Research challenges and opportunities for optical disk storage

Summary form only given. Optical disk drives and media have come into their own in the last several years as a significant and growing segment of the information storage industry. The most interesting research challenges and opportunities for optical disk storage, however, lie in the write-once and rewritable versions of the technology. This talk will address the relative advantages and difficulties of the new approaches and will position them in the context of other ongoing trends to move the technology to shorter wavelengths and to higher performance. The outcome of which of that new concepts will succeed in being adopted for mainstream products in the future role of optical disk systems.