Holographic Random Access Memory (HRAM)

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1931-1940

  Chuang, Ernest ^a,c   Liu, Wenhai ^a   Drolet, Jean Jacques P ^b   Psaltis, Demetri ^a,b  

^a SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MicroDisplay Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Holographic memories; Laser array; Phase conjugation; Photorefractive effect; Random access memories

Indexed keywords

HOLOGRAPHY; LASER RECORDING; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT REFRACTION; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; PHOTODETECTORS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

HOLOGRAPHIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES (HRAM);

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 0033221571     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.796355     Document Type: Article

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