摘要:
An information recording medium (1) which includes at least a recording layer (13), and first and second metallic layers (15, 16) disposed on an opposite side of an energy beam incident side of the recording layer and having different compositions, and in which the first one of the first and second metallic layers located closer to the recording layer contains Al, Ag, Au, Pt and Pd as its main components and a sum of contents of these atoms is 60 % or more. Thereby recording and reproducing of information can be realized with a high reliability.
摘要:
An information recording method of and an information recording apparatus for carrying out a recording of information by irradiating an energy beam to an information recording medium (1) by modulating power of the energy beam at least at a high power level and at an intermediate power level lower than the high power level, wherein a recording is carried out in a recording waveform having a downward directed pulse toward a power level (P11) lower than the intermediate power level (Pm1) after continuous high-power pulse trains of the power level (Ph1) so that the width of the downward directed pulse is changed according to a relative speed of the energy beam and the information recording medium (1).
摘要:
A tracking control apparatus comprises an A/D converter (20), an edge detection circuit (25), a latch circuit (22) and a ROM (23) to change a tracking error signal (a) having a sinusoidal characteristic to a relative position of a light beam and a track on a disk to have a linear characteristic to the relative position. Stable tracking control free from off-tracking due to disturbance is attained even when amplitudes of the tracking error signal (a) and a tracking sum signal are not equal.
摘要:
An information reproducing method for reproducing information recorded on an optical disk (107), wherein light from a semiconductor laser (101) is converged as at least one focused spot on the optical disk. The light is reflected as a plurality of reflected light beams the polarities of the intensity distributions of which are mutually in a substantially inverted relationship with each other when the focused spot crosses a track of the optical disk. The reflected beams are detected and their respective focus error signals are added to obtain a focus error signal, and their respective tracking error signals are subtracted to obtain a tracking error signal. The optical disk has a groove width equal to substantially one half of its track pitch. The tracking error signals may be amplified by a gain proportional to a ratio between reciprocals of respective total amounts of light reflected by the plurality of reflected beams.
摘要:
An optical head eliminates an disturbance which occurs in a focus error signal in association with the decentering of an optical disk (107) when an optical spot crosses a track on a storage film surface, and in addition the optical head cancels an off-set which occurs in a tracking error signal in association with the movement of an objective lens (106). In the constitution of the optical head, phases of wave surfaces of ±1st order diffracted lights are shifted by an amount of λ/2 with a common period by using a phase-inverted diffraction grating (701) the phase of which is inverted with a period of Dλ/(2P · NA) in a radial direction of the optical disk (107), thus causing, on the optical disk (107), sub-spots (109, 110) to be located on the same track as a main-spot (108). Taking advantage of this location, focal point shift error signals of the main-spot 108 and the sub-spots (109, 110) are added to each other with an appropriate gain ratio, thereby making it possible to cancel the disturbance which occurs in the focus error signal. Meanwhile, tracking error signals of the main-spot (108) and the sub-spots (109, 110) according to a push-pull method are subtracted from each other with an appropriate gain ratio, thereby making it possible to cancel the off-set.
摘要:
The present invention comprises an arrangement with removable optical element having a predetermined focal distance in the light path between a light source and an objective lens, so as to insert said optical element into the light path between the light source and the objective lens for playing back or recording onto one type of thickness of disk plates, as well as to remove it therefrom for playing back or recording onto another type of thickness of disk plates. Alternatively, by retaining variably the distance between the light source and the collimator lens, the distance between the light source and the collimator lens along with the light path is variably changed according to the thickness of the disk plate being inserted. Then by determining the type of the disk inserted and accordingly selectably inserting/removing the optical element, only one objective lens may be used to conform to the disk plates having different thicknesses.
摘要:
A tracking control apparatus comprises an A/D converter (20), an edge detection circuit (25), a latch circuit (22) and a ROM (23) to change a tracking error signal (a) having a sinusoidal characteristic to a relative position of a light beam and a track on a disk to have a linear characteristic to the relative position. Stable tracking control free from off-tracking due to disturbance is attained even when amplitudes of the tracking error signal (a) and a tracking sum signal are not equal.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for optically recording information in which the phase state of each recording position of the recording film of a recording medium such as an optical disk is reversibly changed between an amorphous phase and a crystalline phase using a single laser beam, thereby optically recording information on the recording film. The recording position on the recording film is heated to the melting point thereof or more through laser beam irradiation irrespectively of the information to be recorded. After completion of the heating, in order to change the phase state of the recording film at the recording position in accordance with the information, the power and/or irradiation time of the laser beam is controlled so as to provide different times required for the temperature of the recording position to pass the crystallization temperature region of the recording film. The recording medium has at least one record of data indicative of the melting point of the recording film and data indicative of the time required to pass the crystallization temperature region for placing the recording position in the amorphous or crystalline state.