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Holographic memories

Knight, 1975

Document ID
3489225370441485873
Author
Knight G
Publication year
Publication venue
Optical Engineering

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Recent work in holographic memories is reviewed. Erasable, digital holographic stores have major remaining problem areas of increasing the memory capacity and developing a good storage material. The modular memory concept and the superposition of holograms in a …
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