Optical Readout

With an industrial heritage in the optical media industry, including the world’s first commercially available blue laser media, Plarion retains extensive knowledge and expertise in a range of optical media formats such as CD, DVD and Blu-ray.

Plarion’s engineers pioneered research in both organic dye-based media and phase change metallic alloys for professional storage products, as well as more unusual systems utilising ablative films, rewritable pigments and fluorescent compounds. Plarion now provides a world-class centre of technology consultancy for optical data surface development.

From recordable organic and inorganic media development to read channel software and error encoding and decoding algorithms, Plarion can provide services from the standard media test and evaluation to research into exciting new application areas, to exploit this widely available technology. We work with our clients to advance new techniques of manufacture and applications of this science, leveraging the highly developed but mass-produced optical hardware.

Our fields of expertise include;

  • recordable and re-writable formats
  • organic and inorganic media
  • read channel software
  • encoding and decoding algorithms
  • error detection and correction algorithms
  • media test and evaluation
  • new applications research including biomedical diagnostics
Plarion Ltd
Beech House, Melbourn Science Park, Cambridge Road, Melbourn, Hertfordshire, SG8 6HB
Tel: 01763 269700  Fax: 01763 268681 www.plarion.co.uk  enquiries@plarion.co.uk