[OPTICAL REVIEW Vol. 3, No. 6A (1996) 385-387]

Implementation of a Volume Holographic Database System

Bradley J. GOERTZEN, Keith G. RICHLING and Pericles A. MITKAS

Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center and Department of Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA

(Received May 9, 1996; Accepted July 3, 1996)

We present the implementation of a volume holographic database system capable of storing records of binary data as pages and performing a series of database operations by searching the memory in either address-based or associative mode.

Key words : optical storage, holographic memories, database systems, associative memories

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