Holographic Storage: Overcoming Limitations of the Optical Disk Medium for Applications in Libraries, Archives, and Information Centers

Authors

  • Kenneth A. Cory Wayne State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/cais723

Abstract

From the 1994 CAIS Conference:
The Information Industry in Transition
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. May 25 - 27, 1994.

Imaging, the application of digital technology to the management and manipulation of information in non-digital format (paper, etc.) is an attractive possibility for offices. However, directors of libraries, archives, and information centers have been reluctant to fully embrace imaging because it consumes voluminous quantities of expensive storage space, and because of unsatisfactory retrieval times. Holographic technology, in which data is stored in three dimensions and is returned simultaneously, will make large scale digital conversion projects practical.

Limitations of two-dimensional optical storage media are contrasted with the holographic medium. Also described is how data is written to and read from a crystal.

Author Biography

Kenneth A. Cory, Wayne State University

University Libraries

Library and Information Science Program

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Published

2013-11-01

How to Cite

Cory, K. A. (2013). Holographic Storage: Overcoming Limitations of the Optical Disk Medium for Applications in Libraries, Archives, and Information Centers. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS Actes Du congrès Annuel De l’ACSI. https://doi.org/10.29173/cais723

Issue

1994

Section

Articles