Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Hitachi, Ltd.

Toshiaki Taii

Hiroaki Miwa

Ryoichi Sudo

Tetsuo Tajima

Reiji Tamura

Tamotsu Iida

Toyoyuki Nunomura

Hiroshi Nagate

Hitoshi Watanabe

Yoshito Tsunoda

Masaru Ito

Toshinori Sugiyama

Yuji Yamazaki

Yoshihiro Ikari

Hideki Nagano

Norio Ota

Atsuki Hirose

An optical disk includes a recording region formed on a substrate for recording user data, and a management region formed on the substrate which includes an identification information region for recording disk-specific identification information such as address information (ID), a SYNC code, or an error detection code (EDC). The identification information region in this optical disk has a flat portion (a mirror region) formed by means of sectioning part of a groove or a land in a given step. The disk-specific identification information is recorded on the identification information region inclusive of this mirror region as irreversible record marks. Moreover, a signal of the disk-specific identification information is detected by a laser beam which is servoed on the recording track of this optical disk. Then, a change in the detected signal level of the disk-specific identification information is detected based on a predetermined threshold level.

Optical disk, method of playing optical disk, and optical disk drive

An optical disk producing apparatus produces an optical disk by bonding a pair of replica disks together. The replica disks are disposed in a sealed space to oppose to each other with a predetermined gap therebetween. The sealed space is defined by a peripheral wall and opposite ends. The peripheral wall is divided into two portions which are slidingly movable relative to each other. When the sealed space is evacuated, the two portions are moved to apply an atmospheric pressure to the replica disks, so that the replica disks are bonded together into an optical disk.

Optical disk producing apparatus

Disclosed is a phase-change optical recording medium which has a reflectance and a signal modulation conformed to the CD standard, and which is usable for recording at the same linear velocity as the reproducing velocity specified in the CD standard. The phase-change optical recording medium comprises a metallic layer, a first protective layer, a recording layer, a second protective layer, and a reflecting layer on a substrate, in which recording is performed through change from a crystalline state to an amorphous state in the recording layer. The recording layer comprises a recording material of a Ge--Te--Sb--Se system, and the recording layer has an average composition in a direction of thickness which satisfies the following relations as represented by atomic %:

Optical recording medium

An optical apparatus for an optical information recording medium including a light source, two acoustooptical elements for modulating the light beam emitted from the light source and an objective lens for focusing the light beam emitted from the acoustooptical elements to the optical information recording medium, the acoustooptical elements being provided in an optical path extending from the light source to the objective lens arranged such that directions of travel of supersonic waves generated in the respective acoustooptical elements are crossed to each other.

Optical apparatus for optical information recording medium

An optical information recording medium in which pre-pits longer than the diameter of a reproducing radiation spot and pre-pits shorter than the diameter of the reproducing radiation spot coexist, the width W of the pre-pit longer than the diameter of the reproducing radiation spot being formed with a value satisfying a relation of .PHI./4&lt;W&lt;.PHI./3, wherein .PHI. is the diameter of the reproducing radiation spot and a method of fabricating the optical information recording medium comprising setting a power of a radiation beam when a pre-pit shorter than the diameter of the reproducing radiation spot among a plurality of pre-pits to be formed for each sector is cut to a predetermined optimum value, setting a power of the radiation beam when the pre-pit longer than the diameter of the reproducing radiation spot is cut to a predetermined value smaller than the predetermined optimum value of the radiation beam power when the pre-pit shorter than the diameter of the reproducing radiation spot is cut, and performing the cutting of pre-pits while combining the radiation beam power at the predetermined optimum value when the pre-pit shorter than the diameter of the reproducing radiation spot is cut with the radiation beam power at the predetermined smaller value when the pre-pit longer than the diameter of the reproducing radiation spot is cut.

Optical information recording medium and method of fabricating the same

A mastering machine for an optical disk provided with a closed loop for controlling the incident angle of at least one of the guide groove forming beam and header forming beam which enter a condenser lens, and thereby controlling to a predetermined level the distance between a guide groove forming light spot and a header forming light spot on a photosensitive layer.

Mastering machine for making an on-land recording master disk with two

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Ibaraki, Japan

Toshiaki Taii