摘要:
A power control device for controlling a power of a light source of an optical beam directed to an optical medium. The power control device includes a reflected light detector for detecting reflected light from the optical medium when irradiated by an optical beam which is following a track; an arithmetic unit for calculating from the reflected light a transmissivity of light transmitted from a disk surface to a recording layer or an amount of directed light on the recording layer of the medium; and power control means for controlling the power of the light source for emission based on a calculation result produced by the arithmetic unit.
摘要:
There is provided an optical information recording/reproducing device for recording, reproducing, or erasing information on an optical information recording medium including information tracks formed on a disk substrate including alternating groove tracks and land tracks each including: a header region for recording identification data representing location information in pre-pits; and a data region for recording user data, the pre-pits being grouped into blocks, the blocks wobbling alternately toward an inner periphery or an outer periphery of the disk substrate along a radius direction from a center line of each information track by a distance which is substantially 1/2 of the information track pitch. The pre-pits are provided along the radius direction at a pitch twice as large as the track pitch. The device includes: an optical system for radiating a light beam as a converged beam spot on an information track; an optical detector including two light receiving portions divided in parallel to the track direction for receiving the light beam reflected from the recording medium; a signal generator for generating a differential signal and an addition signal of output signals respectively output from the light receiving portions; a header region detection circuit for determining whether the converged beam spot is tracing the header region or the data region using the differential signal; and at least one reading circuit for reading the identification data from the differential signal and for reading information recorded in the data region from the addition signal.
摘要:
A recording wavelength generator selects control parameters of a recording pulse sequence, based on combinations of mark length, a first space length of a first space immediately before the mark, and a second space length of a second space immediately after the mark. A laser drive circuit records the marks by the recording pulse sequence. The first and second space lengths are classified into m and n types, respectively. An absolute value of a difference between two predetermined control parameters from among (m×n) control parameters selected during recording on a second information layer located on an incidence side of the laser beam with respect to a predetermined first information layer from among N information layers is equal to or greater than an absolute value of a difference between two predetermined control parameters from among the (m×n) control parameters selected during recording on the first information layer.
摘要:
In an information recording medium including a substrate and an information layer having a recording layer, on and from which information is recorded and reproduced by laser beam application, the recording layer is made from a Te—O-MA-MB material consisting of Te, O, MA (wherein MA is at least one element selected from Au and Pd) and MB (wherein MB is at least one element selected from Ag, Cu and Ni) with a content of Te of 10 atom % to 50 atom %, the content of O of 40 atom % to 70 atom %, the content of MA of 3 atom % to 15 atom %, and the content of MB of 3 atom % to 15 atom %. This constitution provides a low-cost information recording medium which enables high-density recording and stable reproduction of recorded data for a long period of term.
摘要:
A most probable path is selected from a number n (where n≧2) of paths of state transitions occurring from a first state Sk−j (where k≧3 and j≧2) at a time k−j into a second state Sk at a time k. The method includes the steps of detecting predetermined combinations of the first and second states Sk−j and Sk defining the n probable paths in a predetermined period j between the times k−j and k, and evaluating the reliability of a read signal, decoded in the period j, by |Pa−Pb|. Pa and Pb indicate the probabilities of state transition of first and second state transition paths in the period j. The first and second state transition paths are estimated to be the most probable and the second most probable, respectively, among the n probable paths defined by the combinations detected.
摘要:
According to a method of the present invention for recording data on an optical disk, a recording pulse corresponding to a long mark includes a combination of a leading pulse and a subsequent intermediate pulse. Further, a level of the leading pulse indicates a first recording power, and a level of the intermediate pulse indicates a second recording power. When an optical disk includes a plurality of recording layers, a ratio of the second recording power to the first recording power is determined for each recording layer. When the recording speed is variable, the ratio of the second recording power to the first recording power is determined for each recording speed.
摘要:
An optical disc verification method according to the present invention includes the steps of: writing data on first, second and third radial locations on an optical disc at a writing speed V1 and reading the data written there, thereby measuring read signal quality index values A, B and C, where the second radial location is inside of the first radial location and the third radial location is inside of the second radial location; writing data on the first and second radial locations at a writing speed V2, which is higher than V1, and reading the data written there, thereby measuring read signal quality index values D and E; and correcting the signal quality index value C with the difference between the signal quality index values B and E, thereby calculating a signal quality index value F that would be obtained if data is written on, and then read from, the third radial location at the speed V2.
摘要:
An information recording medium according to the present invention includes three or more information recording layers. Each of the plurality of information recording layers includes a test recording area usable for adjusting a recording condition. One of the plurality of information recording layers includes a reproduction-only management data area in which management data usable for managing the information recording medium is pre-recorded. One information recording layer includes a recordable management data area in which management data usable for managing the information recording medium is newly writable. Each of the other two or more information recording layers among the plurality of information recording layers includes a test recording area at a radial position overlapping the radial position of a part of the reproduction-only management data area. In the one recording layer including the recordable management data area, the recordable management data area is provided at two positions, i.e., one on the inner side and the other on the outer side to the test recording area.
摘要:
An information recording medium, comprising N number (N is an integer fulfilling N≧3) of information layers on which information is recordable, and allowing information to be recorded on each of the information layers and allowing information recorded on each of the information layers to be reproduced by being irradiated with laser light. The N number of information layers include an N'th information layer, an (N−1)th information layer, an (N−2)th information layer, . . . a second information layer and a first information layer sequentially located from a laser light incidence side. A reflectance of the N'th information layer is RN, and a reflectance of an M'th information layer (M refers to every integer fulfilling N>M≧1) is RM. The laser light used to irradiate the N'th information layer for reproducing information recorded on the N'th information layer has an upper limit reproduction power PrNmax, and the laser light used to irradiate the M'th information layer for reproducing information recorded on the M'th information layer has an upper limit reproduction power PrMmax. The following expressions (1) and (2) are concurrently fulfilled: RN>RM (1) PrNmax
摘要:
An optical disk includes a groove and a land. Data is recorded on either the land or the groove. A pitch of the groove and a pitch of the land are 0.32 μm or more. The optical disk has a data efficiency of 80% or more by adopting a format in which other types of user data are added to every plural user data sets. The data efficiency is defined by a ratio of a user data capacity that can be used by a user to a total data capacity of the optical disk.