摘要:
A hologram with a dynamically controlled diffraction efficiency and enhanced signal-to-noise ratio is recorded in ferroelectric photorefractive materials, such as strontium barium niobate (Sr.sub.x Ba.sub.1-x Nb.sub.2 O.sub.6) (SBN), BSTN, SCNN, PBN, BSKNN, BaTiO.sub.3, LiNbO.sub.3, KNbO.sub.3, KTN, PLZT and the tungsten bronze family. The diffraction efficiency of the hologram is dynamically controlled by applying an electric field along the polar axis of the ferroelectric photorefractive recording medium. Electrically controlled diffraction is used in conjunction with hologram fixing and operation of the material at a temperature in the vicinity of or above its Curie temperature to additionally provide prolonged, low-noise readout. The general methods for recording and reconstructing a hologram (or a set of multiplexed holograms) using these techniques is disclosed. A plurality of configurations employing the improved hologram are disclosed, including an optical crossbar switch in guided-wave and free-space formats that can function as a component in a variety of parallel optical processing systems, a reconfigurable dynamic wavelength filter, and a page-based holographic data storage system.
摘要:
A portable content container is disclosed comprising a decoder for decoding an A/V file into an A/V stream. File directory information identifying one or more A/V files is transmitted to a consumer device. A display command is received from the consumer device to display a selected one of the A/V files on a display device. The selected A/V file is decoded into an A/V stream transmitted to the display device in response to the display command. In an embodiment, the portable content container further comprises local memory for storing A/V files.
摘要:
The embodiments provide for legally transferring multimedia content stored on a medium to a personal content archive device. The device is configured to consolidate a user's content into a single device or secured storage that allows easy access to the content while preserving the digital rights of the content. When a content medium has been provided, the device queries a registration service over a network, such as the Internet, to register the content and indicate that it was legitimately obtained. The device may then be authorized to download and store an authorized version of the content into its secured storage. The authorized version may be the same or a variation of the registered content. The content may then be downloaded from one or more content sources. The registration process may be based on several criteria, such as an authenticity check of the medium, a fee payment, and the like.
摘要:
Applications, systems and methods for efficiently accessing and controlling data of devices among multiple computers over a network. Strategic cache management processes are provided to manage the data in cache memory of the storage devices involved. Communication of data over the network may be managed by means of one or more connection servers which may also manage any or all of authentication, authorization, security, encryption and point-to-multipoint communications functionalities. Alternatively, computers may be connected over a wide area network without a connection server, and with or without a VPN. Data transmissions may be managed to minimize bandwidth and may be temporally and/or spatially compressed.
摘要:
A method and system for enabling multiple users from different physical locations to access, observe, control and manipulate physical processes and devices over a computer network such as the Internet is disclosed. A user may visually monitor the physical set up and state of an experiment or environment by receiving live video and data, as well as directly control instrumentation while receiving live feedback regarding the input commands. Measurement data may be collected into a database and computational analysis can be generated and displayed as a physical process is being performed. An online interactive laboratory notebook is also provided that manages items such as collected data, laboratory parameters, “to do” lists, personal notes, etc.
摘要:
A mask layer for a high-density near-field optical storage system includes nonlinear optical material and nanoparticles embedded in the nonlinear optical material. The mask layer in combination with a data layer is useful for forming an optical disk. One technique for storing data in the optical disk includes using a gate beam to modify an index of refraction in a modified portion of the nonlinear optical material using a signal beam to provide nanoparticle resonance excitation of selected nanoparticles within the modified portion of the nonlinear optical material.
摘要:
Near-field sub-wavelength C-apertures provide enhanced spatial resolution and power throughput by increasing the normalized resonant wavelength of the aperture. These improved apertures are characterized by the use of improved geometric proportions for C-apertures, filling the aperture with high-index material, designing aperture thickness to produce longitudinal transmission resonance, and/or tapering the aperture in the longitudinal direction to achieve impedance matching. Apertures according to the present invention may be used for many technological applications in various portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Exemplary applications to high density optical data storage and optical particle trapping and manipulation are described.
摘要:
An encryption method and apparatus for holographic data storage are disclosed. In a system using orthogonal phase-code multiplexing, data is encrypted by modulating the reference beam using an encryption key K represented by a unitary operator. In practice, the encryption key K corresponds to a diffuser or other phase-modulating element placed in the reference beam path, or to shuffling the correspondence between the codes of an orthogonal phase function and the corresponding pixels of a phase spatial light modulator. Because of the lack of Bragg selectivity in the vertical direction, the phase functions used for phase-code multiplexing are preferably one dimensional. Such phase functions can be one-dimensional Walsh functions. The encryption method preserves the orthogonality of reference beams, and thus does not lead to a degradation in crosstalk performance.
摘要:
A method for encoding and decoding digital data for storage in a holographic medium (12). Digital data, consisting of binary data (B.sub.i) or grey scale data (A.sub.i), is encoded in bit groups or digit groups (B.sub.k, A.sub.k) containing at least k=1 bits or digits, respectively, by assigning to each bit group (B.sub.k) one reference bit (B.sub.r) and to each digit group (A.sub.k) two reference digits (A.sub.r1, A.sub.r2), assigning the bits of group (B.sub.k) to information bits (B.sub.j), assigning the digits of group (A.sub.k) to information digits (A.sub.j), assigning the reference bit (B.sub.r) and information digits (B.sub.j) to a reference pixel (P.sub.r) and information pixels (P.sub.j) chosen from pixels (24) of a holographic signal modulator (18), and assigning the reference digits (A.sub.r1, A.sub.r2) and information digits (A.sub.j) to reference pixels (P.sub.r1, P.sub.r2) and information pixels (P.sub.j) chosen from pixels (24) of the holographic signal modulator (18). Storing all pixels (24) by illuminating the holographic signal modulator (18) with a signal beam (22) which impresses upon the signal beam (29) pixels (24), guiding the signal beam (22) to the holographic medium (12) and storing the pixels (24) by directing a reference beam (26) at the holographic medium (12) from a predetermined angle .beta. and at a predetermined part of the holographic medium (12). Decoding the encoded binary data (B.sub.i) and encoded grey scale data (A.sub.i) by aiming the reference beam (26) at the holographic medium (12) at the same angle .beta. and location as during storage, recovering pixels (24) and recovering from them using a decoding unit (38) reference bits (B.sub.r) and information bits (B.sub.j) for each bit group (B.sub.k), and recovering reference digits (A.sub.r1, A.sub.r2) and information digits (A.sub.j) for each digit group (A.sub.k). Reconstructing the original binary data (B.sub.i) by differentiating the binary values of bits (B.sub.r) and (B.sub.j). Reconstructing the grey scale data (A.sub.i) by differentiating the reference digits (A.sub.r1, A.sub.r2) to obtain a benchmark (D.sub.r) and applying a binary operation on the benchmark (D.sub.r) and each of the information digits (A.sub.j).
摘要:
A method is disclosed for transferring a media file from a first user device to a second user device. The first user device receives a first media file, and receives a first digital rights management (DRM) license from a DRM server corresponding to the first media file. The first user device encodes the first media file into a second media file using the first DRM license, and transfers the second media file to the second user device.