42.
    发明专利
    未知

    公开(公告)号:BR9609637A

    公开(公告)日:1999-02-17

    申请号:BR9609637

    申请日:1996-03-08

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: An optical disk drive uses an optical disk with spatially separated multiple phase-change WORM recording layers. The optical disk has a light transmissive substrate onto which the laser light is incident. The substrate supports at least two spatially separated multi-film recording stacks, each stack including an active recording layer of phase-change WORM material. The disk is either an air-gap structure wherein each recording stack is supported on a separate substrate and the substrates are separated by an air-gap, or a solid structure wherein a solid light transmissive spacer layer separates the recording stacks. Each of the recording stacks located between the substrate on which the laser light is incident and the farthest recording stack includes an active phase-change recording layer and an optical interference film in contact with the recording layer. The recording layer is made sufficiently thin to have good light transmissivity, but at this low thickness, without any other layers, is not sufficiently reflective to act as a recording layer with suitable servo and recording performance. The optical interference film in contact with the recording layer has a high index of refraction relative to the adjacent recording layer and spacer to increase the optical interference effect in the recording stack. The optical interference film optimizes the contrast, reflectivity and transmissivity of the recording stack. The optical interference film has low absorption so that laser light can pass through it to focus on a farther recording layer. This allows the farther recording layers to be written using reasonable laser power.

    MULTIPLE DATA LAYER OPTICAL DISK DRIVE SYSTEM WITH FIXED ABERRATION CORRECTION AND OPTIMUM INTERLAYER SPACING

    公开(公告)号:HU9801981A2

    公开(公告)日:1998-12-28

    申请号:HU9801981

    申请日:1996-02-01

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A multiple data layer optical disk drive system has fixed aberration correction and uses a disk with maximum interlayer spacing for reduced interlayer crosstalk. In one embodiment the multiple data layer disk has a substrate with a thickness that is reduced by approximately one-half the thickness of the spacer layer that separates the first and last data layers. The disk is designed to operate with a lens that has spherical aberration correction to compensate for the thickness of a conventional single data layer disk. This allows the disk drive to handle multiple data layer disks as well as to be backward compatible and thus handle conventional single data layer disks. The thickness of the substrate material plus one-half the thickness of the spacer layer material (which may have a different index of refraction than the substrate material) is equivalent, for purposes of spherical aberration correction, to the thickness of the substrate material used in the conventional single data layer disk. The focused spot with minimum spherical aberration is thus located at the middle of the spacer layer rather than on the first data layer. The spacer layer thickness is selected so that when the focused spot is located on either the first or last data layer there is some deliberately designed spherical aberration, although an amount that is acceptable. As a result the thickness of the spacer layer can be significantly increased to thereby reduce interlayer crosstalk. In another embodiment that substrate thickness and spacer layer thickness are selected and then the lens is corrected for spherical aberration corresponding to the thickness of substrate material plus one-half the thickness of spacer layer material.

    DISK DRIVE FOR AN OPTICAL DISK WITH MULTIPLE LAYERS OF DATA, PREDETERMINED ABERRATION CORRECTION AND OPTIMUM INTERLAYER DISTANCE

    公开(公告)号:PL322062A1

    公开(公告)日:1998-01-05

    申请号:PL32206296

    申请日:1996-02-01

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A multiple data layer optical disk drive system has fixed aberration correction and uses a disk with maximum interlayer spacing for reduced interlayer crosstalk. In one embodiment the multiple data layer disk has a substrate with a thickness that is reduced by approximately one-half the thickness of the spacer layer that separates the first and last data layers. The disk is designed to operate with a lens that has spherical aberration correction to compensate for the thickness of a conventional single data layer disk. This allows the disk drive to handle multiple data layer disks as well as to be backward compatible and thus handle conventional single data layer disks. The thickness of the substrate material plus one-half the thickness of the spacer layer material (which may have a different index of refraction than the substrate material) is equivalent, for purposes of spherical aberration correction, to the thickness of the substrate material used in the conventional single data layer disk. The focused spot with minimum spherical aberration is thus located at the middle of the spacer layer rather than on the first data layer. The spacer layer thickness is selected so that when the focused spot is located on either the first or last data layer there is some deliberately designed spherical aberration, although an amount that is acceptable. As a result the thickness of the spacer layer can be significantly increased to thereby reduce interlayer crosstalk. In another embodiment that substrate thickness and spacer layer thickness are selected and then the lens is corrected for spherical aberration corresponding to the thickness of substrate material plus one-half the thickness of spacer layer material.

