nearly two decades. Each time
you access towards the large repository of digital information.

>> All the way to the mammoth 320 GB hard disk drives available today, we
use also optical devices such as CDs ,DVDs and Blue-Ray Disk .

>> With the promise of tomorrow's operating systems and create new era of
storage via laser, the demands of being able to quickly store and retrieve
enormous quantities of data are ever increasing.
 DEFINITION
 >>Holographic memory is a technology that can store
information at high density inside crystals or
photopolymers.

 >>Conventional memories use only the surface to store the

data. But holographic data storage systems use the
volume to store data.
 BASIC PRINCIPLE OF HDSS
>>A hologram is a block or sheet of photosensitive material which records
the diffraction of two light sources.

>>To create a hologram, laser light is first split into two beams:
1.Source beam- Data signal
2.Reference beam- Carrier signal

>>And both intersect on hologram.

>> While reading data we hit Reference signal on exact angle which was
use during writing process.
BASIC COMPONENTS OF HDSS

>> BLUE-GREEN ARGON LASER

>>POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS
>>MIRRORS TO DIRECT THE LASER BEAMS
>>SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR (SLM)
>> LENSES TO FOCUS THE LASER BEAMS
>> PHOTO -POLYMER
>>CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD )
In a holographic memory device, a laser beam is split in two,
and the two resulting beams interact in a crystal medium to
store a holographic recreation of a page of data.
Implementation


 WORKING OF HDSS

 WRITING DATA ON RECORDING MEDIUM

>>Light from a single laser beam is split into two beams, the signal beam
(which carries the data) and the reference beam. The hologram is
formed where these two beams intersect in the recording medium. The
object beam, gets expanded so that it fully illuminates a spatial light
modulator (SLM)

>>The object beam finally interacts with the reference beam inside a
photosensitive crystal causing a holograph to be stored
Writing Data on HOLOGRAM
 READING DATA FROM
HOLOGRAM
>>When reading out the data, the reference beam has to hit the crystal at
the same angle that's used in recording the page. The stored
interference pattern diffracts the reference beam's light so that it
reconstructs the checkerboard image of the light or dark pixels.

>> The image is directed upon a charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor

array that reads the data in parallel, and it instantly captures the
entire digital page. The binary information can now be read from
this CCD and the originally stored data is retrieved.
Reading Data from HOLOGRAM

MULTIPLEXING
>>The method of storing multiple pages of data in the
hologram is called ‘Multiplexing’.

 WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING
 ANGULAR MULTIPLEXING

SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING
> PERISTROPHIC MULTIPLEXING
> SHIFT MULTIPLEXING
 PHASE ENCODED MULTIPLEXING
MULTIPLEXING COMBINATIONS
 ADVANTAGES OF HDDS
>> With three-dimensional recording and parallel data
readout, holographic memories can outperform
existing optical storage techniques. In contrast to the
currently available storage strategies.

>>holographic mass memory simultaneously offers high

data capacity and short data access time (Storage
capacity of about 1TB/cc and data transfer rate of 1
billion bits/second).

>> While a defect in the medium for disk or tape storage

might garble critical data, a defect in a holographic
medium doesn't wipe out information

DISADVANTAGES OF HDDS
>> Manufacturing cost HDSS is very high and there is a lack of
availability of resources which are needed to produce HDSS.

>> A difficulty with the HDSS technology had been the destructive
readout. The re-illuminated reference beam used to retrieve the
recorded information, also excites the donor electrons and
disturbs the equilibrium of the space charge field in a manner that
produces a gradual erasure of the recording.

>> You would be unable to locate the data if there’s an error of even a
thousandth of an inch.
 POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS
>> Holographic memory systems can potentially provide the
high speed transfers and large volumes of future computer
system.

>>One possible application is DATA MINING. Data mining is the

processes of finding patterns in large amounts of data. Data
mining is used greatly in large databases which hold possible
patterns which can’t be distinguished by human eyes due to
the vast amount of data.

>> The many advances in access times and data storage

capacity that holographic memory provides could exceed
conventional storage and speedup data mining considerably.

>> Another possible application of holographic memory is in pet

flop computing and most common application is
HOLOGRAPHIC VERSATILE DISK (HVD).The future of digital
data storage technology.
Holographic Versatile Disc structure
1. Green writing/reading laser (532 nm)
2. Red positioning/addressing laser (650 nm)
3. Hologram (data)
4. Polycarbonate layer
5. Photo polymeric layer (data-containing layer)
6. Distance layers
7. Dichotic layer (reflecting green light)
8. Aluminum reflective layer (reflecting red light)
9. Transparent base
HVD
 Comparison of data storage devices

Recordable
Writing/ Discs
Player
    Capacity Reading Approx.
Approx.
Speed Cost
Cost
Holographic
Versatile 300 GB–
HVD 1 GB/s $120 $3000
Discs 1.6 TB
(HDSS)

Blu-ray 25 GB– 36.5

BD $18 $2000
Discs 50 GB Mb/s
Digital
DVD– 5 GB– 36.5
Versatile $10 $2000
HD-DVD 30 GB Mb/s
Discs
Compact 783 MB– 27.5
CD $4 $200
Discs 1.3 GB Mb/s
 CONCLUSION
>> The future of HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE
SYSYEM is very promising. The page access of data
that HDSS creates will provide a window into next
generation computing by adding another dimension to
stored data

>> It will most likely be used in next generation

supercomputers where cost is not as much of an issue.

>> However, many advances in optical technology and

photosensitive materials need to be made before we
find holograms in our computer systems. Thus we can
say that it is new ERA of digital data storage from
LASER.
THANK YOU…