摘要:
A recording head includes a near-field transducer proximate a media-facing surface of the recording head and a waveguide that overlaps and delivers light to the near-field transducer. The recording head includes subwavelength-sized focusing mirror comprising first and second reflectors disposed on cross track sides of the near-field transducer. Each of the first and second reflectors is spaced apart from the media-facing surface by a distance, D, measured along an axis normal to the media-facing surface.
摘要:
A lighting apparatus includes: a light source generating a first color component light; a separation element partially transmitting the first color component light, partially reflecting the first color component light, and transmitting a second color component light different from the first color component light at a certain moment; an illuminant excited by the first color component light transmitted through the separation element to generate the second color component light; and an optical system combining the first color component light made incident on the separation element from the light source and reflected by the separation element with the second color component light made incident on the separation element from the illuminant and transmitted through the separation element. The separation element is configured to have variable transmittance and reflectance with respect to the first color component light.
摘要:
Systems and methods for long-term non-volatile non-rotating optical storage of digital information rely on storage elements that include optical storage media, an access subsystem configured to access bits of information from one of the storage elements, and a support structure configured to support multiple storage elements. A laser used to retrieve and/or record bits of digital information may be moved along two orthogonal dimensions while the storage element is non-rotating.
摘要:
The optical information recording/reproduction device for recording information by irradiating an optical information recording medium with signal light and reference light to form a hologram, and reproducing the information by irradiating the hologram with the reference light, wherein the optical information recording/reproduction device is provided with a branching element for branching laser light from a laser light source into signal light and reference light, a spatial light modulation unit for adding two-dimensional information to the signal light, an objective lens for irradiating an optical information recording medium with the signal light, a photodetector for detecting diffracted light from the optical information recording medium when irradiated with the reference light, and an optical axis adjustment unit disposed between the laser light source and the branching element, the optical axis adjustment unit adjusting the optical axis of the laser light.
摘要:
A laser light source emits a laser light of an elliptical shape in its polarization plane in parallel to the information recording surface of an optical disc. The laser light is incident into a raising unit, which is placed in a manner that the plane including the optical axis of the incident light and the optical axis of the reflected light forms about 45 degrees with respect to the tangential line direction of the optical disc, in a manner that the direction of the major axis of the elliptical-shaped polarization plane of the laser light is in parallel to the information recording surface of the optical disc. Then, the laser light reflected by the raising unit is focused and irradiated on the information recording surface of an optical disc as a spot light.
摘要:
A one-piece element for splitting part of the radiation of an incident beam, to form a sub-beam having a different direction. The element includes a mirror for reflecting the sub-beam at an increased angle with respect to the direction of the incident beam. The element is preferably a homogeneous molding, with an internally reflecting mirror.
摘要:
A reproduction apparatus dividing a cross section of superposed light into a plurality of regions in a tangential and/or radial direction includes: an optical system configured to generate each of a first set of signal light and reference light having a phase difference of approximately 0°, a second set of signal light and reference light having a phase difference of approximately 180°, a third set of signal light and reference light having a phase difference of approximately 90°, and a fourth set of signal light and reference light having a phase difference of approximately 270°, using a plurality of superposed light beams corresponding to the divided regions; an optical receiver configured to output signals corresponding to the sets of the signal light and the reference light; and a circuit configured to compute signals as differences between the signals, and obtain a reproduction signal by computation from the computed signals.
摘要:
Systems and methods for long-term non-volatile non-rotating optical storage of digital information rely on storage elements that include optical storage media, an access subsystem configured to access bits of information from one of the storage elements, and a support structure configured to support multiple storage elements. A laser used to retrieve and/or record bits of digital information may be moved along two orthogonal dimensions while the storage element is non-rotating.
摘要:
Systems and methods for long-term non-volatile non-rotating optical storage of digital information rely on storage elements that include optical storage media, an access subsystem configured to access bits of information from one of the storage elements, and a support structure configured to support multiple storage elements. A laser used to retrieve and/or record bits of digital information may be moved along two orthogonal dimensions while the storage element is non-rotating.
摘要:
This invention relates a method of six-dimensional optical multilayer storage using two-photon absorption writing, erasing and optical coherence tomography reading and the apparatus designed based on this method. The invented system stores data in three spatial dimensions plus three physical dimensions of wavelength, intensity and polarization. It has large storage capacity of over 32 Tbytes per DVD sized disk and ultrafast reading speed of over 25 Gbits/s with high signal-to-noise ratio of over 76 dB. The larger capacity of over 1 Pbyte per disk is potential. Furthermore, the invented system has relatively simple optical structure, easy light manipulation for addressing the storage cell and high compatibility with the CDs and DVDs. It is an actually practicable optical large capacity storage technology.