volume holographic memory (VHM) systems suffering from both random and systematic
errors. The bit-error rate (BER) is used as the data-fidelity measure and as a design metric
for optical 4f systems. The correlated error patterns arising from both lens aberrations and
misalignment errors are analyzed, and we discuss the information theoretic storage capacity
of VHM in the presence of such correlated error patterns. The performance of interleaving …