Specifically, the researchers hope to revive the fortunes of optical storage with the help of a mix of rare earth elements and quantum defects. To address the data storage crunch, researchers are ...

Multi-level memory storage In the paper, the researchers showed that they could use their approach to reliably encode data on ... processing techniques to integrate multiple optical memory cells.

We are entering an age of data explosion. The volume of digital information generated from the internet and from portable and high-definition video devices has doubled every two years since 2000 ...

Pro Forget about Blu-ray, Fluo-ray discs may well be the future of optical data storage with 10TB capacities ... With conventional storage methods inevitably running into hurdles down the line ...

As New Scientist explained on Wednesday, a diamond optical disc can store the same ... “While contemporary data storage methods… address the current need for terabyte capacity, these solutions ...

The rapidly developing digital age demands greater processing power, data storage ... optical information processing as a great leap forward. These optical technologies use light based techniques ...

We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks. A separate advance with in data encoding could triple storage to 2.1 Petabytes ...

Yuhao Lei at the University of Southampton, UK, and his colleagues call the method five-dimensional (5D) optical data storage because it uses two optical dimensions, based on the polarisation and ...

All 350 scheduled episodes of The Simpsons, totalling 8,080 minutes of film, could be easily stored on the new disk, dubbed MODS - for Multiplexed Optical Data Storage - by the Imperial College team.