Biased micromechanical cantilever arrays as optical image memory

Daniela Dragoman; Mircea Dragoman

doi:10.1364/ao.42.001515

Biased micromechanical cantilever arrays as optical image memory

Appl Opt. 2003 Mar 10;42(8):1515-9. doi: 10.1364/ao.42.001515.

Authors

Daniela Dragoman¹, Mircea Dragoman

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physics, University of Bucharest, PO Box MG-11, 76900 Bucharest, Romania. danieladragoman@yahoo.com

PMID: 12645988
DOI: 10.1364/ao.42.001515

Abstract

We show that an array of optically actuated biased cantilevers can work as an optical data storage, able to encode data stored as arrays of optical pixels (images). Each of these optical pixels can, in addition, have a predetermined pixel depth, expressed as a certain number of gray levels. This new optical memory is able to work at a data rate of approximately 7 GB/s for an image with 128 x 128 pixels.