• Tatsu, Eriko
• Shiozawa, Manabu
• Watanabe, Takao
• Miura, Kiyotaka
• Sakakura, Masaaki
• Nakabayashi, Miki
• Watanabe, Koichi
• Shimotsuma, Yasuhiko
• Mine, Toshiyuki
• Umeda, Mariko
• Kimura, Shigeharu

Abstract

<jats:p>A driveless, multilayer read system was demonstrated as applicable to a permanent digital-storage using fused silica. The combination of a low-magnification microscope and signal processing were simple enough to be emulated in the distant future. Test data were recorded in a 2-mm-thick fused-silica plate by a femtosecond laser to form four layers with dot pitch of 2.8 µm and interlayer distance of 60 µm. The total recording density was 40 Mbytes/in.<jats:sup>2</jats:sup>, which is as high as that of a conventional compact disc. This system achieved a bit-error rate in the order of 10<jats:sup>-3</jats:sup> when reading the test data (without error-correction code) from images taken at a 19.5-times-magnification. Signal processing using unsharp masking and subtraction of images at different focal points effectively contribute to read data from blurred image with the low bit-error rate.</jats:p>

Topics

• density
• impedance spectroscopy