108results about "Recording involving bubble/bump forming" patented technology

An optical recording medium 10 according to the present invention includes a supporting substrate 11 on which a groove 11a is formed, a light transmitting layer 12, a noble metal oxide layer 23 provided between the supporting substrate 11 and the light transmitting layer 12, wherein a depth of the groove 11a is set in excess of λ / 8 n but 60 nm or less, where n is a refractive index of the light transmitting layer 12 with respect to a light whose wavelength is λ. Thus, the good signal characteristics, especially a push-pull signal with an enough amplitude, can be obtained when the super-resolution recording and super-resolution reading are carried out by irradiating the laser beam onto the noble metal oxide layer 23. Also, since the depth of the groove is set to 60 nm or less, a grave difficulty never arises in producing a stamper used to manufacture the substrate.

A rewritable optical information recording medium including a recording layer composed of an organic dye film is provided, in which recording and erasing information can be performed reversibly by laser light irradiation. A rewritable optical information recording medium including at least one organic dye film which is substantially made of only at least one kind of organic dye compounds as a recording film is provided. The recording and erasure of information are performed by a reversible physical change of the organic dye film substance caused by laser light irradiation. Specifically, data recording is performed by a physical change locally caused by the irradiation of recording laser light, data reproduction is performed by detecting change in intensity of returned light of reproducing laser light having less power than the recording laser light, and data erasure is performed by applying at least once continuous light or pulse light having laser power more than the reproducing laser light and less than the recording laser light. The physical change is a change in shape.

An optical recording medium 10 having a substrate 11, an optically transparent layer 12, and a first dielectric layer 31, a noble metal oxide layer 23, a second dielectric layer 32, a light absorbing layer 22, a third dielectric layer 33 and a reflecting layer 21 which are disposed between the optically transparent layer 12 and the substrate 11, records and reproduces data into and from the optical recording medium 10 by irradiating the optical recording medium 10 with a laser beam 40 from the optically transparent layer 12 side. λ / NA is set to be not longer than 640 nm when λ designates a wavelength of the laser beam 40 and NA designates a numerical aperture of an objective lens, and setting is done as Pw×0.1≦Pr≦Pw×0.5 when Pw and Pr designate recording power and reproducing power of the laser beam 40 respectively, while a recording mark train including recording marks each having a length not larger than λ / 4 NA is recorded and data are reproduced from the recording mark train.

A supporting substrate 11 and a light-transmitting layer 12, and further between the light-transmitting layer and the supporting substrate 11 a dielectric layer 31, a noble metal oxide layer 23, a dielectric layer 32, a light absorption layer 22 and a dielectric layer 33 in this arranging order when viewed from the light-transmitting layer side are provided. The light absorption layer 22 contains as a main component a material that can be represented by (SbaTe1−a)1−bMAb (wherein MA is an element other than antimony (Sb) and tellurium (Te), 0<a<1 and 0≦b<1), and besides, that is different from an intermetallic compound represented by {(GeTe)c(Sb2Te3)1−c)}dMB1−d (wherein MB is an element other than antimony (Sb), tellurium (Te) and germanium (Ge), c is ⅓, ½ or ⅔, and 0<d≦1).

An optical recording medium 10 of the present invention has a support substrate 11 and a light-transmitting layer 12, and further has a first dielectric layer 31, a noble metal nitride layer 23, a second dielectric layer 32, a light absorption layer 22, a third dielectric layer 33, and a reflection layer 21, all of which are interposed between the light-transmitting layer 12 and the support substrate 11. In the optical recording medium of the present invention, a laser beam 40 is irradiated on the substrate from the light entrance face 12a, to thus locally decompose the noble metal nitride layer 23, so that record marks can be formed by means of resultant bubble pits. In this case, a gas filling the bubble pits, which are to form the record marks, is a chemically-stable nitrogen gas (N2). The risk of this gas oxidizing or corroding other layers is very remote, and high storage reliability can be achieved.

