Reliability of associative recall based on data manipulations in phase encoded volume holographic storage systems

We investigate the characteristics of correlation signals accomplished by content addressing in a phase encoded volume holographic storage system under different realistic conditions. In particular, we explore two crucial cases with respect to the structure of the data. The first one deals with a scenario where only partial or defective data are available for content addressing. The second case takes similarities among the stored data sets into account, which significantly differ from their statistical correlation. For both the cases we provide, for the first time, a theoretical approach and present experimental results when employing phase-code multiplexing. Finally, we discuss the reliability of the employed methods.