Flying head with solid immersion lens partially mounted on a sli

Details Flying head with solid immersion lens partially mounted on a sli Flying head with solid immersion lens partially mounted on a sli

1997-09-10

1999-03-09

Chan, Eddie P.

Dynamic information storage or retrieval

Specific detail of information handling portion of system

369 4414, 369 4423, 369112, 369119, G11B 700

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058810420

ABSTRACT:
A head for a disk drive for reading data from and/or writing data to an optical recording medium, having a slider with a channel surface and an air-bearing surface, an optical clear path through the slider, a solid immersion lens mounted at least partially within the slider, and an objective lens mounted to the slider, such that the distances between the air-bearing surface, the objective, and the solid immersion lens are substantially constant.

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