HOLOGRAPHICS VERSATILE DISK

(HVD)

Presented By:
Rashmi Routray
ENTC-A
Regd No: 0701206012

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Outline of Seminar

o Introduction.
o A little back ground.
o What is HVD ?
o How it works.
o Advantages.
o Conclusion

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A LITTLE BACK GROUND

 Polaroid scientist Pieter J. van Heerden first

proposed the idea of holographic (three-
dimensional) storage in the early 1960s.
 A decade later, scientists at RCA Laboratories
demonstrated the technology by recording 500
holograms in an iron-doped lithium-niobate
crystal.

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Contd
The first step in understanding holographic
memory 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.

BIREN BIHARI SAHOO, ENTC(B), DRIEMS 4

WHAT IS HVD ?
 HVD is an optical disc , which stores 3.9
terrabytes of information .
 It’s a higher version of CD’s , DVD’s and
BLUE RAY DISC’S , as it can store nearly
200 times information then a single sided
DVD and 20 times to that of Blueray disc’s .
 Most important is it can store data in 3-D .

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Components
 The components that are needed to construct
HVD: Blue-green argon laser
Beam splitters to spilt the laser beam
Mirrors to direct the laser beams
LCD panel (spatial light modulator)
Lenses to focus the laser beams
Lithium-niobate crystal or photopolymer
Charge-coupled device (CCD) camera
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STRUCTURE OF HVD

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HOW IT WORKS

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WORKING
When the blue-green argon laser is fired, a
beam splitter creates two beams.
One beam, called the 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.

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Data Recording

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Contd
The information then is carried by the signal
beam to the light-sensitive lithium-niobate
crystal or photopolymer in place of 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
beam in a specific area in the crystal -- the
data is stored as a hologram pattern that is
created ,stores the data carried by the signal
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Data Reading process:

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Contd
To read the data from an HVD, we need to retrieve
the light pattern stored in the hologram.
In the HVD read system, the laser projects a light
beam onto the hologram -- a light beam that is
identical to the reference beam.
The hologram diffracts this beam according to the
specific pattern.The resulting light recreates the
image of the page. When this beam of light -- the
reconstruction beam -- bounces back off the disc
it travels to the CMOS sensor. The CMOS sensor
then reproduces the page data.
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CMOS SENSOR

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BIREN BIHARI SAHOO, ENTC(B), DRIEMS 15
Page data stored in an HVD (left) &
recreated by CMOS sensor (right)

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Writing Process
The process of writing information onto an
HVD begins with encoding the information
into binary data to be stored in the SLM.
These data are turned into ones and zeroes
represented as opaque or translucent areas
on a "page" -- this page is the image that the
information beam is going to pass through.

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BIREN BIHARI SAHOO, ENTC(B), DRIEMS 18
Data Image

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ADVANTAGE
HVD can store more than 1 terabyte of data that is 200 times more
than DVD & 20times more than Blue-ray.
Transfer rate of HVD 1Gb per second which is 40 times faster than
DVD.
HVD retrieves & stores data at 60,000 bits In one single pulse of
light,i.e it stores in an overlapping pattern while a DVD stores and
retrieves one bit of data in one pulse of light. .
The size and thickness of an HVD is also compatible with CDs and
DVDs,it uses a thicker recording layer .
HVD stores information in entire volume of disc .
To increase capacity, holographic storage uses laser beams to store
digital data in three dimensions, rather than in two dimensions as in
CD and DVD media

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CONCLUSION
HVD is a higher version of CD’S , DVD’S and even
BLUE RAY DISC’S . As it provides greater flexibility in
storage of data, despite high costs as a HVD can cost
around USD $120 it’ll still establish itself as a popular
option .

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REFERENCES
www.howstuffwork.com
www.wikipedia.com
www.photonics.com
www.optware.com

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