SEMINAR

ON
HOLOGRAPHY MEMORY
BY –SAGAR MOHANTY
0701209226
BRANCH-IT
SILICON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Capacity:700 mb Capacity: 30-50Gb
Capacity:4.7Gb Capacity:1-4TB
 INTRODUCTION
 Holography memory is an advanced optical storage
device that can store information in the form of
holographic image.
 It can store upto 1 TB
of information in a sugar
cube sized crystal.

 Holography data storage is a volumetric approach of

storing data(use the volume of recording medium).
 WHY WE NEED THIS //////??
“For Internet applications alone, industry estimates are
that storage needs are doubling every 100 days”.

By the year 2010, a storage system serving an average

LAN will need … 100 TB and a WAN server will require
10TB to 1 petabyte …of storage.
 CONCEPT

In Holography the wave field of light(i.e the object and

reference wave) scattered by an object is recorded on a
place (i.e holographic material) as an interference
pattern.
COMPONENTS
Most holographic storage systems contain some
components basic to the setup.
These are :-
a) Laser Beam
b) Beam Splitters to split the Laser Beam
c) Mirrors to direct the Laser Beam
d) A liquid crystal Display panel(SLM)
e) Lenses to focus the Laser Beam
f) Recording Material
g) CCD cameras
Basic Components
spatial light modulator

LCD panel

To direct the photopolymer

laser beams Mirrors Lithium-
niobate
crystal

Beam
splitters CCD
To spilt the camera
laser beam Interprets
the digital
Blue-green information
argon laser
METHOD OF STORING DATA
When the blue-argon laser is focused ,a beam splitter splits it
into two beams a reference beam and a signal beam .

The signal beam will go straight bounces off one mirror &
travel through a SLM.

The signal beam passes through a SLM where digital

information, organized in a page like format of ones and
zeroes, is modulated onto the signal beam as a two
dimensional pattern of brightness and darkness .

The information from the page of binary code is carried by

the signal beam around to the light sesitive Lithium Niobate
crystal.
CONTINUE…
A second beam called reference beam shoots out the side of
the beam splitter and takes a separate path to the crystal.

When the two beams meet, the interference pattern that is

created stores the data that is carried by the signal beam on
to the surface of the holographic material as a hologram.
(Data is stored as a hologram)

Different data pages are recorded over the surface

depending on the angle at which the reference beam meets
the signal beam
METHOD OF RETRIVING DATA
To retrieve data, the reference beam is focused on the
hologram at a particular angle ; this will retrieve the
modulated data stored at the same angle of
interference .

To read the page ,one need to pass it through detector

and then through CCD camera, which will project the
data on to the display panel.
 ADVANTAGES
Large Data Density.

Better Reliability.

Large Capacity.

High Data Transfer Rate.

Fault and Damage Tolerance.

LIMITATIONS AND CHALLENGES
It is very difficult to arrange all of those
components like CCD camera , SLM arrays
and beam steering devices.
 Needs good recordings sensitive material to
allow high data transfer rate.
If too many pages are stored in one crystal,
the strength of each hologram gets
diminished.
 APPLICATIONS
A) Petaflop Computing

B) Data Mining

C) Future Computing System

 CONCLUSION
 


The future of holographic memory is very promising. The
holographic storage provide high data density. It can easily store
1000GB of data in a small cubic centimeter crystal reducing the cost
on the other hand. It may offer high
 data transfer rate.


 But even then the holographic way of storing data is still at the
toddler stage and it may take another couple of years for this
technique to hit desktop with a real life data storage solution.


 However this technology itself is dazzling and aims to light up the
desktop Experienences.
THANK YOU
ANY QUESTIONS?