Signal processing for optical recording technologies

Project Information

SPORT

Grant agreement ID: 14460

Project closed

Start date 21 September 2005

End date 20 September 2009

Funded under

• Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Total cost No data

EU contribution € 386 907,00

Coordinated by

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND B.V.
Netherlands

Objective

Information technology plays an indispensable role in the quality-of-life of today's society. There is a continuous need for higher storage density in various applications, and with it, the markets of consumer electronics and PCs are expected to expand accordingly. Optical storage is the preferred technology when removable, random-access and high-density storage is required because of its low cost, exchangeability and robustness. The past twenty-five years have witnessed three generations of optical recording, with a stepwise increased capacity that is achieved by breakthroughs in the physics of the optical drive.

This project advocates another route in the run for increased capacity in optical storage: it pursues the way of advanced signal processing which, however, leads to a larger complexity in the electronics. Moore's law, stating that in IC-design the number of transistors doubles every couple of years, offers a golden opportunity in this respect since it in fact demands this increase in signal processing functionality. It is the objective of this project to investigate some potential breakthroughs in signal processing technology. A first aspect is the area of soft-decision bit-detection, which can retrieve much more information from the detected signal waveform.

This extra "soft" information has to be processed in conjunction with error-correction (de-) coding. A second aspect is related to signal processing for holographic data-storage where a book of many 2D-pages of information is recorded as a multitude of interference patterns. The read-out of the recorded data pages is affected by various noise sources, and by bit-blurring through full 3D "intersymbol-interference". This necessitates 3D signal processing, which is quite a new and challenging field of research. In these emerging technology areas, Philips Research needs to reinforce his level of expertise. The current project aims to bridge this knowledge-gap by recruiting two key-experts in these fields.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• natural sciences › biological sciences › genetics › DNA
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › signal processing
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › sensors
• social sciences › law
• natural sciences › mathematics › applied mathematics › mathematical model

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Keywords

• bit detection
• digital receiver communications
• holographic data storage
• iterative signal processing
• optical data storage
• optical recording

Programme(s)

• FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Topic(s)

• MOBILITY-1.3 - Marie Curie Host Fellowships - Transfer of knowledge (TOK)

Call for proposal

FP6-2002-MOBILITY-3
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Funding Scheme

TOK - Marie Curie actions-Transfer of Knowledge

Coordinator

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND B.V.

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Netherlands
• Total cost: No data