Military optical memory storage

Author

Lovett, Allan ; Lyells, Ron

Author_Institution

Defense Avionics Syst. Div., Honeywell Inc., Albuquerque, NM, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

20-24 May 1991

Firstpage

297

Abstract

It is pointed out that, in the 1980s, many companies erroneously believed that it was possible to modify a commercial optical drive and media design for use in the military environment. Honeywell has successfully developed a militarized 300-Mbyte write-once read-many (WORM) optical drive, took it into full production, and is applying this flight-proven knowledge to rewritable magnetooptic (MO) technology. The authors describe the lessons learned and how those lessons apply to current and future military optical drive developments

Keywords

aerospace computing; aircraft instrumentation; laser beam applications; magneto-optical recording; military computing; military equipment; optical disc storage; 300 MByte; WORM; flashlight; laser thermal control; military avionics; military optical drive; optical disc storage; optical head; rewritable magnetooptic technology; write-once read-many; Aerospace electronics; Glass; Magnetooptic devices; Military aircraft; Moisture; Optical design; Optical distortion; Optical recording; Optical refraction; Production;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1991. NAECON 1991., Proceedings of the IEEE 1991 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0085-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1991.165762

Filename

165762