Why, with a 1TB storage capacity o­n a 12cm disc, that's about 11 gigabytes per square centimeter. Good.

Optware Corporation has announced that they have begun accepting orders through Sony for a colinear holographic system experimental unit developed by the same company. It contains a laser light source developed by Sony. Delivery is scheduled for the middle of August.

Holographic media uses "data stripes" that interrupt the flow of laser light through a media, allowing for a 1TB capacity o­n a 12cm disc. The colinear holographic system developed by Optware puts two lasers, a recording reference laser and signal laser, o­n the same axis - both of the lenses pick up a signal from the media. The optical system is said to be "shrinkable" as well.

This experimental unit contains a blue semiconductor laser developed by Sony. They have said that the use of the blue laser "allows for people of the future to obtain low cost equipment to spur development."

The experimental can read and write using the colinear system, and it can do things such as recording sensitivity characteristic measurement, playback page data analysis, SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) analysis, error rate analysis, multiple record characterisitc management, and shift selectivity measurement.

Optware's CEO, Masao Aoki, commented by saying that "because of the use of Sony, always o­n top of ultra-fine optical technology, to accept orders, and the ability to use their blue semiconductor laser, commercialization will be that much faster."


Inspired by:
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20040727/optware.htm

Optware Homepage:
http://www.optware.co.jp/