Open AccessOptical parallel database management system for page oriented holographic memeories
Author(s) -
Jianlong Fu,
Marius P. Schamschula,
H. John Caulfield
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Danish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.5.000273
Subject(s) - electronics , computer science , holography , task (project management) , 3d optical data storage , holographic data storage , computer data storage , optics , computer hardware , electrical engineering , physics , engineering , systems engineering , operating system
Current data recall rates from page oriented holographic memories far exceed the ability of electronics toeven read or transmit the data. For database management, we must not only read those data but also query them-computationally, a far more complex task. That task is very severe for electronics. We show here the rudiments of an optical system that can do most of the query operations in parallel in optics, leaving the burden for electronics significantly less. Even here, electronics is the ultimate speed limiter. Nevertheless, we can query data far faster in our optical/electronic system than any purely electronic system.