A picture is worth a thousand—no, hundreds of thousands—of bits of information. If that picture can be optically stored and retrieved, with the data bits moving in and out in parallel, one has a very fast way to transfer information. So goes one of the motivations for research on optical holography: One can record data as a pattern of 0's and 1's on a page and rapidly store an image of that page.
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© 1995 American Institute of Physics.
1995
American Institute of Physics
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