Abstract:Philips Research has been working on improvements of optical disc storage technology for three decades. In this period, optical discs have become the technology of choice for storing and sharing of data on removable media. In 30 years we have made an improvement of about 2 orders of magnitude in both data rate and storage density. The new Blu-ray Disc (BD) optical storage system offers 25 GB on a single layer, with 36 Mbps base data rate. Philips has made an optical pick-up unit with a single lens and a single… Show more
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