Optical storage and even DNA storage could be a significant contender for the digital archive market in the coming decades.

Glass nanostructures etched using high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses promise to keep vast quantities of data safe for billions of years, describe Peter Kazansky, Ausra Cerkauskaite and Rokas ...

Holographic data storage represents a transformative approach for recording information volumetrically by utilising the interference patterns of coherent light. In contrast to conventional ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its ...

Cerabyte, founded in 2022 in Munich, Germany and recently opened a Silicon Valley headquarters. It has raised $10M in seed funding to date, announced availability of protypes of its ceramic on glass ...

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(Nanowerk News) As our digital world generates massive amounts of data — more than 2 quintillion bytes of new content each day — yesterday’s storage technologies are quickly reaching their limits.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Light carries information in its wavelength, wavevector direction, polarization, and the way it bends through materials. Until now, optical data storage has typically used just ...

This new type of optical memory unit,called a programmable photonic latch, is fast and scalable. It could offer a high-speed silicon photonics solution for volatile memory. WASHINGTON — Researchers ...

Why it matters: In the new digital age, CDs and DVDs have become relics, replaced by the popularity of streaming and cloud storage. However, scientists think they may have found a way to bring optical ...