How to Fit 1,000 Terabytes Onto a DVD

[mr soft]

Storing data on conventional DVDs and Blu-Ray disk involves a single laser that burns a mark into the disk’s surfacing, changing its chemistry. The mark represents a 1 or 0, which is the basic binary language of all computer data. But because the marks can’t be smaller than a half the wavelength of the laser beam, there is a limit, to how many marks can be burned into the surface of a disk.

The Swinburne team, led by optoelectronics professor Min Gu, did something different. They used two lasers instead of one.

Source:

http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/how-1000-terabytes-onto-dvd-130620.htm

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Too bad none of the "big players" appears to be interested in developing a new optical disc format, so this will probably never become a product...