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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2015
Applicant:

Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael A. Cordle, Eagan, MN (US);

Tim Rausch, Farmington, MN (US);

Franklin P. Martens, Bloomington, MN (US);

Assignee:

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2006.01); G11B 20/10 (2006.01); G11B 7/1263 (2012.01); G11B 5/00 (2006.01); G11B 20/18 (2006.01); G11B 5/455 (2006.01); G11B 5/012 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/10212 (2013.01); G11B 5/09 (2013.01); G11B 7/1263 (2013.01); G11B 5/012 (2013.01); G11B 5/455 (2013.01); G11B 20/10305 (2013.01); G11B 20/1816 (2013.01); G11B 2005/0021 (2013.01);
Abstract

A laser power applied to a recording head is changed for a plurality of iterations. Each iteration involves, via the recording head at each laser power, writing multiple adjacent tracks to a heat-assisted recording medium and determining a bit error rate for at least one of the adjacent tracks at each laser power. A first laser power is found that achieves a minimum bit error rate of the iterations. An operational value of laser power that is smaller than the first laser power is used during operational recording to reduce adjacent track interference.


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