Hunter S, Kiamilev F, Esener S, Parthenopoulos D A, Rentzepis P M
Appl Opt. 1990 May 10;29(14):2058-66. doi: 10.1364/AO.29.002058.
The advent of optoelectronic computers and highly parallel electronic processors has brought about a need for storage systems with enormous memory capacity and memory bandwidth. These demands cannot be met with current memory technologies (i.e., semiconductor, magnetic, or optical disk) without having the memory system completely dominate the processors in terms of the overall cost, power consumption, volume, and weight. As a solution, we propose an optical volume memory based on the two-photon effect which allows for high density and parallel access. In addition, the two-photon 3-D memory system has the advantages of having high capacity and throughput which may overcome the disadvantages of current memories.
光电子计算机和高度并行电子处理器的出现，带来了对具有巨大存储容量和存储带宽的存储系统的需求。如果不使存储系统在总成本、功耗、体积和重量方面完全压倒处理器，当前的存储技术（即半导体、磁性或光盘）就无法满足这些需求。作为一种解决方案，我们提出了一种基于双光子效应的光学体存储器，它允许高密度和并行访问。此外，双光子三维存储系统具有高容量和高吞吐量的优点，这可能克服当前存储器的缺点。
