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Efosa Udinmwen

Project Silica rival plans to launch 500GB Proof-of-concept medium in 2026 — but questions remain about speed, durability, and cost

Optera optical storage archive.
  • Optera uses photoluminescence instead of lasers for long-term optical storage solutions
  • Spectral hole burning encodes data by manipulating nanoscale phosphor lattice imperfections
  • Multi-bit encoding allows several bits to be stored per physical location on the medium

Dr Nicolas Riesen at the University of South Australia is leading the development of an optical storage archive that records data through photoluminescence instead of physical laser etching.

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