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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1990
Alan A Fennema, Tucson, AZ (US);
Blair I Finkelstein, Tucson, AZ (US);
Morovat Tayefeh, Tucson, AZ (US);
Raymond Yardy, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An optical disk recorder is capable of operating with diverse types of optical media. A device initialization procedure is repeated for each receipt of each optical medium. Such procedure includes moving an objective lens to an extreme radial position, defocussing the lens at a most remote position, then calibrating the laser circuits to ensure that the emission of radiation from the laser will not inadvertently destroy signals recorded on the just received medium. Then the medium type is read from the medium and based upon the type indication, various additional calibrating procedures are followed and different sources of laser control values are used for signal exchanging operations between the recorder and received optical medium.