Volume holographic data storage system using a beam pattern from a tapered optical fiber

摘要

A volume holographic data storage(VHDS) system incorporates therein a tapered optical fiber for generating a speckle beam pattern from the tapered optical fiber for increasing the amount of holograms to be stored into a photorefractive crystal. The VHDS system includes a light source for generating a coherent light beam, a beam splitter for splitting the coherent light beam into a reference and a signal beams, a storage medium for storing the multiple holograms thereinto, a mirror for directing the signal beam to the storage medium, a coupler for coupling the reference beam to the tapered optical fiber, wherein one end of the tapered optical fiber has a tapered structure to give perturbation in the form of a speckle pattern to the reference beam from the tapered optical fiber and the reference beam containing the speckle pattern travels to the storage medium after being transmitted through the tapered structure, thereby the speckle pattern reference beam interfering with the signal beam in the storage medium.