History and Physical Principles

The physical principles of holography involve the recording of the interference pattern formed between two beams of light and the subsequent illumination of that recorded pattern by one of the beams to recreate the other beam. In the specific case of holographic data storage, one beam is an information beam containing a two-dimensional pattern of 1s and Os representing digital data. Think of it as a special image. The other beam is a reference beam used to form the interference pattern that is recorded and subsequently used to reconstruct the information beam. Storage densities as high as 100 Gbits/inch2 and data rates of 1.0 Gbits/s can be realized.

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