Like with much of physical media, the onslaught against optical media is ongoing. In the latest hit against physical media ...

New optical storage archiving systems promise 1PB optical cartridges by the 2030’s. Optical storage could be a significant ...

After UV curing, the disk is positioned directly under ... for integration into test equipment for blue-laser-based disks. The test drive's optical, mechanical and electronic specifications ...

As New Scientist explained on Wednesday, a diamond optical disc can store the same amount ... The researchers placed these shards in front of a laser that fired ultrafast pulses of light at ...

An earlier removable, rewritable optical disk that also used magnetic technology ... Refurbished drives and media are available from MaxOptix.com. A laser heats the optical bit to the Curie ...

A high-power ytterbium thin-disk laser drives an optical parametric oscillator to generate high-power, stable pulses in the short-wave infrared spectral range. This allows researchers to detect and ...

In two-photon 3D optical data storage, writing is performed by short laser pulses at a wavelength ... However, using a cube instead of a disk as the recording medium might successfully accommodate ...

A team of engineers at the University of Science and Technology of China has developed a new way to code data onto a diamond ...

CD/DVD drives are able to: read all CD and DVD formats write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW Data is written to and read from the discs using a laser.

A high-power ytterbium thin-disk laser drives an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) to generate high-power, stable pulses in the short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectral range. This allows researchers ...