A spinning disk test stand for two-color, tungsten oxide based optical memory system

Author

Bussjager, Rebecca ; Getbehead, Mark ; Osman, Joseph M. ; Hinkel, Capt Dan ; Grueza, D. ; McEwen, Thomas ; Myers, Brook ; Holzhauer, Nathan ; Chaiken, Joseph

Author_Institution

Air Force Res. Lab., Rome NY, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

329

Abstract

We have constructed and tested a spin stand based demonstration system for a new form of optical memory. Based on a new two color storage process which utilizes a form of tungsten oxide as the physical medium, this system offers potential advantages in storage density, write speed, signal to noise, processing flexibility, data robustness, and overall cost. In this paper we describe the system and its performance on prototype disks. Issues regarding choices of wavelengths, write power and speed are discussed

Keywords

automatic test equipment; optical materials; optical storage; optical testing; tungsten compounds; DVD RAM; DVD ROM; WO₃; WO₃WO₅; data robustness; processing flexibility; prototype disks; signal to noise; speed; spin stand based demonstration; spinning disk test stand; storage density; two color storage; two-color optical memory; write power; write speed; Color; Colored noise; Costs; Noise robustness; Optical noise; Prototypes; Signal processing; Spinning; System testing; Tungsten;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

Snowmass at Aspen, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5425-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.1999.789793

Filename

789793