Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 8-1 Sam Is Putting Together

question 25

Multiple Choice

Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 8-1 Sam is putting together a presentation in which she explains how holographic storage works. Sam explains that to record data, holographic storage systems split the light from a blue laser beam into two beams, and that the ____ beam contains the data.

• A)signal
• B)reference
• C)acute
• D)inferred

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