Optical Disk Technology for Large Scale Mass Storage.

Abstract

Optical disk has been under intense investigation as a digital mass storage mechanism since the mid 1970's. Since that time, even before potential manufacturers had systems in hand, the technology has been touted as the panacea to cure all the supposed ills of magnetic based storage mechanisms. It is very important to gain an understanding of digital optical disk and what it can or cannot do in a particular application scenario before deciding if it is the answer to a storage problems. This report attempts to acquaint the potential techniques employed to overcome some of the perceived shortcomings. Keywords included: Optical disk; Digital optical disk; and Mass storage.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA163453

Entities

People

  • Jack D. Petruzelli

Organizations

  • Rome Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Coding
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Rate
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Digital Data
  • Environment
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser Diodes
  • Lasers
  • Magnetic Disks
  • Mass Storage
  • Materials
  • Optical Storage
  • Recording Systems

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Economics
  • Materials Science and Engineering.