Apparatus and method for accessing data on multilayered optical media

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• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Eric A. Swanson

1. Apparatus and methods for accessing data on a multilayered optical storage medium. The apparatus uses the time-of-flight of illumination directed to and reflected by the layers of the optical medium to access data stored on a desired layer of the medium. More particularly, alterations in illumination reflected from the desired layer are detected to access data stored on the layer. In accordance with embodiments of the invention utilizing interferometric techniques, the time-of-flight of a reference illumination is adjusted to cause interference of the reference illumination with the illumination reflected from the layer which contains the data to be accessed. Alternatively, ... (Read Full Article)

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