High Performance Optical Disc for Future Telemetry Applications

Abstract

As sensor bandwidths increase and the amount of information gathered increases, higher capacity storage devices will be required as well as increased capture/transmission/reproduce data rates. Both collection/capture sites (with more sensors and wider bandwidths) and link receive/distribution sites will need to be upgraded to accommodate high transmission rates, provide rate matching for capture/dissemination/processing and provide higher capacity storage. These trends and recorder solutions are forecast as natural evolution of the state-of-the-art. Extended performance (high data rate/high capacity) tape recorders will be discussed as applicable to satellite-to-ground communication, space platform experimental data gathering, reconnaissance, ASW sonar, radar and data processing systems.