Today
the need for digital storage capacity is on increase, with a rate
growth of 60% per annum. There is strong requirement for more storage
facility for the amenities like the storage area networks, data
warehouses, supercomputers and e-commerce related data mining as the
volume of data to be processed is ever rising.
The arrival of high bandwidth Internet and data-intensive applications
such as high-definition TV (HDTV) and video & music on-demand, even
smaller devices such as personal VCRs, PDAs, mobile phones etc will
require multi-gigabyte and terabyte capacity in the next couple of
years.
This ever-increasing capacity demand can only be only managed by the steady increase in the areal density of the magnetic and optical recording media. In future, this density increase is feasible only by taking advantage of the shorter wavelength lasers, higher lens numerical aperture (NA) or by employing near-field techniques. This increase is best achieved with optical memory technologies.
Fluorescent multiplayer disc (FMD) is a three dimensional storage that can store a large volume of data and is also capable of increasing the capacity of a given volume with an aim to achieve a cubic storage element having the dimensions of writing or reading laser wavelength. The current wavelength of 650 µm should be sufficient enough to store up to a Terabyte of data.
This ever-increasing capacity demand can only be only managed by the steady increase in the areal density of the magnetic and optical recording media. In future, this density increase is feasible only by taking advantage of the shorter wavelength lasers, higher lens numerical aperture (NA) or by employing near-field techniques. This increase is best achieved with optical memory technologies.
Fluorescent multiplayer disc (FMD) is a three dimensional storage that can store a large volume of data and is also capable of increasing the capacity of a given volume with an aim to achieve a cubic storage element having the dimensions of writing or reading laser wavelength. The current wavelength of 650 µm should be sufficient enough to store up to a Terabyte of data.