Wideband Optical Storage

H. G. Heard

doi:10.1117/12.957252

10 July 1979 Wideband Optical Storage

H. G. Heard

Proceedings Volume 0177, Optical Information Storage; (1979) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957252
Event: Technical Symposium East, 1979, Washington, D.C., United States

Abstract

This paper has five purposes. First, to focus upon the key relationships that bound the technology choices for large, archival, digital storage devices; second, to identify the motivations for selecting the optical technology for a petabit-exabit level storage system (1015-1018 bits); third, to present a generic example and a specific implementation of a terabit-level optical storage device; fourth, to characterize the global design space constraints that will allow one to build a tecnology-limited optical store; and fifth, to sketch the outline of the BYTERON concept, a wideband 1016-1017 bit optical store and contrast its performance to that of a current optical store.

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H. G. Heard "Wideband Optical Storage", Proc. SPIE 0177, Optical Information Storage, (10 July 1979); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957252

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