Hi Mslynx
I was very serious concerning the OCMC, because the IBM R&D is on it.
Those crystals are light-active through wave frequency filtering and phase sensitive quantum-bits called “qubits”. Each quibit is a unit of memory, and each cube contains trillions of them. The idea is that the state of a qubit may be altered by a specific wavelength when a LASER beam phase is locked orthogonally with another two (x,y,z) at this particular qubit. To read the status of this qubit was and perhaps still is the problem because extremely precise scanners target a quibit by an (x,y) coordinate address controlled externally by the simultaneous z-scan. The z-axis beam is allowed to pass or not pass depending on the state of the solid crystal at that particular qubit being scanned.
Mechanical mirror scanners that control LASER beams by controlling the tilt have failed. A gated matrix had some merits but it reduced the qubit resolution drastically.
A LASER beam resembles a line and when scanned in a direction resembles a plane but when scanned in all directions resemble a cone. The cube must be within the intersection region of three orthogonal cones.
Another problem was the refractive index mathematics involved during a scan.
Ultimate precision is not required as much as targeting repeatability.
So they do have some serious problems but eventually each problem shall be solved in time.
This reality sounds like fiction but it is a convincing reality as far as I was informed on the science-physics news groups.
When such unlimited memory becomes available, the applications to manipulate it shall begin to be considered commercially and all sorts of applications shall follow.
Yes it is quite a future from now but neither it is far nor fiction.
Kind regards.
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