An optical information recording device includes: a section that acquires recording information that should be recorded on an optical information recording medium on which information are recorded by forming a recording mark at a position where an optical beam is focused on and from which the information are reproduced based on the reflectance of the recording mark; a section including at least one or more one-surface beam emission sections that emit a recording beam according to part of the recording information to one surface of the recording medium and focus the beam on a target position to form the recording mark; and an section including at least one or more other-surface beam emission sections that emit an recording beam according to the rest of the recording information to the other surface of the recording medium and focus the beam on a target position to form the recording mark.

An optical information recording and reproducing device 1 irradiates initialization light L1 to an optical information recording medium 100 having a recording layer 101 made of photopolymerization-type photopolymer in advance to bring about the photopolymerization or the photocrosslinking to perform the initialization processing, and condenses a recording light beam L2c having a comparatively strong light intensity to a target position in the recording layer 101 and increases the temperature thereof to transubstantiate the target position to record a recording mark RM at the time of recording information, and condenses a reading light beam L2d having a comparatively weak light intensity to the target position and receives a returned light beam L3 having a sufficient light amount reflected by the recording mark RM at the time of reproducing information, which makes it possible to reliably record the recording mark RM and stably read out the recording mark RM.

An optical recording medium comprises first and second substrates wherebetween there is arranged at least one first photosensitive layer, preferably made of inorganic material. The first photosensitive layer comprises a front face for receiving optical radiation, by means of the second substrate, during data writing and / or reading operations. A first deformable layer, transparent to the optical radiation, is arranged between the first photosensitive layer and the second substrate. The first substrate comprises a patterned front face, so as to form a preferably spiral-shaped groove enabling precise data writing and / or reading to be performed by means of an automatic focusing control and track monitoring system.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a recording medium which makes high densification of information possible, particularly a write-once-read-many optical recording medium having good recording signal characteristics to a wide range of recording powers. The present invention is one to accomplish the above object by providing a recording medium having a recording layer, whereby recording is carried out by heating the recording layer, characterized in that the recording layer contains a substance A which decomposes at a temperature which the recording layer reaches when heated for recording, and a substance B which does not undergo a chemical reaction or phase change at a temperature which the recording layer reaches when heated for recording.

An information recording medium (21) of the optical information reproduction device of the present invention includes a recording unit (3) capable of recording information three-dimensionally and provided with a track, and information is recorded by forming a plurality of recording marks along the track of the recording unit by a mark length recording method. When the track direction of the recording marks is assumed to be their longitudinal direction and the direction perpendicular to the track direction is assumed to be their lateral direction, with the present invention, for recording marks located substantially in the same plane, the total area of elongated recording marks, whose longitudinal length is greater than their lateral length, is greater than the total area of recording marks having other than elongated shapes. The optical information reproduction device of the present invention includes a first light source (20a) for emitting a reproduction light (22b) having a wavelength λ1, an objective lens (6) for focusing the reproduction light on the recording unit, and a first photodetector (19a) for detecting a reproduction signal from the reflected light from the recording unit. The focused reproduction light includes as its main component a polarized light component that is polarized perpendicular to the track direction. Also, the recording unit has a track pitch of no more than 1.3 times the wavelength λ1 of the reproduction light.

An embodiment of the present invention includes rotating an integrated disc formed by temporarily fixing an initialization reference plate to an uninitialized optical disc that is an optical disc to be irradiated with a light beam of light having a predetermined or higher intensity to record information as a recording mark. The initialization reference plate has a reference part that reflects at least a part of a servo light beam of servo light intended for servo control. The reference part contains information that indicates the position of a track of the optical disc for the recording mark to be formed on, in the form of a track of pit-and-projection pattern.

A recording mark train is formed in an optical recording medium including a noble metal oxide layer by decomposing a noble metal oxide and deforming the noble metal oxide layer. Noble metal particles are irreversibly deposit in the noble metal oxide layer formed with the recording mark train and a laser beam for reproducing data is irradiated onto the thus deposited noble metal particles, thereby reading the recording mark train. The recording mark train includes at least one recording mark having a length shorter than 0.37λ / NA wherein λ is the wavelength of the laser beam and NA is an optical system for irradiating the laser beam. According to the present invention, in the case of recording and reproducing a recording mark having a size smaller than the resolution limit or a recording mark having a size equal to or larger than the resolution limit but close to the resolution limit in this manner, a high reproduction output can be obtained and a high reproduction durability can be achieved for each of the all recording marks in the recording mark train.

