Abstract:
An optical data storage system comprises a multiple data surface medium and optical head. The medium comprises a plurality of substrates separated by a light transmissive medium. Data surfaces are located on the substrate surfaces which lie adjacent a light transmissive medium. The data surfaces are substantially light transmissive. The optical head includes an aberration compensator to allow the head to focus onto the different data surfaces and a filter to screen out unwanted reflected light.
Abstract:
An optical data storage system comprises a multiple data surface medium and optical head. The medium comprises a plurality of substrates separated by a light transmissive medium. Data surfaces are located on the substrate surfaces which lie adjacent a light transmissive medium. The data surfaces are substantially light transmissive. The optical head includes an aberration compensator to allow the head to focus onto the different data surfaces and a filter to screen out unwanted reflected light.
Abstract:
A magnetooptical disk has two axially space-apart translucent recording layers. Each translucent recording layer is axially closer to an outer surface of the disk than to the other recording layer. This geometry enables closely axially disposing a magnetic field biasing means to each of the recording layers from opposite axial sides of the disk, respectively. Laser beams are axially introduced into the disk to pass through one of the translucent recording layers in a defocussed state to reach a second recording layer in a focussed state. In this manner, recording in the second layer is effected by a modulated magnetic bias field using a constant intensity laser beam. Two sets of laser beams and magnetic biasing means are provided for recording on both data in both of the recording layers.
Abstract:
An optical data storage system comprises a multiple data surface medium and optical head. The medium comprises a plurality of substrates separated by a light transmissive medium. Data surfaces are located on the substrate surfaces which lie adjacent a light transmissive medium. The data surfaces are substantially light transmissive. The optical head includes an aberration compensator to allow the head to focus onto the different data surfaces and a filter to screen out unwanted reflected light.
Abstract:
A method for optically measuring at least one characteristic of a thin film on a reflecting substrate. A p-polarized beam of collimated light of known intensity is directed through an integrating sphere onto the film at substantially the Brewster's angle of the film. All the light is reflected into the sphere, including all diffusely reflected light as well as the light specularly reflected at a region inside the sphere where the specularly reflected light is incident. A reflective surface is provided for determining the thickness of the film as a function of the total intensity of light sensed within the sphere. An absorptive surface is provided at said region for absorbing the specularly reflected light for determining the porosity or surface roughness of the film based on the intensity of the diffused light sensed within the sphere not reflected from the substrate.
Abstract:
A method for neutralizing the flying height sensitivity associated with thermal pole-tip protrusion (T-PTP) of an air bearing slider comprises creating head material data and air bearing surface (ABS) compensation data, based on which a head/ABS design is created. The head material data comprises at least one material property that is dependent on the manner in which the material is fabricated, such as the coefficient of thermal expansion of a material deposited using a certain deposition process. The ABS compensation data comprises data about how respective ABS features affect air bearing pressure and, therefore, ABS compensation. A protrusion profile is determined for the head/ABS design, and whether or not this protrusion profile meets particular design criteria is then determined. The head/ABS creating and determining process can be iterated if necessary to arrive at a head/ABS design which provides neutral flying height sensitivity to a range of operational temperatures.
Abstract:
An optical disk player reads either thin-substrate disks or thick-substrate disks. The disk players optical system is designed for reading the thin-substrate optical disks and has an effective numerical aperture. Thick-substrate optical disks having a thicker substrate than the thin-substrate optical disk result in the laser beam reading such thick-substrate optical disks having spherical aberration sufficient to prevent reliable data detection. When thick-substrate optical disks are being read, the read portion of the optical system is automatically changed to accommodate the undesired spherical aberration. The thick-substrate disk reflected laser beam is subjected to annular filtering that reduces spherical aberration sufficiently for enabling data and servo signal detection. Annular filtering is provided in an optical read path by an effective opaque or translucent disk centrally located in a pupil of the laser beam optical filter disposed in the read portion. An apertured plate having an aperture comparable to a known diffraction limited spot size is disposed between the laser beam filter and photo detectors. The apertured plate is disposed in the focal region of a lens in the optical read path.
Abstract:
An optical data storage system comprises a multiple data surface medium and optical head. The medium comprises a plurality of substrates separated by a light transmissive medium. Data surfaces are located on the substrate surfaces. A layer of a dye material is deposited onto each of the data surfaces. The thickness of the dye layer determines the amount of reflectivity for each of the data surfaces.
Abstract:
An optical data storage system uses an optical medium made of a stack of spaced-apart optical disks. Each disk in the stack is made of light-transmissive material, such as polycarbonate when the system is a CD-ROM system, and has a partially light-transmissive data layer on at least one of its faces. A focusing lens in the system focuses light to the data layers along optical paths, with each data layer corresponding to a unique optical path length. The light is focused to each data layer by reflection off adjacent data layers such that the total substrate thickness through which the light passes is the same for each optical path. In this manner, the fixed spherical aberration correction provided by the focusing lens is adequate and variable aberration correction is not necessary. By appropriate selection of reflectivities of the multiple data layers in the disk stack, it is possible to design the system so that the effective reflected light intensity from each data layer is the same, and that adjustable signal amplification is not necessary.
Abstract:
Arrangements and methods are described employing input optical intensity to output spatial position mapping, for performing optical computing or logic processing functions. An electro-optical device which receives discrete input optical object beams of different intensity levels and a separate readout optical beam, diffracts portions of the readout optical beam to unique spatial positions in two dimensional space, each portion as a function of the intensity of individual discrete input beams or of combinations of the intensities of the input beams. A spatial filter having discrete apertures at selected ones of the unique spatial positions transmits the selected diffracted optical outputs for implementing logic or computing functions.