摘要:
An object is to provide an optical recording medium which can obtain a sufficient focusing characteristic even at recording speeds at which a recording linear velocity exceeds 4× speed at the same capacity as a DVD-ROM, and which can suppress in-plane fluctuations of the degree of modulation, and which enables highly reliable recording, and a method of manufacturing the optical recording medium and a recording and reproducing method. To this end, there is provided an optical recording medium having a substrate, and at least a recording layer and a reflective layer on the substrate, wherein the optical recording medium is formed such that the substrate has a set central value of a thickness, and when there is a substrate thickness within a given range from the set central value, an axial direction acceleration of the optical recording medium has a maximum allowable value, and as an amount of deviation from the set central value exceeds the given range, a maximum allowable value of the axial direction acceleration at the optical recording medium becomes smaller.
摘要:
The present invention relates to apparatuses and processes for recording dye-based recordable DVD media in higher quality at higher linear recording velocity, and provides an apparatus for recording a dye-based recordable DVD medium comprising a shortest mark recording unit, a second mark recording unit, and a cooling pulse irradiating unit, wherein the dye-based recordable DVD medium comprises a substrate and a recording layer formed on the substrate, the substrate comprises a guide groove to which wobble is formed, and the recording layer comprises at least an organic dye, the shortest mark recording unit is configured to record each of the shortest marks by use of one pulse beam of which the rear edge is more energized than the front edge, the second mark recording unit is configured to record each of the marks other than the shortest marks by use of one pulse beam of which the two sites of front and rear edges are energized, the cooling pulse irradiating unit is configured to irradiate cooling pulse laser beams onto the backwards of the respective pulse beams at 0.1 mW/pulse or less of optical energy, and the recording of marks is performed on the recording layer at a recording linear velocity of 42 m/sec or more.
摘要:
The present invention relates to apparatuses and processes for recording dye-based recordable DVD media in higher quality at higher linear recording velocity, and provides an apparatus for recording a dye-based recordable DVD medium comprising a shortest mark recording unit, a second mark recording unit, and a cooling pulse irradiating unit, wherein the dye-based recordable DVD medium comprises a substrate and a recording layer formed on the substrate, the substrate comprises a guide groove to which wobble is formed, and the recording layer comprises at least an organic dye, the shortest mark recording unit is configured to record each of the shortest marks by use of one pulse beam of which the rear edge is more energized than the front edge, the second mark recording unit is configured to record each of the marks other than the shortest marks by use of one pulse beam of which the two sites of front and rear edges are energized, the cooling pulse irradiating unit is configured to irradiate cooling pulse laser beams onto the backwards of the respective pulse beams at 0.1 mW/pulse or less of optical energy, and the recording of marks is performed on the recording layer at a recording linear velocity of 42 m/sec or more.
摘要:
An optical recording medium having a substrate, and a recording layer provided on the substrate and containing: (a) a formazan metal chelate including a formazan compound and a metal component, (b) a squarylium metal chelate including a squarylium compound and a metal component; and (c) at least one additional dye selected from phthalocyanine compounds and pentamethine cyanine compounds. Alternatively, the recording layer contains (a) a first formazan metal chelate including a first formazan compound and a first metal component and having the maximum absorption wavelength in the range of 500 to 650 nm, (b) a squarylium metal chelate including a squarylium compound and a metal component; and (c) a second formazan metal chelate including a second formazan compound and a second metal component and having the maximum absorption wavelength different from that of the first formazan metal chelate and in the range of 650 to 750 nm.
摘要:
A laser rewriting apparatus positioned on one side or the other side of a conveyance path through which a to-be-conveyed object on which a thermoreversible recording medium is affixed is conveyed in a predetermined conveyance direction. The laser rewriting apparatus emits laser light to the thermoreversible recording medium and rewrites an image. The laser writing apparatus includes an image erasing apparatus that emits laser light to the thermoreversible recording medium and erases the image from the thermoreversible recording medium; and an image recording apparatus positioned on the predetermined conveyance direction downstream side of the image erasing apparatus and records a new image by emitting laser light to the thermoreversible recording medium. The image erasing apparatus and the image recording apparatus have the respective laser light emitting parts from which the laser light is emitted at ends on the same side with respect to the predetermined conveyance direction.
摘要:
A method for erasing an image including irradiating an image formed on a thermoreversible recording medium with a laser light having a wavelength of 700 nm to 1,500 nm so as to erase the image, wherein an energy density of the laser light is in a range of the energy density which can erase the image and more than a center value of the range, wherein the thermoreversible recording medium includes a support, and a thermoreversible recording layer on the support, and wherein the thermoreversible recording layer contains a leuco dye serving as an electron-donating color-forming compound and a reversible developer serving as an electron-accepting compound, in which color tone reversibly changes by heat, and at least one of the thermoreversible recording layer and a layer adjacent to the thermoreversible recording layer contains a photothermal conversion material, which absorbs the light and converts the light into heat.
摘要:
An image processing method including: measuring a distance between a medium where an image is to be recorded and an image processing apparatus which stores a relation between irradiation energy and distance previously measured; calculating an irradiation energy from the distance measured in the measuring based on the relation stored in the image processing apparatus; and irradiating and heating the medium with laser beams having the irradiation energy obtained in the calculating to record an image in the medium.
摘要:
The present invention provides an image processing method which includes at least any one of an image recording step and an image erasing step, wherein a light irradiation intensity I1 at a center position of the laser beam irradiated in the image recording step and a light irradiation intensity I2 on an 80% light energy bordering surface to the total light energy of the irradiated laser beam satisfy the expression, 0.40≦I1/I2≦2.00, and in the image recording step, at an overlap portion where a first image line among a plurality of image lines constituting an image is overlapped with a second image line, any one of the first image line and the second image line is not to be recorded.
摘要:
A control device includes a shape information storage storing shape information to be plotted, a stroke generation unit generating first and second stroke data having transmission start and end coordinates of first and second strokes, a scanning start time computation unit determining scanning start time of the second stroke by adjusting, when selecting first and second points having a shortest distance, a waiting time to scan the second stroke, a traveling rate from the transmission end coordinates of the first stroke to the transmission start coordinates of the second stroke, and scanning rates of scanning the first and second strokes to have a desired time interval between the selected points, a plotting instruction generation unit generating plotting instructions including the scanning start time of the second stroke and the transmission start and end coordinates of the first and second strokes, a plotting instruction storage storing the plotting instructions, and a plotting instruction execution unit executing the plotting instructions.
摘要:
A recording method for dye-based recordable DVD medium which includes recording shortest marks on a recording layer primarily containing an organic dye using a simple rectangular wave pulse; recording marks each having the second shortest or still longer mark length using one pulse of which the front and rear edges are highly energized for a given time; and controlling the optical energy for irradiating rear edge or backward of the pulse with a cooling pulse to be 0.1 mW or less for a given time, wherein when the recording power of the front and rear edges of the respective pulses is represented by P1 and the recording power of intermediate pulse between the pulse front edge and the pulse rear edge is represented by P2, P1/P2 is set to be greater when P1 is a low power, and P1/P2 is set to be smaller when P1 is a high power.