​HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY

​B-Tech Seminar Report ‘09

Submitted in partial fulfilment for the award of the degree of

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication engineering

BY
NITHA S KUMAR

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS &

COMMUNICATION
SREE BUDDHA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,PATOOR
, ALEPPEY DIST: , KERALA – 690529 ,

​CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that paper entitled

“HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY”
 Is a bonafide report of the seminar done by
NITHA S KUMAR
(Candidate Code: 06 414 044)
during the year 2009 in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of Degree of
Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication of the University of Kerala
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Guide : Mrs.RAGIMOL​ ​ Dr.SOMI SEBASTIAN
Lecturer,Dept. of ECE Head of Department,ECE

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I give all glory and honour to ALMIGHTY GOD who gave me as his
guiding hands to complete this seminar in a successful manner.I take this oppurtinity to express
my sincere thanks to all those persons from whom I have drawn inspiration as well as
information for preparing this seminar.I also take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude
to all those who had given guidance, consistence, advice and encouragement in my seminar.
First and foremost I would like to convey my sincere thanks to ​DR.SOMI SEBASTIAN​, Head
of Department, Electronics and Communication for permitting me to do this seminar.
Iam also extremely grateful to our seminar coordinator ​Mrs.REKHA C.R ​and internal guide
Mrs.RAGIMOL, Lecturer in Electronics and Communication who has been been a true support
and always been a helping hand for preparing the seminar.I would like to express my heartful
gratitude to all the staff that helped and supported me for preparing this seminar.
ABSTRACT

This paper describes holographic data storage as a viable alternative to

magnetic disk data storage. Currently data access times are extremely slow for magnetic
disks when compared to the speed of execution of CPUs so that any improvement in data access
speeds will greatly increase the capabilities of computers, especially with large data and
multimedia files. Holographic memory is a technology that uses a three dimensional medium
to store data and it can access such data a page at a time instead of sequentially, which leads
to increases in storage density and access speed. Holographic data storage systems are very
close to becoming economically feasible. Obstacles that limit holographic memory are
hologram decay over time and with repeated accesses, slow recording rates, and data
transfer rates that need to be increased. Photorefractive crystals and photopolymers have been
used successfully in experimental holographic data storage systems. Such systems exploit
the optical properties of these photosensitive materials along with the behavior of laser light
when it is used to record an image of an object. Holographic memory lies between main
memory and magnetic disk in regards to data access times, data transfer rates, and data storage
density.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1
1.1Introduction…………………………………………….1
1.2Holography…………………………………………..…3
1.2.1Creating Holograms……………………………......4
1.2.2Retrieving Holograms…………………………...…5
Chapter 2
2.1Recording Of Data In Holographic Memory…………..6
2.2Reading Of Data From Holographic Memory………....7
Chapter 3
3.1 The System…………………………………….……...9
3.2 Application To Binary……………………………….11
3.3 Storage Medium……………………………………...13
3.3.1 Experiment……………………………………...14
 3.4 Holographic Memory Layout…………………….…..17
Chapter 4
4.1 Multiplexing……………………………………...….18
4.1.1Angular Multiplexing
4.1.2Wavelength Multiplexing
4.1.3Spatial Multiplexing
4.1.4Phase-Encoded Multiplexing
Chapter 5
5.1Recording Errors……………………………………20
5.2Interfacing…………………………………………...21
5.1.1Smart Interfacing
5.1.2Intelligent Interfacing

Chapter 6
6.1Holographic Memory Vs. Existing Memory……..22
6.2Merits&Challenges……………………………..…23
Chapter 7
7.1 Possible Applications…………………………...24
7.2 Future Scope…………………………………….25
Chapter 8
8.1Conclusion………………………………..…… .26
8.2 References………………………………….…...27