HOLOGRAPHIC VERSATILE DISC

K.S. Nitin
WILL DISCUSS ABOUT
What is HVD ?
Basics of Holographic Memory
Technology Comparison
HVD Technology
HVD Structure
The HVD System: Writing Data
The HVD System: Reading Data
HVD Capacity
How HVD compares ?
Advantages
HVD Alliance
HVD Forum
Conclusion
References
What is HVD?

Photo courtesy Optware

Holographic versatile disc

Is the next generation in optical disk technology

Will have a storage capacity of 3.9 terabytes (39,000 GB)
Data transfer rate of 1 GB/s.
 Basics of Holographic Memory

Holography - Method of recording patterns of light to produce a 3-D

object.
Hologram-The recorded patterns of light.

Storing - A laser beam splits into-

Reference beam - remains unchanged
Information beam - passes through an image.
Light interference takes place when these beams intersect. Photo courtesy Wolfgang Wieser
3-D image of the
Retrieving – Reconstruction beam is send to a CMOS to sensor to Death Star created by
holography
recreate the image.

The same concept is used here. The information beam encounters a

pattern of light and dark areas that represent ones and zeroes.
Technology Comparison

Courtesy Optware Courtesy Optware

DVD vs. HVD: Recording-layer depth Volumetric recording method
HVD Technology
Uses a technology called
‘collinear holography’.
Two laser rays, one
blue-green and one red,
are collimated into a
single beam.
Blue-green laser - Read
data encoded in the form
of laser interference
fringes.
Red laser (Reference
beam) - Read servo
information.
HVD Structure
1.Green writing/reading laser (532 nm)
2. Red positioning/addressing laser
(650 nm)
3. Hologram (data)
4. Polycarbon layer
5. Photopolymeric layer
(data-containing layer)
6. Distance layers
7. Dichroic layer (reflecting green light)
8. Aluminium reflective layer
(reflecting red light)
9. Transparent base
P. PIT
The HVD System: Writing Data
A simplified HVD
system consists
of the following main
components:
Blue or green laser
(532-nm wavelength
in the test system)
Beam splitter/merger
Mirrors
Spatial light
modulator (SLM)
CMOS sensor
Photopolymer
recording
medium
The HVD System: Reading Data
HVD Capacity
The entire US Library of Congress can be stored on six HVDs,
assuming that every book has been scanned in the text format. The
Library of Congress is the largest in the world and contains over
130 million items.

The pictures of every landmass on Earth - like the ones shown in

Google Earth can be stored on two HVDs.

With MPEG4 ASP encoding, a 3.9 TB HVD can hold anywhere

between 4,600-11,900 hours of video, which is enough for non-
stop playing for a year.
How HVD Compares?
Blu-ray HD-DVD HVD

Initial cost for

Approx. $18 Approx. $10 Approx. $120
recordable disc

Initial cost for

Approx. $2,000 Approx. $2,000 Approx. $3,000
recorder/player

Initial storage
54 GB 30 GB 300 GB
capacity

Read/write speed 36.5 Mbps 36.5 Mbps 1 Gbps

Advantages
High Storage capacity of 3.9 terabyte(TB).
Edit or reorder programs recorded on the disc.
Records one program while watching another on the disc.
Automatically search for an empty space on the disc to avoid
recording over a program.
Backward compatible: Supports CDs and DVDs also.
The transfer rate of HVD is up to 1 gigabyte (GB) per second
which is 40 times faster than DVD .
An HVD stores and retrieves an entire page of data,
approximately 60,000 bits of information, in one pulse of
light, while a DVD stores and retrieves one bit of data in one
pulse of light.
HVD Alliance
HVD Forum
The HVD FORUM (formerly the HVD Alliance) is a coalition of corporations
purposed to provide an industry forum for testing and technical discussion of
all aspects of HVD design & manufacturing.

Alps Electric Corporation, Ltd.

Optware Corporation
CMC Magnetics Corporation
Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc. (DIC)
EMTEC International (subsidiary of the MPO Group)
Fuji Photo Film Company, Ltd.
Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
LiteOn Technology Corporation
Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Company, Ltd. (MKM)
Conclusion
HVD will soon replace previous DVDs.

Currently supported by more than 170 of the world's leading

consumer electronics, personal computer, recording media,
video game and music companies.

The format also has broad support from the major movie
studios as a successor to today's DVD format.

Holographic Versatile Disc already has the backing of seven

out of eight leading Hollywood studios. It will soon be able to
enjoy a growing range of film entertainment with unsurpassed
Full HD pictures and cinema-quality multi-channel sound.
References
http://www.tech-faq.com/hvd.html
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/hvd.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_
Disc
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1759907,00.a
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http://www.news.com/Group-aims-to-drastically-up-
disc-storage/2100-1041_3-5562599.html