Apparatus is disclosed that comprises a holographic memory device in which a plurality of data packets are stored as diffractive patterns, a beam system adapted to transmit a reference beam to the memory device to read the packets sequentially, a microlens array, a solid state scanning system (e.g a microoptoelectromechanical device) and a photodetector array in which the microlens array is adapted to focus the output beam corresponding to each data packet on the same spatial area in the central part of a solid state scanning system and the solid state scanning system then routes it to a photodetector array. This allows the use of a fast solid state scanning system, which has a limited angular scanning range, without losing data at the edge of the matrix of points in which the data packet is recorded.