Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Takashi Takaoka

Mitsuo Yamashita

Tadao Miura

Masahiko Mochizuki

Tetsuo Saito

Satoru Koyahara

Kiyoshi Tsuboi, Deceased

An optical disc memory for optically storing and retrieving information formed of a substrate and a recording layer supported on the substrate. The recording layer has a chemically stable dielectric material and a semiconductor which has an optical property that changes reversibly as a function of the intensity of a laser beam applied through the substrate. A multilayered optical disc memory having a substrate, a recording layer formed on the substrate and a metallic layer formed on the recording layer, and a method of optically storing and retrieving information by using the above-described optical disc memory, are also disclosed.

Optical memory for storing and retrieving information by light exposure

An optical disk for recording information, comprising a substrate and a plurality of thin film layers disposed on said substrate, each film having different optical extinction coefficient from that is the others. The thin film layers can be converted into a single layer when irradiated with a recording beam.

Optical recording medium

In an optical disk having an optical recording layer which is capable of having information thereon using a laser beam with information superposed by modulation there is formed a spiral protruding or recessed track having a width equal to about half or less of the wavelength of a laser beam to be used, this track being utilized as the guiding track of the laser beam. A method for manufacturing such an optical disk is also disclosed according to which a recessed track for tracking is formed by plastic deformation of the upper surface of an original disk with a hard processing stylus such as a diamond stylus. The original disk thus produced is utilized for forming an optical recording disk having a protruding or recessed guiding track.

Optical disk with narrow guide tracks

Method for manufacturing an optical disc

A method of making an optical memory disk and a product thereby comprising the steps of applying a thin tellurium film to a base plate, and of forming an oxidizing layer on the surface of the tellurium by oxidizing treatment of the tellurium film, and an optical memory disk produced by the above-mentioned method.

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Yokohama, Japan

Takashi Takaoka