Optical storage and even DNA storage could be a significant contender for the digital archive market in the coming decades.

After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.… The 5D Memory Crystal stores data by using tiny voxels – 3D pixels – in fused silica glass, ...

NEWARK, Del., Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- SPhotonix, a fast growing deep tech start-up, has announced the successful completion of their over-subscribed $4.5 million pre-seed round led by Creator ...

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Optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) attract widespread attention and play an important role in optical data storage, optical communications, quantum information processing, ...

Physicists have developed a technique with the potential to enhance optical data storage capacity in diamonds. This is possible by multiplexing the storage in the spectral domain. Physicists at The ...

Sphotonix’s 5D optical storage media has appeared on the latest installment of Mission Impossible A rare feat for a new product, its appearance is central to the movie plot Like Microsoft Silica, it ...

SPhotonix, the US-headquartered startup company looking to commercialize “5D” or “Superman” ultra-stable optical data storage technology originally developed at the University of Southampton in the UK ...

The scientists increased the capacity by leaps and bounds using an optical disc with a 3D planar recording architecture, which uses a highly transparent, uniform photoresist film doped with ...