High Density Optical Data Storage

The objective of this effort will be to demonstrate the feasibility of producing at low cost, a removable write-once random access near-field multi-layer optical digital storage system that is capable of very high capacity (~TByte per removable media),while achieving very high data densities (> 1Tb/sq.in.). These figures make the proposed near-field multi-layer based system ideally suited for security and reconnaissance systems supporting high-speed data filtering, and content as well as index baseddata searching algorithms. The proposed near-field photochromic multi-layer optical data storage approach presents opportunity to launch a series of new products targeted for security and reconnaissance systems by the second half of this decade, providingrevolutionary performance critically needed for these applications.