Gigabyte data storage - what next for lasers?

✍ Scribed by Roy Szweda

• Book ID: 104366114
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 28 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-1290
• DOI: 10.1016/s0961-1290(03)00101-7

✦ Synopsis

Violet laser diodes are at last emerging from the niche market stage. Moving on from instrumentation and into the mainstream, they are at the core of new demonstrations of advanced digital VCRs. Competition is hotting up in this sector, with the future less clear than ever, thanks to higher capacity DVD formats and hard-disk drive machines. Longer term, holographic data storage may see a revival, and the good news is that this could also require red and violet diode lasers.