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Holographic data storage is a next generation data storage device, which has high storage density, high data transfer rate and short access time. The device is very sensitive to disturbances due to its enormous storage density. In the disk type holographic data storage device deviation occurs successionally on the position of the data as the disk rotates. Therefore the spot where the probe beam is illuminated should directly be corrected in order to exactly retrieve the desired data. In this paper we suggest a method using an additional beam containing a servo pattern in order to detect the deviation of the media. We also propose a real time servo control method to compensate the affect of the unpredicted disturbance.

Recently photopolymer with disk type substrate is selected as a media of the holographic data storage system. Because shape of the media is a disk, a disk tilt must be occur when the media rotates. When disk tilt occurs the angle between the reference beam and the media is changed by the tilt, thus the data can not be recorded with a right angle or another data page is retrieved. The holographic data storage system is very weak to the tilt disturbance by the Bragg effect, therefore it is necessary to detect the disk tilt angle and compensate it. In this study, we measure the amount of the tilt error using external photo detector and compensate it by rotating the angle of galvano mirror with our own algorithm.

Holographic data storage is a strong candidate for the next generation archive storage device. However, disturbances such as external shock, vibration, flutter and eccentricity of the disk affects the holographic data storage device. Thus, tracking servo control is necessary in order to enhance the signal noise ratio and reduce the bit error rate and retrieve the data accurately. It is also inevitable to face track overlapping problem if there is no datum to apply servo control during the recording process. In this research, we suggest a method forming a holographic servo track to detect the tracking error signal continuously without using any additional laser diode or pre-format layer. The tracking servo controller is designed to improve the track following performance, and the validity of the proposed method is confirmed through experiments on our holographic data storage system.

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