Abstract:
The object of the present invention is to provide an optical recording and reproducing method for a dye-based recordable optical recording medium includes recording shortest marks on an organic dye recording layer formed on a substrate having a guide groove with a wobble formed thereon using one pulse which is more highly energized than pulses of each of marks other than the shortest marks; recording each of the third shortest marks and still longer marks using one pulse beam of which the rear edge is energized for a given length of time, and the energized pulse power is equal to the pulse power of each of the second shortest marks, and irradiating cooling pulses onto the backwards of the respective pulse beams of all the marks during recording at an optical energy of 0.1 mW or less for a given length of time, and provide an apparatus for the same.
Abstract:
A computer-readable medium having material at a select position therein and containing instructions for controlling an optical reader to cause the optical reader to re-read the position having the material one or more times to elicit a measurable parameter at such position.
Abstract:
A recording film has recording tracks that record information and separating regions that separate neighboring recording tracks. A recording film reflects light when performing recording, playback, and erasing of information. A protective film has a pattern of surface unevenness that corresponds with the recording racks and separating regions, and has a thickness at a recording track whereby there is a change in reflectivity of the reflective film depending upon whether or not there is information recorded, and a thickness at the separating regions such that reflectivity does not depend upon whether information is recorded.
Abstract:
An optical recording medium has deposited on a substrate a recording layer incorporating therein a cyanine dye, preferably an indoline dye, and optionally incorporating therein an autoxidizable compound or a thermoplastic resin and/or a singlet oxygen quencher.
Abstract:
A memory medium includes a memory layer of a polymer liquid crystal and a reflection layer disposed on a substrate. A record part having a different refractive index from that of a non-record part is formed in the memory layer so that the record part and the non-record part have a difference in optical thickness of the memory layer. In a reproduction step, the memory medium is irradiated with a reproduction beam of coherent light so that the reproduction beam is transmitted through the memory layer, reflected at the reflection layer and re-transmitted through the memory layer, during which the reproduction beam is subjected to interferential diffraction due to the optical thickness difference between the record part and the non-record part to allow readout of the recorded data.
Abstract:
An optical information recording medium is composed of a substrate and a recording layer which is formed on the substrate and made of a composition comprising at least gold and sulfur, with the gold content being 50 atomic percent or more in the composition.
Abstract:
By recording, reproducing and erasing information by using a recording thin film of the present invention, the information can be recorded, reproduced and erased by a single beam spot and new information can be rapidly rewritten while recorded information is erased. The irradiation beam is not limited to a light beam but it may be other energy beam such as electron beam or ion beam. The record medium is not limited to a disk but it may be tape or card and is applicable to a recording thin film other than the described thin film and to other methods.By using the described recording thin film, a manufacturing process is simple and reproducible, the recording/reproducing characteristic is high and the information can be stably stored for an extended time period. The record also may be rewritten a number of times.
Abstract:
The optical storage medium of the present invention comprises: (1) a substrate; (2) ultra-thin recording layers containing a dye; and (3) controlling layers. The recording layers and the controlling layers are accumulated alternately, and the uppermost layer is a controlling layer. The optical storage medium of the present invention contains dye cohesions in the recording layer in an extremely small amount and of extremely small size so that the medium can store a high density of records.
Abstract:
Recording and erasing optical information can be done by using an alloy film capable of forming two stable crystalline states differing in crystal texture and optical characteristics by being irradiated with optical energies under different conditions. The thin memory film preferably includes not more than 60 atom % of Gallium (Ga) and not less than 40 atom % of Antimony (Sb).
Abstract:
A read-only optical recording disc comprising a substrate, a metal reflective layer and an overlying protective layer, at least one of the substrate and the protective layer being light-transmissive, is marked by means of a pulsed scanning laser beam which transmits light in a patterned array through a transparent layer of the medium and indelibly marks the reflective layer of the medium without disrupting the surface continuity of the substrate and protective layer.