'Rapid growth of computer communication service and internet users is demanding the computer memories which can deal with data in close to real time. Because data of computer communication and internet is large image data. Therefore, the next-generati...
'Rapid growth of computer communication service and internet users is demanding the computer memories which can deal with data in close to real time. Because data of computer communication and internet is large image data. Therefore, the next-generation computer memory that can perform fast storage fast storage and retrieval of large image data is required. As one of the promising candidates, the research is progressing actively on optical memory system using holography technique. High data density storage system can be realized by adopting three-dimensional such as photorefractive crystal as a recoding medium and various multiplexing(angular/spatial/phase code/wavelength) technique. Also this system has rapid access time by parallelism of laser beam. Therefore, this system is profitable for storage and retrieval of large image data(still image or moving image). Especially, digital holographic recoding and retrieval technique improve quality of retrieved image. Also, it has potential as memory that overcome I/O bottleneck of digital computer.
In this paper, angular multiplexing technique was described. Angular multiplexing is divided mechanical method and electrical method. Mechanical method using step motor is to prone system design. But it has not rapid access time and accurate repeatable setting
of reference beam. Electrical method using AOD offers rapid access time and accurate repeatable setting of reference beam.
Therefore, in this paper, digital holographic optical memory system was realized by recording and retrieval multiple binary encoded by Reed-Solomon code images in photorefractive crystal utilizing angurlar multiplexing technique using step motor and
AOD. Also, compression algorithm was adopted. Therefore, capability of digital holographic optical memory of high data density was proposed.