Feasibility Analysis of Ultra Fast Data Rate Optical Random Access Storage Systems

"The objective of this effort will be to demonstrate the feasibility of producing at low cost, a removable write-once random access volumetric digital storage system that is capable of very high capacity (~TByte per removable media), fast access time(~100ms), and ultra fast recording and readout data rates (~1Gb/S) while achieving very high volumetric densities (~3Tb/in3). These figures make the proposed hybrid tape and disk based system ideally suited for security, and reconnaissance systemssupporting high-speed data filtering, and content as well as index based data searching algorithms. The proposed hybrid tape recording disk readout approach presents the opportunity to launch a series of new products targeted for security andreconnaissance systems by the second half of this decade providing revolutionary performance critically needed for these applications."