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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for initializing an optical recording medium, cable of reducing the unevenness in the initialization due to optical interference generated in the initialization, without deteriorating the information recording/ reproducing signal characteristic of a recording layer, in the recording medium having a plurality of optical recording layers. SOLUTION: In initializing the optical recording medium in which at least a first optical recording layer 16 and a second of optical recording layer 12 are stacked on a substrate 11 from the irradiation side with light through an intermediate layer 17, the material constituting the intermediate layer 17 has sufficient transmittance for the wavelength of recording/reproducing light LTR for the optical recording medium, and includes absorbance for the wavelength of initialization light LTI. In the process in which the initialization is performed by irradiating the first optical recording layer 16 with the initialization light LTI, the initialization is performed using a laser beam, as the initialization light, having a wavelength in the range of from 200 nm to 400 nm. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical recording medium that can increase capacity by enlarging a signal area, and a method of producing the optical recording medium.SOLUTION: An optical recording medium includes a substrate, an information layer, and a light transmission layer. A signal area, where the information layer is irradiated with light through the light transmission layer to record and/or reproduce an information signal, extends to a position away by 1.0 mm or more and less than 1.5 mm from the outer peripheral end of the optical recording medium.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a recording layer which can improve the recording density and can also exploit the effect of an additive for improving the recording sensitivity, and an optical information recording medium including the same.SOLUTION: An optical information recording medium includes a recording layer that foams by absorption of light and can form a cavity as a recording mark. The recording layer includes cellulose nitrate and an additive that absorbs light to generate heat.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain a reproduction technique by which signal reproduction can be executed with an excellent SNR even when a reflectance difference between a formed part and a non-formed part of a recording mark is low.SOLUTION: For example, p-polarized light and s-polarized light are radiated on a recording layer of an optical recording medium so that respective radiation spots have a preceding-succeeding relationship, the p-polarized light and the s-polarized light having passed via the recording layer are overlapped, and the overlapped light is received via a polarizing plate. When, for example, one of the p-polarized light and s-polarized light is positioned on a mark, and the other is positioned at a non-formed part of the mark, an optical path difference (phase difference) is generated between the p-polarized light and the s-polarized light, so that a polarization direction of the overlapped light varies. On the other hand, when both of the p-polarized light and the s-polarized light are positioned on the formed part or the non-formed part of the mark, the polarization direction does not vary. Such variation in the polarization direction is detected as change in reception light amount by the polarizing plate so as to enable signal reproduction.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve recording characteristics of an optical recording medium for forming a hole mark on a bulk recording layer.SOLUTION: A recording layer is formed by an organic material (thermoplastic resin and thermosetting resin) having an oxygen element ratio of 9.1% or more. For example, the material is polyethersulfone, polyimide, polyethylene and the like. Alternatively, a recording layer is formed by a material obtained by adding a low-molecular-weight compound into a resin in which the oxygen element ratio after mixing is 9.1% or more.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical information recording method and an optical information recording medium that can improve a recording rate, and an information reproducing device, an optical information reproducing method and an optical information recording and reproducing device that can improve reproducing characteristics of the optical information recording medium. SOLUTION: A recording mark which is formed with a void is formed by evaporating two-photon absorption material by two-photon absorption reaction, which is one aspect of photoreaction with respect to a recording light beam as a recording light collected upon recording of information. Further, a recording layer reproduces the information based on a return light beam which is formed by modulating a read light beam which is radiated as a predetermined read light upon reproduction of the information according to the presence of the recording mark. The recording layer is formed by distributing two-photon absorption particles where the two-photon absorption material is disposed in metal fine particles MN, to a binder resin which forms the recording layer, thereby the two-photon absorption material having two-photon absorption characteristics as vaporizing material is arranged near the metal fine particles MN which are distributed in the binder resin. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reproduction-only region and a recording-available region, which are monolayers, in a blue ray disk. SOLUTION: In an optical disk 100, a recording track 101 which constitutes a ROM region and mirror parts 103 which interrupt the pit strings 102 of the recording tracks 101 in the tangential direction are formed on the signal surface of the one side of the optical disk 100. The mirror parts 103 are dispersively arranged on the recording and reproducing regions of the optical disk 100, and the length of each mirror part 103 is about 1 mm in a blue ray disk so that a spot may continuously trace the pit string on the track even if tracking servo is not applied. A recording capacity can be ensured by intermittently locating the mirror parts 103 at a plurality of places. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To measure in-plane and vertical birefringence even in relation to a light transmission layer having an unknown principal axis direction in the in-plane birefringence by correctly grasping it. SOLUTION: A laser beam with its polarization direction aligned by a polarizer is obliquely irradiated on a measurement point while the light transmission layer is rotated around the measurement point, reflected light is detected through a crossed Nicols-based optical system, and the principal axis direction in in-plane directions of a refractive index ellipsoid is found based on the light intensity variation of the reflected light. Next, the light transmission layer is so fixed that the laser beam is irradiated from a direction crossing at 45° with respect to the principal axis direction, the laser beam with its polarization direction aligned is obliquely irradiated on the measurement point through a quarter-wave plate, and the in-plane and vertical birefringence of the light transmission layer is measured by detecting the phase difference of the reflected light. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the light intensity of a laser beam required to form a recording mark. SOLUTION: A recording layer 101 of an optical information recording medium 100 contains a two-photon absorbing material. This two-photon absorbing material is a metal complex in which one or more molecules coordinate with a metal atom, and the material performs one-photon absorption of a recording light beam L1 by a change of state due to two-photon absorption upon irradiation with the recording light beam L1 which is recording light for information recording, and forms a recording mark by heat generation in response to the one-photon absorption. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical recording method and optical recording apparatus which form a recording mark of an appropriate shape at an appropriate location of a medium by using a mode locked laser. SOLUTION: A recording mark G of an appropriate shape (length in inside direction X and length in thickness direction Z of a recording surface are L1 and L2 respectively) is formed at an appropriate location of a recording medium 10 by irradiating a location (50-70 (nm) of Fig.4) of a recording medium 10 which is desired to be irradiated with a laser light of large intensity, with the laser light of large intensity, and irradiating locations (40-50 (nm) and 70-80 (nm) of FIg.4) of the recording medium 10 which is desired to be irradiated with a laser light of small intensity, with the laser light of small intensity, since the laser light is emitted at a predetermined time interval from the mode locked laser 2 (ST302), the amplitude of a pulse of an emitted laser light is modulated at a designated time interval by semiconductor optical amplifier 3 (ST303), and irradiates the rotating recording medium 10 (ST304). COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT