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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2009
Stephan Knappmann, Zimmern ob Rottweil, DE;
Michael Krause, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Stefan Kimmelmann, Pfaffenweiler, DE;
Stephan Knappmann, Zimmern ob Rottweil, DE;
Michael Krause, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Stefan Kimmelmann, Pfaffenweiler, DE;
Thomson Licensing, Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
The optical storage medium comprises a substrate layer, and a data layer having a mark/space data structure with data arranged in tracks on the substrate layer, , wherein between neighboring tracks alternatingly a groove section or a land section without a groove is arranged. The tracks, groove sections and land sections may be arranged by providing a single spiral, two spirals, or four spirals on the optical storage medium. The optical storage medium is in particular an optical disc comprising a nonlinear layer with a super-resolution structure arranged above the data layer.