InPhase's Tapestry product wins R&D 100 Award

InPhase Technologies, a leader in holographic data storage development, have announced that they have won R&D Magazine’s 2002 R&D 100 Award for the development of their stable, high-performance holographic data storage media.
InPhase Tapestry is the result of the development of a new class of materials that enable long-life, reliable, low-cost, high-capacity storage media for holographic recording. InPhase is positioned to become the first company to deliver a commercial-grade holographic storage system for recording and archiving data.
The editors of R&D Magazine recognise the 100 most technologically significant products and processes of the year and selected the recipients of this award from entries initially reviewed and screened by outside experts - including professional consultants, university faculty and industry researchers.
InPhase originally developed the holographic data storage system, Tapestry, as part of the physical sciences research group at Bell Labs in 1997. The InPhase polymer media fabricated by InPhase’s ZeroWave process is dimensionally and thermally stable, has high photosensitivity, is of high-optical quality, and can be provided to customers at a very competitive price.
“The stellar work that our scientists and engineers have conducted over the past 10 years, both at Bell Labs and at InPhase, have yielded what many thought was unachievable: a stable, working recording system and media for holographic data storage,” said Nelson Diaz, president and CEO of InPhase Technologies.
“We project a broad range of applications for our Tapestry products, which will significantly improve the way information is recorded and stored.”
The InPhase Tapestry system projects holograms into the media when the signal beam and reference beam intersect. Data is encoded onto the signal beam by a spatial light modulator (SLM), which translates electronic data in an optical array of 1.3 million bits. Data is read when the reference beam deflects off the hologram, which is then projected onto a detector. This process is conducted in parallel, enabling faster transfer rates.
InPhase Technologies, www.inphase-tech.com
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