A

Presentation
On
Holographic Versatile Disc(HVD)

Guided By: Presented By:

Ms.Deepti mittal Prateek Jain
I.T.(IV year)
Need Of HVD
• Multimedia - a single minute of compressed
video takes up to 12 Mbytes

• Data Warehouses - large corporations’

warehouses now taking more than 2 Tbytes

• World Wide Web - one vendor’s high-end

Web server packs 128 Gbytes of disk

• In Hospitals Multi slice CAT scan: 500MB

Cardiac video: 3GB
Optical Disc Technology
0.7 GB 9 GB 30~50 GB

What is next ?
Holographic Versatile disc
 What is HVD ?
Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) is an optical disc technology which would
hold up to 3.9 terabytes (TB) of information .

An HVD is an advanced optical disk that’s presently in the development

stage. Polaroid scientist J van Heerden was the first to come up with the
idea for holographic three-dimensional storage in 1960.

Holographic memory systems have been around for decades. They offer far
more storage capacity than CDs and DVDs -- even "next-generation" DVDs
like Blu-ray -- and their transfer rates are far very less.
 Basics of Holographic Disk
• The first step in understanding holographic disk
is to understand what "holographic" means.
Holography is a method of recording patterns of
light to produce a three-dimensional object.

• The recorded patterns of light are called a

hologram.
 A Holographic Disk can:
• Store information throughout the whole volume of the
medium instead of just the surface as with other storage
technologies.
• Uses fewer or no moving parts at all, thus allowing greater
data processing speeds.

• Hold more information than 100 compact disks of the

same diameter

• Can read 64,000 bits at one time, compared to just one or

two bits with magnetic storage.

• Provides unique robustness and error insensitivity

 Advantages
1) Large Data Density/ Capacity
Uses optics instead of read-write heads, and uses whole
volume of medium instead of just surface as with
conventional devices.
2) Better Reliability
Uses less moving parts (or no moving parts)
3) High Transfer Rates & Short Access Times
Parallel access instead of bit-by-bit access

4) Fault And Damage Tolerance

Which Are Not Available Simultaneously With Any Other

Storage Technology.
Applications

Video-On- Portable
Demand Computing

Multimedia Consumer
Audio/Video
Dimension of HVD
 HVD Structure
• Green writing/reading laser (532 nm)
• Red positioning/addressing laser (650 nm)
• Hologram (data)
• Polycarbon layer
• Photopolymeric layer (data-containing layer)
• Distance layers
• Dichotic layer (reflecting green light)
• Aluminium reflective layer (reflecting red light)
Layer Structure of HVD
 Working Principle
• HVD uses a technology called 'collinear holography,' in
which two laser rays, one is blue-green and another is red,
are collimated into a single beam..

• The blue-green laser reads data encoded as laser

interference fringes from a holographic layer near the top
of the disc while the red laser is used as the reference
beam and to read servo information from a regular CD-
style aluminium layer near the bottom.

• Servo information is used to monitor the position of the

read head over the disc, similar to the head, track, and
sector information on a conventional hard disk drive.
 HVD Write System
• A simplified HVD system consists of the
following main components:

• Blue or green laser (532-nm wavelength in

the test system)
• Beam splitter/merger
• Mirrors
• Spatial light modulator (SLM)
• CMOS sensor
• Polymer recording medium
When the blue-green argon laser is fired, a beam splitter
creates two beams. One beam, called the object or signal
beam, will go straight, bounce off one mirror and travel
through a spatial-light modulator (SLM). An SLM is a liquid
crystal display (LCD) that shows pages of raw binary data
as clear and dark boxes.
The information from the page of binary code is carried by
the signal beam around to the light-sensitive lithium-niobate
crystal. Some systems use a photopolymer in place of the
crystal. A second beam, called the 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 carried by the signal beam in a
specific area in the crystal -- the data is stored as a
hologram.
Reference: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/hvd.html
 How HVD compares Others ?
While HVD is attempting to revolutionize data storage, other
discs are trying to improve upon current systems. Two such
discs are Blu-ray and HD-DVD, deemed the next-generation
of digital storage.

Blu-ray HD-DVD HVD

Initial cost for
recordaable Approx. $18 Approx. $10 Approx. $120
disc
Initial storage
54 GB 30 GB 300 GB
capacity
Read/write
36.5 Mbps 36.5 Mbps 1 Gbps
speed
Conclusion
• HVD will soon replace previous DVDs.
• It is currently supported by more than 170 of the
world's leading consumer electronics, personal
computer, recording media, video game and
music companies.
• The format also has broad support from the
major movie studios as a successor to today's
DVD format.