摘要:
An optical head including a first dielectric layer having a first refractive index, a pair of second dielectric layers located adjacent to the first dielectric layer on both sides thereof, each of the second dielectric layers having a second refractive index larger than the first refractive index, a pair of third dielectric layers located adjacent to the second dielectric layers, and a pair of fourth dielectric layers located adjacent to the third dielectric layers, each of the fourth dielectric layers having a third refractive index larger than the first refractive index. Light is incident on the optical head in a direction orthogonal to a layering direction of the first to fourth dielectric layers. The first dielectric layer and each of the third dielectric layers have different refractive indices or different thicknesses.
摘要:
An optical head including a first dielectric layer having a first refractive index, a pair of second dielectric layers located adjacent to the first dielectric layer on both sides thereof, each of the second dielectric layers having a second refractive index larger than the first refractive index, a pair of third dielectric layers located adjacent to the second dielectric layers, and a pair of fourth dielectric layers located adjacent to the third dielectric layers, each of the fourth dielectric layers having a third refractive index larger than the first refractive index. Light is incident on the optical head in a direction orthogonal to a layering direction of the first to fourth dielectric layers. The first dielectric layer and each of the third dielectric layers have different refractive indices or different thicknesses.
摘要:
A head suspension assembly comprising: a head suspension; a head slider having the medium-opposed surface opposed to a storage medium, the head slider having the supported surface received on the head suspension, the supported surface being defined at the farside of the medium-opposed surface; an electromagnetic transducer embedded in the medium-opposed surface of the head slider; a light waveguide incorporated in the head slider, the light waveguide extending from the supported surface to the medium-opposed surface; and an optical element interposed between the supported surface and the head suspension, wherein the optical element defines: a light-collecting surface configured to collect light input into the optical element in parallel with the supported surface; and a light-reflective surface configured to reflect the light at a predetermined angle so as to direct the light to the light waveguide.
摘要:
The present invention provides a light emitting head which has high utilization efficiency of light and facilitates alignment with other heads and which facilitates fabrication, information storage device which provides high volume access to information with such a light emitting head, and composite head manufacturing method suitable to fabricate a composite head having such a light emitting head. The light emitting head includes: a first structure section including a first well propagating section consisting of a low extinction material with substantially negligible attenuation of light, a second well propagating section consisting of another low extinction material with substantially negligible attenuation of light, and whose refractive index is larger than that of the first well propagating section, and a poor propagating section consisting of a material with a propagating characteristics poorer than the second well propagating section; and a second structure section concentrating light on the first structure section.
摘要:
A light intensity distribution converting device is formed by a transparent body having a first curved surface, a second curved surface, and an outer circumferential surface extending between the first and second curved surfaces. One of first and second surfaces has a concave surface configuration and the other has a convex surface configuration. Diverging light is made incident to the first curved surface, for example. The light intensity distribution of light made incident to the body from first curved surface is different from that of light emerging the body from the second curved surface, due to refractions at the first and second curved surfaces. The light intensity distribution converting device can be used as a collimator lens or an objective lens in an optical data storing apparatus.
摘要:
The light intensity converter comprises a transparent body including opposite first and second curved surfaces. The body is surrounded by an outer peripheral surface extending between the first and second curved surfaces. The body of the converter is arranged such that the incident light is made incident to the body at the first curved surface and emerges from the second curved surface. The incident light diverges in a certain area and converges in another area, by refraction, so that the light intensity distribution of the incident, first curved surface is converted into a different light intensity distribution while the light travels through the converter, and thus exits from the second curved surface.
摘要:
A magnetic recording medium used for the thermally assisted magnetic recording system which fires a laser beam at a magnetic recording medium to partially heat the medium and applies a magnetic field from the outside to the part heated to lower the coercivity for recording. The magnetic recording medium is configured by a glass substrate on which a heat radiation layer, heat retention layer, intermediate layer, and recording layer are stacked. Further, the heat retention layer is configured by a member having an effective refractive index lower than the effective refractive index of the recording layer and having an temperature diffusion coefficient determined by the specific heat, density, and heat conductivity rate higher than glass and lower than metal. The material with a high temperature diffusion coefficient is used lowered in temperature diffusion coefficient using a porous structure or granular structure.
摘要:
A head slider is used for magnetic record by irradiating a recording medium with tiny spots of light. The head slider includes a slider main body having a bottom surface facing a recording medium and a top surface opposite to the bottom surface, an optical head provided in the slider main body to irradiate the recording medium with light and an optical layer to propagate light supplied from outside and lead the light to the optical head. The optical layer is curved along a curved surface formed in a portion of the slider main body to form a curved propagation path of light.
摘要:
A multilayer optical recording medium including a first recording layer for recording or reproducing information by using a first light beam having a center wavelength λ1, a first photochromic layer provided on the first recording layer, and a first optical waveguide layer provided on the first photochromic layer for guiding to the first photochromic layer a second light beam having a center wavelength λ2 different from the center wavelength λ1. The multilayer optical recording medium further includes a second recording layer provided on the first optical waveguide layer for recording or reproducing information by using the first light beam, a second photochromic layer provided on the second recording layer, and a second optical waveguide layer provided on the second photochromic layer for guiding the second light beam to the second photochromic layer. The first and second photochromic layers become transparent to the first light beam by irradiation with light or by application of heat. The reflectance of each of the first and second photochromic layers to the first light beam can be repeatedly increased by irradiation with the second light beam and can be repeatedly decrease to restore the transparent state.
摘要:
There is provided a magnetic head and an information storage apparatus capable of applying light to a position close to a position to which a magnetic field is applied, without reducing the intensity of the magnetic field. The magnetic head includes a magnetic pole which emits a magnetic flux from an end thereof; an optical pole having an end aligned with the end of the magnetic pole and has a refractive index different from that of the magnetic pole; a light applying section which applies light to a side of the end of the optical pole from a position apart from the optical pole, and a filling section which fills the space between the light applying section and the end of the optical pole and has a refractive index different from any of those of the magnetic pole and optical pole.