Title :
Military optical memory storage
Author :
Lovett, Allan ; Lyells, Ron
Author_Institution :
Defense Avionics Syst. Div., Honeywell Inc., Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
It is pointed out that, in the 1980s, many companies erroneously believed that it was possible to modify a commercial optical drive and media design for use in the military environment. Honeywell has successfully developed a militarized 300-Mbyte write-once read-many (WORM) optical drive, took it into full production, and is applying this flight-proven knowledge to rewritable magnetooptic (MO) technology. The authors describe the lessons learned and how those lessons apply to current and future military optical drive developments
Keywords :
aerospace computing; aircraft instrumentation; laser beam applications; magneto-optical recording; military computing; military equipment; optical disc storage; 300 MByte; WORM; flashlight; laser thermal control; military avionics; military optical drive; optical disc storage; optical head; rewritable magnetooptic technology; write-once read-many; Aerospace electronics; Glass; Magnetooptic devices; Military aircraft; Moisture; Optical design; Optical distortion; Optical recording; Optical refraction; Production;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1991. NAECON 1991., Proceedings of the IEEE 1991 National
Conference_Location :
Dayton, OH
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0085-8
DOI :
10.1109/NAECON.1991.165762
