Access Optical Networks, Inc.

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Digital Software Corporation

Glenn A Gladney

Paul R Prucnal

Marvin Hutt

Gardy Cadet

Moncef B Tayahi

Milton Soto

A method and device for re-writing data on a holographic storage device is disclosed. First and second electro-optic modulators may phase shift the reference and data beams used to store data on the photorefractive crystal. When the reference beam is shifted 180&#xb0; out of phase with respect to the data beam, the photorefractive crystal is erased.

Method and system for re-writing with a holographic storage medium

A directly modulated spatial light modulator (DM-SLM) may be formed using a semiconductor optical amplifier. The directly modulated spatial light modulator may also be formed with a vertical cavity surface emitting laser having an output side; and an anti-reflection coating located on the output side.

Directly modulated spatial light modulator

A switching array is disclosed that has a plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers having phase shifting mirrors. The switching array may be used for providing a device and system that has optical signal processing of sensing, a serialization and protocol interface, that has increased gray scale levels and sensitivities, pixel polarization detection, higher speed, lower power requirements and provides optical or electrical output for holographic optical storage to a bus or network.

Optical sensor array

A method and system for bulk erasing in a holographic storage system is disclosed. The method may involve illuminating the entire volume storage region of a photorefractive crystal with a laser to achieve bulk erasure, or may involve selective erasure of a portion of a single written page. For bulk erasure of the entire photorefractive crystal the use of a separate laser or an incoherent light source is used.

Method and apparatus for bulk erasure in a holographic storage system

Methods and arrangements are disclosed herein for optically storing data from a serial optical bit stream. As each bit of the optical stream is received it is applied to an optical storage medium e.g., lithium niobate, along with a reference beam. The angle of the reference beam is changed in synchronism with the received optical bits to create identifiable interference patterns for each bit.

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Manalapan, NJ, United States of America

Glenn A Gladney