Inventors:
Pingfan Peter Wu - Woodbury MN, US
Xiaolei Shi - Niskayuna NY, US
Zhiyuan Ren - Malta NY, US
Brian Lee Lawrence - Niskayuna NY, US
John Erik Hershey - Ballston Lake NY, US
Kenneth Brakeley Welles - Scotia NY, US
John Anderson Fergus Ross - Niskayuna NY, US
Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov - Ballston Lake NY, US
Assignee:
General Electric Company - Schenectady NY
International Classification:
G03H 1/02
US Classification:
430 1, 430 2, 359 3, 359 25, 369103
Abstract:
A data storage device including: a plastic substrate having a plurality of data volumes arranged along tracks in a plurality of stacked layers; a plurality of micro-holograms each contained in a corresponding one of the data volumes; a plurality of complementary volumes, each corresponding to and being substantially aligned with one of the data volumes; a plurality of micro-holograms each contained in a corresponding one of the complementary volumes; wherein, the presence or absence of a micro-hologram in each of the data volumes is indicative of a corresponding portion of data stored; and, the ones of the complementary volumes corresponding to the ones of the data volumes containing a micro-hologram do not contain a micro-hologram; and the ones of the complementary volumes corresponding to the ones of the data volumes not containing a micro-hologram contain a micro-hologram.