FLUORESCENT MULILAYER DISC”“荧光多层盘”.docVIP

1. INTRODUCTION Compact discs were a revolutionary product at its time and influenced many spheres of human activity. People started recording music of high quality, which didnt get worse with the time as it happens to be on tape. As soon as CDs appeared in computer industry they immediately became an undoubted helper both for users and for programmers. The latter were able to increase volume of their program products by adding video and audio elements etc. Later discs were used for digital video (VideoCD). But technologies are progressing. Data are growing faster and faster. A usual CD is far not enough (640 MBytes). So, there appeared DVD technology. Of course we are happy with those 17 GBytes that can be kept on one DVD disc, but this is a limiting point. So we need a completely new method of storing information on portable data medium. And at last, the company Constellation 3D demonstrates a new format: FMD (Fluorescent Multilayer Disk), which can soon become a leader Constellation 3Ds technology implements the concept of the volumetric storage of information. Data is recorded on multiple layers located inside a disc or a card, as opposed to the single layer method available in compact discs, and double layer method available in DVD’s. The recording, reading and storing of the information is accomplished through the use of fluorescent materials embedded in pits and grooves in each of the layers. The fluorescent material emits radiation when excited by an external light source. The information is then decoded as modulations of the intensity and color of the emitted radiation. 2. OPTICAL STORAGE MEDIA USED TODAY 2.1. CD-ROM The CD-ROM standard was established in 1984 when the CD-audio standard was modified to give PCs access to the technology. CD-ROM drives and discs quickly evolved into a low-cost digital storage option because of the established CD-audio industry. Data bits are permanently stored on a CD in the form of physically molded pits in the surface o