Holographic Data Storage

Demetri Psaltis is a Professor of Optics, Dean of engineering at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America and the Society for Photo-optical Systems Engineering (SPIE).

I Introduction.- History and Physical Principles.- Volume Holographic Multiplexing Methods.- Fundamental Noise Sources in Volume Holographic Storage.- II Recording Media.- Bit Error Rate for Holographic Data Storage.- Media Requirements for Digital Holographic Data Storage.- Inorganic Photorefractive Materials.- Hologram Fixing and Nonvolatile Storage in Photorefractive Materials.- Two-Color Holography in Lithium Niobate.- Overview of Photorefractive Polymers for Holographic Data Storage.- Photopolymer Systems.- Photopolymers for Digital Holographic Data Storage.- Photoaddressable Polymers.- III Components.- Laser Sources.- Beam Deflectors and Spatial Light Modulators for Holographic Storage Application.- Beam Conditioning Techniques for Holographic Recording Systems.- Detector Arrays for Digital Holographic Storage Applications.- IV Channels.- Modulation Codes for Holographic Recording.- Interleaving and Error Correction for Holographic Storage.- Equalization for Volume Holographic Data Storage Systems.- Gray-Scale Data Pages for Digital Holographic Data Storage.- V Demonstration Platforms.- System Optimization for Holographic Data Storage Systems.- Tamarack Optical Head Holographic Storage.- High-Density, High-Performance Data Storage via Volume Holography: The Lucent Technologies Hardware Platform.- IBM Holographic Digital Data Storage Test Platforms.- Digital Holographic Demonstration Systems by Stanford University and Siros Technologies.- Holographic Read-Only Memory.- Digital Holographic Data Storage with Fast Access.- A Demonstration Platform for Phase-Coded Multiplexing.- Volume Holographic Optical Correlators.- VI Competing Technologies.- The Continuing Evolution of Magnetic Hard Disk Drives.- Optical Disk Storage Roadmap.- Alternative Storage Techniques.