Homodyne detection readout for bit-oriented holographic memories
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Published on: July 5, 2016
Guillaume Maire1, Gilles Pauliat, Gérald Roosen
1Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et de l'Université Paris Sud, Centre Scientifique d'Orsay, France.
Abstract:
Homodyne detection is proposed to increase the readout signal of bit-oriented holographic memories. It can be easily implemented on present memory architectures by making the diffracted signal interfere with a reflection of the reading beam. The large resulting increase of the readout signal can be used to enhance the data transfer rate. A first experimental demonstration of such a readout procedure is presented.
