InPhase Technologies ship blue laser holographic media

InPhase Technologies has announced the shipping the first blue laser holographic media that enables greater amounts of information to be stored on a single disc.
The new media, Tapestry HDS5000, developed in part with funds from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), builds on InPhase’s previous innovations in green wavelength holographic media. This breakthrough blue wavelength media will be used in holographic recorders and players that will have terabytes of capacity on a single disc.
The Tapestry HDS5000 media is available today for customer shipments. InPhase has been shipping holographic media to holographic device developers since 2001. Tapestry HDS5000 is photosensitive to blue laser wavelengths from 400-410 nanometers (nm). These lasers, developed for use in next-generation blue laser DVD devices, are being incorporated into InPhase’ s holographic systems, currently under development.
Blue media increases the data density over the earlier green versions due to the shorter wavelength. Earlier versions of the InPhase Tapestry product line, HDS1000, HDS2000, and HDS3000, use green lasers at 510-532 nm. InPhase will continue to sell these media formulations.
The Tapestry HDS5000 media will be available through the InPhase Media Evaluation Program. The program is designed to accelerate the development of holographic storage products in a broad range of applications by making InPhase holographic media and development equipment available to a wide variety of product developers in the digital imaging market.
The InPhase Media Evaluation Program includes optional on-site training at InPhase headquarters in Longmont, Colorado, as well as consultation on holographic drive/device development and joint development activities.
InPhase’s Tapestry HDS-200R drive, the first-generation recordable holographic drive, is expected to reach the market in 2006.
With a capacity of 200 gigabytes and a 20-megabyte-per-second transfer rate, a single disc will hold almost 100 million pages of text, 200,000 photos, over 1,500 hours of audio, or 14 hours of high definition video.
For more information on InPhase, visit www.inphase-tech.com.
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