Title :
Status of optical media
Author :
Davies, David H.
Author_Institution :
3M Co., Mountain View, CA, USA
fDate :
Feb. 29 1988-March 3 1988
Abstract :
The criticality of media to laser optical storage is detailed, and a discussion of the basic forms of media follows. The various options in substrates, construction, formatting, encoding, and active-layer selection are discussed in the light of major tradeoffs involved in practical selection prerecorded and recordable media ar included, with the latter encompassing both write-once and erasable varieties.<>
Keywords :
optical storage; active-layer selection; construction; encoding; erasable storage; formatting; laser optical storage; optical media; substrates; write once storage; Aluminum; Costs; Error correction codes; Glass; Image storage; Optical recording; Optical sensors; Plastics; Reflectivity; Servomechanisms;
Conference_Titel :
Compcon Spring '88. Thirty-Third IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Digest of Papers
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0828-5
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1988.4847
