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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1985
Noburu Fukushima, Tokyo, JP;
Hisashi Yoshino, Tokyo, JP;
Masashi Sahashi, Yokohama, JP;
Shuichi Komatsu, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A method for recording and reproducing information on or from an optical recording medium, which comprises: recording information by illuminating light to the optical recording medium which is equipped as a recording film with a thin film comprising dispersed fine grains of a material capable of showing a metal-insulator transition to cause the metal-insulator transition owing to the heating effect of the light; and reproducing the information by utilizing changes in optical characteristics owing to a plasma resonance absorption by the fine grains dispersed in the thin film. The method of this invention permits high-density recording with high sensitivity and upon reproduction, enables reproduction of record with a high signal/noise ratio. The recording medium obtained by this method is an erasable optical recording medium, which permits its reutilization for recording and reproduction after erasure of the previously-stored record.