An optical disk apparatus appropriately adjusts the optical paths of a reference light beam and information light beam in an optical path forming section of an optical pickup, condenses the reference light beam and information light beam using an objective lens, and performs position control of the objective lens in the focusing and tracking directions so as to focus the reference light beam onto a reference track in a target mark layer, thereby focusing the focal point of the information light beam condensed by the objective lens onto a target track TG in the target mark layer.

There is disclosed a minute structure including a sulfur compound and a silicon oxide. There is also disclosed a write-once information recording medium including a substrate and a recording layer formed of a mixed inorganic material and deposited on the substrate, wherein the mixed inorganic material contains a sulfur compound and a silicon oxide.

An optical recording medium including: a substrate having a surface on which grooves are concentrically or spirally formed, and a recording layer which is formed on the surface of the substrate and contains a dye, the recording layer being irradiated with a laser beam to record or reproduce information, wherein a region of the substrate corresponding to a recording pit forming region is transformed into a convex form or a concave form by irradiating the recording layer with the laser beam to form the recording pit at the time of recording the information, a maximum height of a convex portion is in the range of from 3 nm to 15 nm or a maximum depth of a concave portion is in the range of from 3 nm to 15 nm, and a void is generated in the recording pit forming region of the recording layer.

A multilayer structure sheet for manufacturing an optical information recording medium having a multilayer structure with a plurality of recording layers is disclosed. The multilayer structure sheet comprises at least one unit structure in which a pressure sensitive adhesive layer, a recording layer, a recording layer support layer having a glass transition temperature higher than that of the pressure sensitive adhesive layer, and a recording layer are laid one on top of another in this order, and a release sheet is attached to an outside of an outermost pressure sensitive adhesive layer.

An optical information recording medium 10 comprises a plurality of recording layers 14, and intermediate layers 15 each provided between the recording layers 14. Each of the recording layers 14 includes polymer binder and dye dispersed in the polymer binder, and the dye is subject to multi-photon absorption of a recording beam RB having a predetermined wavelength and to linear absorption not smaller than 1.5% per recording layer at the predetermined wavelength of the recording beam. When the dye is irradiated with the recording beam and generates heat by linear absorption and multi-photon absorption of the recoding beam RB, the polymer binder undergoes a change of shape by the generated heat, whereby an interface between the recording layer 14 and the intermediate layer undergoes a change of shape to record information.

An optical disc apparatus can make the focus of an information light beam converged by an objective lens agree with a target track of a target mark layer of an optical disc by appropriately predefining the distance between the focus of a servo light beam and that of the information light beam with regard to the direction of the thickness and a radial direction of the optical disc by means of the optical pickup of the apparatus and then operating for focus control and tracking control of the objective lens so as to make focus of the servo light beam converged by the objective lens agree with a reference track of a reference mark layer.

An optical information recording medium 10 comprises a plurality of recording layers 14 and intermediate layers 15 each provided between the recording layers 14. Each of the recording layers 14 includes a polymer binder and dye dispersed in the polymer binder, and a thickness of each recording layer is equal to or greater than 50 nm. A first interface (near-side interface 18) is formed between a recording layer 14 and an intermediate layer 15 that is adjacent to the recording layer 14 on one side of the recording layer 14 in a thickness direction of the recording layer 14, and a second interface (far-side interface 19) is formed between the recording layer 14 and an intermediate layer 15 that is adjacent to the recording layer 14 on the other side of the recording layer 14 in the thickness direction of the recording layer 14. When the dye is irradiated with a recording beam and generates heat by absorption of the recording beam, the polymer binder undergoes a change in shape by the generated heat, so that at least one of the first interface and the second interface undergoes a change in shape and sticks out toward the intermediate layer 15 to form a protrusion, whereby information is recorded in the optical information recording medium 10.

A super-resolution information recording medium, a recording / reproducing apparatus, and a recording / reproducing method uses an information recording medium provides a super-resolution effect by fluid bubbles. The fluid bubbles are formed in at least a portion of the medium by a light beam radiated to reproduce a signal from the information recording medium. Accordingly, the super-resolution information recording medium has improved optical characteristics, so that better recording / reproduction is possible.

