A new optical 3D data storage technology
Posted on 04/12/06 22:32 by geno 888                             
A new optical 3D data storage technology
Imagine taking the entire collection of historical documents at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and storing it on a single DVD.

The above is the start of a very interesting article published at TechNews about a new optical technology developed at University of Central Florida by Chemistry Professor Kevin D. Belfield and his team.

This new technology is named Two-Photon 3-D Optical Data Storage system. The process involves shooting two different wavelengths of light onto the recording surface. The use of two lasers creates a very specific image that is sharper than what current techniques can render. Depending on the color (wavelength) of the light, information is written onto a disk. The information is highly compacted, so the disk isn't much thicker. It's like a typical DVD.

According the article, this technique allows for storing on multiple layers with the capacity of at least 1,000 GB and high quality.

 

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By CDan, Monday 04 December 2006 23:54
CDanSounds like more expensive coasters. Wink
By IM4AQT, Tuesday 05 December 2006 02:39
You knew I had to be coming...... Superman's been using it for years.
By gogochar, Tuesday 05 December 2006 06:17
I wonder if one day the internet will be available on a disk while wirelessly being written to. Now that's science fictionl The internet would truly live up to its name.
By AlexSGV, Tuesday 05 December 2006 08:41
AlexSGVI thought that was the basis of holographic media such as the one by InPhase and Colossal Storage... meh
By Andrei, Tuesday 05 December 2006 08:58
AndreiI have already a deja-vue. Last year , two years before, Hack! even more than 3 years before there were braking news regarding a new revolution in optical media but after years passed I see no revolution in optical media maybe some in mechanical (hdd). So until I see in my superstore the 1 gig 5 bucks optical disk I remain skeptic
By Dennis_Olof, Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:10
This sound great, at least for the future and large companys and all data they have. Great for large backup storing lots of movies, archiving etc. Perhaps a media like this would give us the cinema of the future (Imax) on all movies. Wouldn't it be great if all movies where recorded in Imax. This would bring back the cinema and people would go there to watch movies Big Grin
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