Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Circular sheet or circular blank – Recording medium or carrier
Patent
1994-11-14
1995-11-28
Ryan, Patrick J.
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Circular sheet or circular blank
Recording medium or carrier
428913, 430270, 430945, 369283, 369288, 346137, 347264, B32B 300
Patent
active
054706289
ABSTRACT:
An optical recording medium has a mask layer 4, an intermediate dielectric layer 5, a recording layer 6, and a reflective layer 8 on a transparent substrate 2. The recording layer 6 contains a recording material which changes its crystallographic structure upon exposure to recording light for recording information. The mask layer 4 contains a mask material which increases its light transmittance when melted and has a complex refractive index (n.sub.0 -ik.sub.0), of which the real part n.sub.0 drops by 1.0 or less and the imaginary part k.sub.0 drops by 0.25-1.0 when the mask material converts from a crystalline state to an amorphous or microcrystalline state. Signals can be reproduced from the medium with high C/N without resorting to reading light of shorter wavelength or an optical pickup objective lens having a larger numerical aperture and even when the linear velocity of the medium relative to recording and reproducing light is low.
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Handa Tokuhiko
Haratani Susumu
Inaba Ryo
Tominaga Junji
Evans Elizabeth
Ryan Patrick J.
TDK Corporation
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