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Future Optical Computer Storage-Holographic Memory

 

Here, it meets the reference beam, which travels directly from the laser. The two beams interfere and a dark and light pattern is produced on the photographic film. Hence, a hologram is created. .
             To display the hologram image, the reference beam is made to illuminate the photographic film and this causes the signal beam to be re-created. This reconstructed beam is a three dimensional image of the object.
             Section 3.1 - How is binary computer data stored/read in this form?.
             Holographic computer storage works on a similar principle to the way a hologram is created. The two beams of light are made using a blue-green argon laser. The storage medium in this case is a photorefractive crystal, typically made from lithium-niobate. Just as before, the reference beam travels straight to the storage medium. The signal beam passes straight through a Spatial-Light Modulator (SLM). .
             The SLM is a liquid crystal display that stores pages of binary data as light and dark pixels. The pages of binary data are simply created from the binary code of the information that is to be stored. .
             The signal beam then carries this data to the light sensitive crystal. Here, it is focused at a point where it interacts with the reference beam, and an interference pattern is formed. This pattern very slightly changes the molecular structure of the crystal, and the information is stored as a hologram.
             To read this information, the reference beam is focused on to the crystal at the exact position where the hologram is stored. The crystal then diffracts the beam and the original stored information is recreated. The information is then focused onto a Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) camera. .
             The CCD camera interprets and sends the digital information to where it is needed, i.e. the computer.
             Section 3.2 - How is more information stored?.
             The amount of information that can be stored on a one centimeter sized crystal cube is potentially huge. This is because, when storing data, a slight change (about a thousandth of a degree) in the angle of the signal beam causes the information to be stored in a different location.


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