An optical recording medium includes a laminated body in which at least a dielectric layer 6 is interposed between a recording layer 7 and a light absorbing layer 5, the optical recording medium being constructed so that data recorded by a recording mark train including recording marks whose lengths are less than the resolution limit are reproduced. The optical recording medium has reflectance of 20 to 80% and a laser beam is irradiated at a power density of 5.6×108 to 1.2×1010 W / m2 to reproduce the recorded data.

When an optical disc apparatus reproduces information from an optical disc, it converges a reading light beam emitted from an LED to substantially collimated light and projects it to the optical disc to cause it to be reflected by reflection surface thereof so as to make it become a reading reflected light beam. Then, the apparatus converges the reading reflected light beam by a mark layer selection lens, detects the reading reflected light beam passing through the target position by a detection region located at the confocal point of the target position and generates a detection signal. Subsequently, the apparatus recognizes the presence or absence of a recording mark based on the detection signal to reproduce the information. Thus, the apparatus can detect the state of the reading reflected light beam observed when it passes the target position and can recognize the presence or absence of a recording mark.

An optical information recording method of recording information three-dimensionally by irradiating a laser light beam onto a medium having a servo information plane on which address information and / or servo information is recorded, is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: dividing a laser light beam from one laser light source into laser light beams, the beam including a first light beam for reading the information, and a second light beam for recording information onto the recording medium; irradiating the first light beam onto the servo information plane to read the information from reflected light of the first light beam to read the information in which optical axes of the first light beam and second light beam are arranged coaxially; and irradiating the second light beam based on the read information to be focused onto a position in a depth direction perpendicular to a horizontal direction of the recording medium.

An optical information recording device includes a semiconductor laser for emitting laser light, a light irradiation section for collecting the laser light and irradiating an optical information recording medium with the laser light, and a laser controller for supplying the semiconductor laser with a laser drive current wave in pulse form. The laser drive current wave has an oscillation current value that causes a relaxation oscillation of the semiconductor laser.

An embodiment of the present invention includes rotating an integrated disc formed by temporarily fixing an initialization reference plate to an uninitialized optical disc that is an optical disc to be irradiated with a light beam of light having a predetermined or higher intensity to record information as a recording mark. The initialization reference plate has a reference part that reflects at least a part of a servo light beam of servo light intended for servo control. The reference part contains information that indicates the position of a track of the optical disc for the recording mark to be formed on, in the form of a track of pit-and-projection pattern.

Disclosed is an optical information recording medium that can improve recording rate. Recording marks (RMs) of cavities are formed by gasifying a two photon absorbing material by a two photon absorption reaction which is one embodiment of a photoreaction upon exposure to recording light beams (L1) as a recording light collected in recording information. A recording layer (101) reproduces the information based on returned light beams (L3) that are obtained by modulating reading light beams (L2), which have been applied as predetermined reading light in reproducing the information, depending upon the presence or absence of the recording mark (RM). The recording layer (101) is formed of a material comprising two photon absorbing particles of metallic fine particles (MN), to which a two photonabsorbing material has been coordinated, dispersed in a binder resin for constituting the recording layer (101), whereby the two photon absorbing material having two photon absorbing properties as amaterial to be gasified is disposed around the metallic fine particles (MN) dispersed in the binder resin.

An optical pickup includes: a light source that emits first light; an objective lens that condenses the first light and allows it to irradiate a track having formed therein a recording mark for intercepting the first light in a uniform recording layer of an optical information recording medium; and a light receiving section that receives transmitted light which has transmitted through the track.

The present invention provides an optical information recording medium including a substrate with an on-groove and an in-groove, having successively disposed thereon a dye recording layer and a transparent sheet, wherein a width of the on-groove ranges from 50 to 140 nm, and a barrier layer is formed between the recording layer and the transparent sheet. The invention also provides an optical information recording method including irradiating the optical information recording medium with laser light from the side of the medium provided with a cover layer to form a void at a signal pit portion in the dye recording layer and thereby carrying out recording of information as well as an optical information recording medium on which information has been recorded by the method.