January 31, 2003 Semi Annual Report

Summary Reports

Characterization Facility for Optical Storage Media and Systems
M. Mansuripur, P. Khulbe, P. Polynkin, M. S. Giridhar, T. Liu, K. B. Seong,E. de la Rosa, J. K. Erwin and W. Bletscher

Dynamic Testbed Laboratory and Micro-optics
T. D. Milster, M. Bailey, N. Beaudry, W. Bletscher, J. Butz, T. Y. Choi, J. Curtis, R. Early, J. K. Erwin, B. Owens, S. K. Park. F. H. Wu and Y. Zhang

ML-RLL Recording
D. Howe and K.(Angus) Wu

FDTD Modeling – Near Field Probes, Extremely Short External Cavity (ESEC) Diode Lasers & Super-Rens
J. Olkkonen, K. Kataja, J. Aikko and D. Howe

Photonic Devices for Storage Area Networks
A. Kost, N. Eradat, K. Rausch, N. Yurt, X. Sun, C.-H. Chen, A. Abdi, G. Erik, D. Geraghty and S. Honkanen

Performance of Cooperating Networked Storage Systems
T. Hurst, HP Visiting Researcher/Adjunct Professor, E. de la Rosa, U of A Doctoral Student and J. Hartman, UA Computer Science Dept. Associate

APPENDICES

Media Characterization Methods for Optical Data Storage
M. Mansuripur, A. Euteneur, D. Fernandez and B. Medower

Information Storage and Retrieval Using Macromolecules as Storage Media
M. Mansuripur, P. K. Khulbe, S. M. Kuebler, J. W. Perry, M. S. Giridhar and N. Peyghambarian

Interaction of Light
M. Mansuripur, A. R. Zakharian and J. V. Moloney

How CD and DVD Players Work
M. Mansuripur

Optical Nonlinearity of Silver Oxide Super Resolution Structure as a Function of Oxygen Content
F.H. Wu, U. Rambabu, T. D. Milster, H.-P.D. Shieh

Temperature Analysis in MAMMOS Media
S.-Ki Park and T. D. Milster

A Novel Method for Tracking in Homogeneous Volumetric Media
T. Miller, J. Butz and T. D. Milster

Graphical User Interface for U of A FDTD Code
R. Early, T. Milster and J. Olkkonen

Physical Optics Simulations in Matlab for High-Performance Systems
T. D. Milster

Optical Data Storage for Digital Video
T. D. Milster

Optical Data Storage
T. D. Milster

Recording of Multi-Level Run-Length-Limited (ML-RLL) Modulation Signals on Phase-Change Optical Discs
K. Wu, D. Howe and S.-Y. Tsai

Study of High Throughput aperture for Near Field Optical Data Storage
J. Olkkonen, K. Kataja, J. Aikio and D. G. Howe