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• Optical storage — is a term from engineering referring to the storage of data on an optically readable medium. Data is recorded by making marks in a pattern that can be read back with the aid of light, usually a beam of laser light precisely focused on a spinning… …   Wikipedia

• Optical Express — Group Type Private Industry Healthcare Founded 1991 Founder(s) David Moulsdale Headqu …   Wikipedia

• Optical disc — Optical media redirects here. For transmission media for light, see Medium (optics). The optical lens of a compact disc drive. In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc is a flat, usually circular disc which encodes… …   Wikipedia

• Optical power meter — in use An optical power meter (OPM) is a device used to measure the power in an optical signal. The term usually refers to a device for testing average power in fiber optic systems. Other general purpose light power measuring devices are usually… …   Wikipedia

• Optical character recognition — Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into… …   Wikipedia

• optical disc — UK US (US also optical disk) noun [C] IT ► a computer disc that is read by a laser (= a narrow beam of light). It can store sound, video, or computer data and programs: »The system is intended for use with next generation optical discs, such as… …   Financial and business terms

• optical pen — UK US noun [countable] [singular optical pen plural optical pens] computing a small piece of electronic equipment that you move across a printed page in order to store the words either in its own memory or in your computer …   Useful english dictionary

• optical pen — optical ,pen noun count COMPUTING a small piece of electronic equipment that you move across a printed page in order to store the words either in its own memory or in your computer …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Optical jukebox — An optical jukebox is a robotic data storage device that can automatically load and unload optical discs, such as Compact Disc, DVD, Ultra Density Optical or Blu ray disc and can provide terabytes (TB) and petabytes (PB) of tertiary storage. The… …   Wikipedia

• Optical disc packaging — Main article: Optical disc Optical disc packaging is the packaging that accompanies CDs, DVDs, and other formats of optical media. Most packaging is rigid or semi rigid and designed to protect the media from scratches and other types of exposure… …   Wikipedia

• Optical computer — An optical computer is a computer that uses light instead of electricity (i.e. photons rather than electrons) to manipulate, store and transmit data. Photons have fundamentally different physical properties than electrons, and researchers have… …   Wikipedia