optical drives

  • 1Optical disc drive — A CD/DVD ROM Drive A Blu ray (BD RE DL) writer tray in a Sony Vaio E series laptop …

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  • 2optical drive —    A high capacity disk storage device that uses a laser to read and write information.    Because optical drives are relatively slow, they are used for archiving information and for other applications for which high access speed is not critical …

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  • 3Optical disc recording technologies — Optical discs Optical disc Optical disc drive Optical disc authoring Authoring software Recording technologies Recording modes Packet writing Optical media types …

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  • 4Optical disc — Optical media redirects here. For transmission media for light, see Medium (optics). The optical lens of a compact disc drive. In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc is a flat, usually circular disc which encodes… …

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  • 5Optical heterodyne detection — is an important special case of heterodyne detection. In heterodyne detection, a signal of interest at some frequency is non linearly mixed with a reference local oscillator (LO) that is set at a close by frequency. The desired outcome is the… …

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  • 6Optical disc authoring — Optical discs Optical disc Optical disc drive Optical disc authoring Authoring software Recording technologies Recording modes Packet writing Optical media types …

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  • 7Optical storage — is a term from engineering referring to the storage of data on an optically readable medium. Data is recorded by making marks in a pattern that can be read back with the aid of light, usually a beam of laser light precisely focused on a spinning… …

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  • 8Optical disc recording modes — Optical discs Optical disc Optical disc drive Optical disc authoring Authoring software Recording technologies Recording modes Packet writing Optical media types …

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  • 9Optical jukebox — An optical jukebox is a robotic data storage device that can automatically load and unload optical discs, such as Compact Disc, DVD, Ultra Density Optical or Blu ray disc and can provide terabytes (TB) and petabytes (PB) of tertiary storage. The… …

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  • 10Optical Storage Technology Association — The OSTA s website logo The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) is an international trade association which promotes the use of recordable optical technologies and products, and most notably it is responsible for the creation and… …

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