Speeding up machine learning by means of light
Scientists have developed a pioneering new approach that will rapidly speed up machine learning—using light.
Optics & Photonics
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News tagged with optical disc
Flatland light: Researchers create rewritable optical components for 2-D light waves
In 1884, a schoolmaster and theologian named Edwin Abbott wrote a novella called Flatland, which tells the story of a world populated by sentient two-dimensional shapes. While intended as a satire of rigid Victorian social ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 6, 2019
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Panasonic and Facebook develop optical disc-based data archive system for data centers
Panasonic Corporation today announced that it has developed Freeze-Ray, an optical disc-based data archive system in collaboration with Facebook. By collaborating with Facebook, Panasonic was able to design Freeze-Ray to ...
Hardware
Jan 13, 2016
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"Archival Disc" standard for professional-use next-generation optical discs
Sony and Panasonic today announced that they have formulated "Archival Disc", a new standard for professional-use, next-generation optical discs, with the objective of expanding the market for long-term digital data storage*.
Hardware
Mar 10, 2014
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Fujifilm will introduce 1TB optical disc in 2015
(Phys.org)—Fujifilm is working on a new recording method for optical discs. It has developed the new method through the use of two-photon absorption in order to generate heat, and the report in TechOn! notes that this two-photon ...
On track for terabyte discs: Making computer data storage cheaper, easier
Businesses and consumers may soon have a simple, cheaper way to store large amounts of digital data. Case Western Reserve University researchers have developed technology aimed at making an optical disc that holds 1 to 2 ...
Hardware
Oct 9, 2012
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Sony moves industry toward the creation of new mass-storage optical disc archive solutions
Sony Corporation today announced that it will be commercializing a next-generation optical disc archive storage system. Sony will also organize an Optical Disc Archive Advisory Group to promote the adoption of this new storage ...
Hardware
Apr 16, 2012
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Team uses high-tech optical technique to pull sound from 125 year old recordings
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have succeeded in using 3D optical scanning technology to effectively lift the voices from 125 year old recordings created by researchers working in Alexander ...
GE announces 500 GB holographic disc writer that runs at Blue-Ray speed
(PhysOrg.com) -- GE's technology research group has announced the development of an optical disc writer capable of writing 500 GB of data onto a disc the same physical size as a DVD, at roughly the same speed as Blue Ray ...
Sharp's New Semiconductor Laser for Triple- and Quadruple- Layer Blu-ray Discs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sharp Corporation has announced the development of a new 500 mW semiconductor laser for triple- and quadruple- layer Blu-ray discs.
