Optical storage arrays: a perspective for future big data storage

Min Gu; Xiangping Li; Yaoyu Cao

doi:10.1038/lsa.2014.58

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Optical storage arrays: a perspective for future big data storage

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- Optical storage arrays: a perspective for future big data storage
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 3, Issue 2, (2014)
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  Centre for Micro-Photonics, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
- Author bio：
  
  Professor M Gu, Centre for Micro-Photonics, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia E-mail: mgu@swin.edu.au
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2014.58
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- Published：2014-06，
  
  Published Online：23 May 2014，
  
  Received：11 February 2014，
  
  Revised：15 March 2014，
  
  Accepted：23 March 2014
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Gu, M., Li, X. P. & Cao, Y. Y. Optical storage arrays: a perspective for future big data storage. Light: Science & Applications, 3, e177 (2014).
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Gu, M., Li, X. P. & Cao, Y. Y. Optical storage arrays: a perspective for future big data storage. Light: Science & Applications, 3, e177 (2014). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2014.58.

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Abstract

The advance of nanophotonics has provided a variety of avenues for light–matter interaction at the nanometer scale through the enriched mechanisms for physical and chemical reactions induced by nanometer-confined optical probes in nanocomposite materials. These emerging nanophotonic devices and materials have enabled researchers to develop disruptive methods of tremendously increasing the storage capacity of current optical memory. In this paper

we present a review of the recent advancements in nanophotonics-enabled optical storage techniques. Particularly

we offer our perspective of using them as optical storage arrays for next-generation exabyte data centers.

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big data centersoptical data storageoptical storage arrayssuper-resolution

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