Dynamic information storage or retrieval – Specific detail of information handling portion of system – Radiation beam modification of or by storage medium
Patent
1987-08-27
1989-02-21
Faber, Alan
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
Specific detail of information handling portion of system
Radiation beam modification of or by storage medium
369275, 346 76L, 365126, G11C 1304, G11B 700
Patent
active
048072184
ABSTRACT:
A digital recording medium formed of a thermoplastic substrate having a regular array of microscopic optically-alterable mirrors each by a mesa projecting from one surface. The parallel rows of the mirrors are the same distance apart as the mirrors in each row. A layer of transparent plastic over the mirrors provides dust protection. The medium can be formed from a single transparent thermoplastic substrate with an array of indentations in a first surface. The bottom of each indentation is coated with a reflective material. When viewed from the opposite surface of the substrate, the indentations become mesas.
Recording is by exposure to a laser beam that reduces the reflectivity of selected mirrors. After exposure to the recording laser beam, the mirrors retain enough reflectivity to be distinguishable from the intervening valleys. The mirrors serve as timing and tracking markers prior to and during recording, and during read-out. The area and location of each information bit is determined prior to recording: not as a result of the recording process. The mirrors are scanned diagonally across the rows that make up the array. Scanning is accomplished by reciprocating movement of the medium.
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Barrett E. T.
Faber Alan
Nguyen Hoa T.
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