Abstract:
According to one embodiment, an information recording and reproducing apparatus including, a focus control module, an objective lens control module, a calculation module, and a tracking control module. If, detection the recording marks line, to focus a laser light of a second wavelength to the recording layer through an objective lens and to operation a recording layer tracking control using a tracking error signal taken out from a second reflected light and a laser light of a first wavelength to a track groove through the objective lens and to operation a guide layer tracking control to control the objective lens using a tracking error signal taken out from a first reflected light.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, an information recording medium characterized by including, a first servo layer, a second servo layer, and a data layer, the information recording medium further including, a first spiral track and a second spiral track formed between the first servo layer and the second servo layer and spiraling in opposite directions.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a data storage device includes a data recording medium, a light source, and following units. The light application unit splits the laser beam from the light source, and applies the first and second light beams to the data recording medium from different directions. The light detection unit detects reflected light beams from the data recording medium. The light deflection unit deflects the reflected light beams to direct the reflected light beams to the light detection unit. The arithmetic unit calculates positional error information based on the detection signal. The drive unit displaces a position and a posture of the data recording medium based on the positional error information.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a pickup head includes a plurality of light sources, a first objective lens, second objective lens, a driving unit, a first control unit, a second control unit, light receiving units. The first objective lens focuses a first light beam at a first recording layer. The second objective lens focuses a second light beam at a second recording layer. The driving unit moves the first objective lens and the second objective lens in a first direction and a second direction. The first control unit corrects displacement from target track along the first direction. The second control unit controls a moving direction of a position of the second light spot in the second direction.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a first encoder encodes main information, a second encoder encodes sub-information, a first modulator modulates a carrier based on an output of the first encoder, a duplicating module duplicates an output of the second encoder to generate encoded sub-information units, and a second modulator amplitude-modulates an output of the first modulator based on the encoded sub-information units. The second modulator amplitude-modulates with σ/(μ×(2N)1/2) being 0.4 or less, wherein a noise power of a transmission path or a storage medium is σ2, a number of the encoded sub-information units is N, signal levels after amplitude modulation, which correspond to bit 1 and bit 0 of the encoded sub-information units, are A and B, and a level difference A−B is μ.
Abstract:
A two-layer recording type optical disk capable of realizing stable recording and reproduction without being affected by another recording layer and an optical disk apparatus for the two-layer recording type optical disk are provided. In layouts of various areas in the optical disk, a position where a border between a recorded part and an unrecorded part is formed on one recording layer is set so that the position is always separated from a position where a border between a recorded part and an unrecorded part is formed on another recording layer by a predetermined clearance amount. Moreover, to a recording layer farther from an incident surface, test recording or data recording is always performed through a recorded part on a closer recording layer.
Abstract:
An optical disc has a read-only system lead-in area and a recordable data area. Disc boundary information representing a boundary in a radial direction of an area on which capability of recording at a predetermined recording speed is guaranteed is recorded on the system lead-in area while being related to each tuple speed. An optical disc device, upon user's instruction of tuple-speed recording, compares the boundary information related to the instructed tuple speed with a present recording position, performs recording at the instructed tuple speed if the present recording position is on the outside of the boundary, and performs recording at a tuple speed lower than the instructed tuple speed if the present recording position is on the inside of the boundary.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, an optical disc device includes a light source portion which applies laser light to an optical disc, a drive portion which supplies a drive current to the light source portion so as to cause the light source portion to apply laser light of light pulses having relaxation oscillation, and a controller which controls the drive portion to supply a drive current so as to cause the light source portion to emit laser light of (n−1)×N (N is an integral number) light pulses having relaxation oscillation with respect to a mark with recording mark length nT (n: integral number, T: channel clock) to be recorded on the optical disc.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a laser drive circuit which supplies a drive current to a laser element which outputs light at a predetermined wavelength, and a laser control circuit which supplies a predetermined timing pulse for generation of relaxation oscillation in a laser drive current supplied to the laser drive circuit, the laser control circuit supplying a laser drive current higher than a threshold value which is supplied from the laser drive circuit to the laser element to enable laser light to be output from the laser element, the laser control circuit setting the laser drive current to a level lower than the threshold value on the basis of the timing pulse.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, an optical information recording medium includes pre-grooves with an irregular shape and lands each of which is sandwiched between the pre-grooves adjacent to each other, where the pre-grooves and lands are defined on an interface between a recording layer and a light reflection layer in a recording film, where the recording film includes a light reflectivity that enables reproduction with light of 650±5 nm, the recording layer includes a recording sensitivity with respect to light by a wavelength shorter than 650±5 nm, and a recording mark can be formed on the pre-groove by using light with a wavelength shorter than 650±5 nm.