Holographic storage device having an adjustment mechanism for a reference beam
View Patent ↗A monocular holographic storage device or system to provide for compact recording and/or reading of data pages in a holographic storage medium. Also provided are methods for carrying out such data storage and/or data recovery using a monocular holographic storage device or system. Further provided are articles including holographic storage media for recording or for reading recorded data using such devices or systems.
1. A holographic storage device or system comprising:
a reference beam source for generating a reference beam;
a data beam source for generating a data beam;
an objective lens through which the data beam and reference beam pass prior to entering a holographic storage medium; and
a reference beam lens through which the reference beam passes; and
a reference beam lens mover for moving the reference beam lens to thereby change an angle of the reference beam relative to the holographic storage medium, wherein the reference beam and data beam, after passing through the objective lens, interfere to record one or more data pages in the holographic storage medium.
2. The holographic storage device or system of claim 1 , wherein the reference beam source can generate a reconstruction beam for recovering the one or more data pages recorded in the holographic storage medium.
3. The holographic storage device or system of claim 1 , wherein reference beam source and the data beam source comprises a polarizing beam splitter through which a collimated light beam passes to generate the reference beam and the data beam.
4. The holographic storage device or system of claim 1 , further comprising a spatial light modulator positioned between the reference beam lens and the objective lens.
5. The holographic storage device or system of claim 1 , wherein the objective lens has a numerical aperture of at least about 0.65.
6. The holographic storage device or system of claim 5 , wherein the objective lens has a numerical aperture size of at least about 0.85.
7. The holographic storage device or system of claim 1 , which further comprises a mirror positioned between the reference beam lens and the objective lens which can be rotated or pivoted to change at what point the reference beam passes through the reference beam lens.
8. A method comprising the following steps:
(a) transmitting a reference beam through a reference beam lens;
(b) recording one or more data pages in a holographic storage medium by interfering the reference beam and a data beam after the reference beam and the data beam have passed through an objective lens; and
(c) moving the reference beam lens relative to the objective lens to thereby change an angle of incidence of the reference beam on the holographic storage medium.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein step (a) comprises angle-polytopic multiplexing a plurality of data pages into the holographic storage medium.
10. The method of claim 8 , further comprising the following step:
(d) reading selected data pages of the recorded one or more data pages using phase conjugate readout.
11. The method of claim 8 , wherein step (c) comprises moving the reference beam lens orthogonally to an optical axis of the reference beam.
12. The method of claim 8 , wherein step (c) comprises moving the reference beam lens parallel to an optical axis of the reference beam to thereby generate a diverging or converging reference beam.
13. The method of claim 8 , wherein step (c) comprises compensating for tilt of the holographic storage medium.
14. The method of claim 8 , further comprising the following step:
(e) adjusting dithering of the reference beam lens to compensate for temperature changes in the holographic storage medium.
15. The method of claim 8 , further comprising the following step:
(f) adjusting wavelength of the reference beam or data beam to compensate for temperature changes in the holographic storage medium.