Optical Data Storage Topical Meeting and Tabletop Exhibit

May 20 – 23, 2007

The Benson Hotel
Portland, Oregon

Hotel Reservation (Deadline: April 23, 2007)
Pre-Registration (Deadline: April 26, 2007)

Cooperating Societies

BEST PAPER AWARD

MA4—Readout-Signal Amplification by Homodyne Detection Scheme, Hideharu Mikami¹, Takeshi Shimano¹, Hiromi Kudo¹, Jiro Hashizume², Harukazu Miyamoto¹; ¹Central Res. Lab, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan, ²Mechanical Engineering Res. Lab, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan. Optical signal amplification by using homodyne detection scheme was newly proposed and demonstrated experimentally. We estimated that the scheme improved S/N for an 8-layer and 3x-read-speed Blu-ray Disc by more than 20 dB.

(L-R) Kimihiro Saito, Tim Rausch, Hideharu Mikami, Takeshi Shimano, Bernard Bell

BEST STUDENT PAPER

WA2—A High-Intensity Bowtie Nano-Aperture Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser for Ultrahigh-Density Near-Field Optical Data Storage, Zhilong Rao, Lambertus Hesselink, James S. Harris; Stanford Univ., USA. We demonstrated a record-high-intensity bowtie nano-aperture vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with near-field spot size of 65 nm. The bowtie aperture VCSEL is very promising to realize ultradense near-field optical data storage.

(L-R) Kimihiro Saito, Tim Rausch, Lambertus Hesselink* (for Zhilong Rao), Takeshi Shimano, Bernard Bell

*Award for best student paper was presented to Zhilong Rao.
Lambertus Hesselink accepted this award on his student, Zhilong's behalf.