Holographic Versatile Disc

Prepared by :
 DARPAN KORAT
 07IT913
 CONTENTS

 What is HVD ?
 Holographic Versatile Disc Structure
 Working Principal
 HVD Write System
 HVD Read System
 Advantages
 How HVD compares Others ?
 Conclusion
 What is HVD ?

 Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) is an optical disc technology which

would hold up to 3.9 terabytes (TB) of information .

 An HVD is an advanced optical disk that’s presently in the development

stage. Polaroid scientist J van Heerden was the first to come up with
the idea for holographic three-dimensional storage in 1960.

 Holographic memory systems have been around for decades. They offer
far more storage capacity than CDs and DVDs -- even "next-generation"
DVDs like Blu-ray -- and their transfer rates leave conventional discs in
the dust.

 Basics of Holographic Disk

 The first step in understanding holographic

disk is to understand what "holographic"
means. Holography is a method of recording
patterns of light to produce a three-
dimensional object.

 The recorded patterns of light are called a

hologram.
 HVD Structure
 Green writing/reading laser (532 nm)
 Red positioning/addressing laser (650 nm)
 Hologram (data)
 Polycarbon layer
 Photopolymeric layer (data-containing layer)
 Distance layers
 Dichotic layer (reflecting green light)
 Aluminium reflective layer (reflecting red light)
Dimension of HVD
 Working Principle
 HVD uses a technology called 'collinear holography,' in
which two laser rays, one is blue-green and another is red,
are collimated into a single beam..

 The blue-green laser reads data encoded as laser

interference fringes from a holographic layer near the top
of the disc while the red laser is used as the reference
beam and to read servo information from a regular CD-
style aluminium layer near the bottom.

 Servo information is used to monitor the position of the

read head over the disc, similar to the head, track, and
sector information on a conventional hard disk drive.
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 HVD Write System
 A simplified HVD system consists of the following
main components:

 Blue or green laser (532-nm wavelength in the

test system)
 Beam splitter/merger
 Mirrors
 Spatial light modulator (SLM)
 CMOS sensor
 Polymer recording medium
 Cont…..

 The process of writing information onto an

HVD begins with encoding the information
into binary data to be stored in the SLM.
These data are turned into ones and zeroes
represented as opaque or translucent areas
on a "page" -- this page is the image that the
information beam is going to pass through.
 Data image

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 Collinear Holography
Recording Process

Reference Pattern

Information Pattern

SLM
Media

Lens
 Collinear Holography
Reconstructing Process

Reference Pattern Reflective

Reconstructed Layer

SLM
Media

Lens
BS
How Collinear Holography works
SLM Inner :Information
Outer :Reference
Diffracted information
beam (page data)
Diffracted reference
beam (modulated)
Objective Lens

Fourier transformed
information beam
Fourier transformed
reference beam

Cover Layer
Recording Layer
Reflective Layer
Recorded Hologram
 Page data (left) stored as hologram (right)

 HVD Read System
 To read the data from an HVD, you need to
retrieve the light pattern stored in the
hologram.
 In the HVD read system, the laser projects a
light beam onto the hologram -- a light beam
-- a light beam that is identical to the
reference beam.
Cont….
 An advantage of a holographic memory system is that an entire
page of data can be retrieved quickly and at one time. In order
to retrieve and reconstruct the holographic page of data stored
in the crystal, the reference beam is shined into the crystal at
exactly the same angle at which it entered to store that page of
data. Each page of data is stored in a different area of the
crystal, based on the angle at which the reference beam strikes
it.
 The key component of any holographic data storage system is
the angle at which the reference beam is fired at the crystal to
retrieve a page of data. It must match the original reference
beam angle exactly. A difference of just a thousandth of a
millimeter will result in failure to retrieve that page of data.
Cont…
 During reconstruction, the beam will be
diffracted by the crystal to allow the
recreation of the original page that was
stored. This reconstructed page is then
projected onto the CMOS, which interprets
and forwards the digital information to a
computer.
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Page data stored in an HVD (left) and recreated by CMOS sensor (right)
 Advantages
 High Storage capacity of 3.9 terabyte(TB)
enables user to store large amount of data.
 Records one program while watching
another on the disc.
 Edit or reorder programs recorded on the
disc.
 Automatically search for an empty space on
the disc to avoid recording over a program.
 Continued………….

Users will be able to connect to the Internet and

instantly download subtitles and other interactive
movie features

Backward compatible: Supports CDs and DVDs

also.

The transfer rate of HVD is up to 1 gigabyte (GB)

per second which is 40 times faster than DVD .

An HVD stores and retrieves an entire page of

data, approximately 60,000 bits of information, in one
pulse of light, while a DVD stores and retrieves one
Comparison
 How HVD compares Others ?
While HVD is attempting to revolutionize data storage, other
discs are trying to improve upon current systems. Two such
discs are Blu-ray and HD-DVD, deemed the next-generation
of digital storage.

  Blu-ray HD-DVD HVD

Initial cost for  Approx. $18 Approx. $10 Approx. $120
recordaable disc
Initial storage  54 GB 30 GB 300 GB
capacity
Read/write speed 36.5 Mbps 36.5 Mbps 1 Gbps
Multiplexing Method

Cover Layer

Recording Layer

Write Position Shift HVD is “On the Fly”

Shift Pitch Capacity per Disc

(12cmφ )*
18 µ m 100 GB
13 µ m 200 GB
8µ m 500 GB
(*at32kbit/page)
3µ m 3.9 TB
Conclusion
 HVD will soon replace previous DVDs.
 It is currently supported by more than 170 of
the world's leading consumer electronics,
personal computer, recording media, video
game and music companies.
 The format also has broad support from the
major movie studios as a successor to
today's DVD format.