Holographic storage disk and holographic storage system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9466326-B2
Application number	US-201615011627-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 31, 2016
Priority date	Jan 30, 2015
Publication date	Oct 11, 2016
Grant date	Oct 11, 2016

Abstract

A holographic storage disk includes a reflective layer, a storage layer, and quarter-wave plate. A storage layer is disposed on the reflective layer and includes a reflection-structure layer and photosensitive units. The reflection-structure layer has cavities, in which the reflection-structure layer is grid-shaped. The cavities penetrate the reflection-structure layer. The photosensitive units are disposed in the cavities. The quarter-wave plate is disposed between the reflective layer and the photosensitive units.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A holographic storage disk, comprising:
a reflective layer;
a storage layer disposed on the reflective layer and comprising:
a reflection-structure layer having a plurality of cavities, wherein the reflection-structure layer is grid-shaped, and the cavities penetrate the reflection-structure layer; and
a plurality of photosensitive units disposed in the cavities; and

a quarter-wave plate disposed between the reflective layer and the photosensitive units.

2. The holographic storage disk of claim 1 , the quarter-wave plate is present between the reflective layer and the reflection-structure layer.

3. The holographic storage disk of claim 1 , wherein the quarter-wave plate is present in the cavities of the reflection-structure layer.

4. The holographic storage disk of claim 1 , further comprising an azo-dye layer disposed between the quarter-wave plate and the photosensitive units, wherein the azo-dye layer is opposite to the reflective layer.

5. The holographic storage disk of claim 1 , further comprising a liquid-crystal layer and an orientation layer which are disposed between the quarter-wave plate and the photosensitive units, wherein the liquid-crystal layer is present between the orientation layer and the quarter-wave plate.

6. The holographic storage disk of claim 5 , wherein a shape of the orientation layer viewed in a direction normal to the orientation layer is circular, and the orientation layer has orientation directions arranged as concentric circles to allow at least one liquid crystal in the liquid-crystal layer to be arranged along at least one tangent direction of the concentric circles.

7. The holographic storage disk of claim 5 , wherein the liquid-crystal layer comprises at least one of a thermotropic liquid crystal polymer and a lyotropic liquid crystal polymer.

8. A holographic storage system, comprising:
a holographic storage disk comprising a storage layer, wherein the storage layer comprises:
a reflection-structure layer having a plurality of cavities, wherein the reflection-structure layer is grid-shaped, and the cavities penetrate the reflection-structure layer; and
a plurality of photosensitive units disposed in the cavities; and

a holographic light-source module configured to provide a signal light beam and a reference light beam;
a spatial light modulator (SLM) configured to receive the signal light beam and the reference light beam provided by the holographic light-source module and to modulate the signal light beam and the reference light beam;
a light-splitting module;
an object lens, wherein the signal light beam and the reference light beam modulated by the SLM are propagated toward the holographic storage disk via the light-splitting module and the object lens;
a receiver configured to receive the reference light beam reflected form the holographic storage disk; and
a filter disposed in an optical path of the reference light beam, wherein the filter is grid-shaped, and each of the grids of the filter and each of the grids of the reflection-structure layer have the same shape.

9. The holographic storage system of claim 8 , wherein the filter is made of a light absorbing material.

10. The holographic storage system of claim 8 , wherein the filter is disposed at a position corresponding to an optical conjugate position of the holographic storage disk facing a surface of the object lens.

11. The holographic storage system of claim 8 , further comprising an actuator connected to the filter.

12. The holographic storage system of claim 8 , wherein the filter is disposed at a position which is correspondingly present between the SLM and the objective lens in the optical path of the reference light beam.

13. The holographic storage system of claim 8 , wherein the filter is disposed at a position which is correspondingly present between the holographic storage disk and the receiver in the optical path of the reference light beam.

14. The holographic storage system of claim 8 , wherein an incident surface of the reference light beam passing through the filter has a block zone, the boundary of the block zone corresponds to the grid-shape of the reflection-structure layer, and the position of the filter makes an area of the block zone be in a range from one half to double of the area of the grid-shape of the reflection-structure layer.

15. The holographic storage system of claim 8 , wherein the holographic storage disk further comprises a first substrate and a second substrate, the storage layer is present between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate and the object lens are present at the same side of the storage layer, and each of the first substrate and the second substrate is a transparent substrate.

16. The holographic storage system of claim 8 , wherein the holographic storage disk further comprises a first substrate and a second substrate, the storage layer is present between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate and the object lens are present at the same side of the storage layer, wherein the first substrate is a transparent substrate, and the second substrate is a reflective substrate.

17. A holographic storage system, comprising:
a holographic storage disk comprising a storage layer, wherein the storage layer comprises:
a reflection-structure layer having a plurality of cavities, wherein the reflection-structure layer is grid-shaped, and the cavities penetrate the reflection-structure layer, and
a plurality of photosensitive units disposed in the cavities; and

a holographic light-source module configured to provide a signal light beam and a reference light beam;
a spatial light modulator (SLM) configured to receive the signal light beam and the reference light beam provided by the holographic light-source module and to modulate the signal light beam and the reference light beam, wherein the SLM has a block pattern configured to block the modulated reference light beam to allow an incident surface of the modulated reference light beam to be grid-shaped, and each of the grids of the reference light beam and each of the grids of the reflection-structure layer have the same shape;
a light-splitting module; and
an object lens, wherein the signal light beam and the reference light beam modulated by the SLM are propagated toward the holographic storage disk via the light-splitting module and the object lens.

18. The holographic storage system of claim 17 , wherein the reference light beam is modulated to have a block zone, the boundary of the block zone is corresponding to the grid-shape of the reflection-structure layer, and the position of the SLM makes an area of the block zone be in a range from one half to double of the area of the grid-shape of the reflection-structure layer.

19. The holographic storage system of claim 17 , wherein the holographic storage disk further comprises a first substrate and a second substrate, the storage layer is present between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate and the object lens are present at the same side of the storage layer, and each of the first substrate and the second substrate is a transparent substrate.

20. The holographic storage system of claim 17 , wherein the holographic storage disk further comprises a first substrate and a second substrate, the storage layer is present between the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate and the object lens are present at the same side of the storage layer, whe

Assignees

• Univ Nat Central

Inventors

• Yu Yeh-Wei
• Sun Ching-Cherng

Classifications

• G11B7/24044 Primary

  for storing optical interference patterns, e.g. holograms; for storing data in three dimensions [3D], e.g. volume storage (G11B7/24038 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G11B2007/240025

  for storing optical interference patterns, e.g. holograms · CPC title

• G11B7/24085 Primary

  Pits · CPC title

• G11B7/0065

  Recording, reproducing or erasing by using optical interference patterns, e.g. holograms · CPC title