    48.
    发明专利
    未知

    公开(公告)号:DE69719601T2

    公开(公告)日:2003-11-20

    申请号:DE69719601

    申请日:1997-05-22

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A multiple recording layer rewriteable phase-change optical disk (12) and disk drive uses a reverse writing type of reversible phase-change material as the recording layer (53) nearest the incident laser light. The disk has a light-transmissive substrate (50) onto which the laser light is incident. The substrate supports at least two spatially-separated multilayer recording stacks (90, 92), each stack including an active recording layer (53, 64) of reversible or rewriteable phase-change material. The recording stack (90) located nearest the substrate (50) on which the laser light is incident includes a reverse writing type of reversible phase change material, i.e., a phase-change material with an amorphous starting phase that is recorded onto by laser heating that converts data regions to the crystalline phase. This first recording layer (50) has a dielectric layer (51) in contact with it that has a high index of refraction relative to the adjacent recording layer and that acts as an optical interference film to provide a constructive optical interference effect in the recording stack. The optical interference film optimizes the contrast, reflectivity, and transmissivity of the recording stack. The optical interference film is also nonabsorbing so that laser light can pass through it to focus on a recording layer (64) in a farther recording stack (92). This allows the farther recording layer to be written using reasonable laser power.

    MULTIPLE DATA LAYER OPTICAL DISK DRIVE SYSTEM WITH FIXED ABERRATION CORRECTION AND OPTIMUM INTERLAYER SPACING

    公开(公告)号:CA2215323C

    公开(公告)日:2002-03-19

    申请号:CA2215323

    申请日:1996-02-01

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A multiple data layer optical disk drive system has fixed aberration correction and uses a disk with maximum interlayer spacing for reduced interlayer crosstalk. In one embodiment the multiple data layer disk has a substrate with a thickness that is reduced by approximately one-half the thickness of the spacer layer that separates the first and last data layers. The disk is designed to operate with a lens that has spherical aberration correction to compensate for the thickness of a conventional single data lay er disk. This allows the disk drive to handle multiple data layer disks as well as to be backward compatible and thus handle conventional single data layer disks. The thickness of the substrate material plus one-half the thickness o f the spacer layer material (which may have a different index of refraction th an the substrate material) is equivalent, for purposes of spherical aberration correction, to the thickness of the substrate material used in the conventional single data layer disk. The focused spot with minimum spherical aberration is thus located at the middle of the spacer layer rather than one the first data layer. The spacer layer thickness is selected so that when th e focused spot is located on either the first or last data layer there is some deliberately designed spherical aberration, although an amount that is acceptable. As a result the thickness of the spacer layer can be significant ly increased to thereby reduce interlayer crosstalk. In another embodiment the substrate thickness and spacer layer thickness are selected and then the len s is corrected for spherical aberration corresponding to the thickness of substrate material plus one-half the thickness of spacer layer material.

    MULTIPLE DATA LAYER OPTICAL DISK DRIVE SYSTEM WITH FIXED ABERRATION CORRECTION AND OPTIMUM INTERLAYER SPACING

    公开(公告)号:HK1032656A1

    公开(公告)日:2001-07-27

    申请号:HK01101504

    申请日:2001-03-01

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A multiple data layer optical disk drive system has fixed aberration correction and uses a disk with maximum interlayer spacing for reduced interlayer crosstalk. In one embodiment the multiple data layer disk has a substrate with a thickness that is reduced by approximately one-half the thickness of the spacer layer that separates the first and last data layers. The disk is designed to operate with a lens that has spherical aberration correction to compensate for the thickness of a conventional single data layer disk. This allows the disk drive to handle multiple data layer disks as well as to be backward compatible and thus handle conventional single data layer disks. The thickness of the substrate material plus one-half the thickness of the spacer layer material (which may have a different index of refraction than the substrate material) is equivalent, for purposes of spherical aberration correction, to the thickness of the substrate material used in the conventional single data layer disk. The focused spot with minimum spherical aberration is thus located at the middle of the spacer layer rather than on the first data layer. The spacer layer thickness is selected so that when the focused spot is located on either the first or last data layer there is some deliberately designed spherical aberration, although an amount that is acceptable. As a result the thickness of the spacer layer can be significantly increased to thereby reduce interlayer crosstalk. In another embodiment that substrate thickness and spacer layer thickness are selected and then the lens is corrected for spherical aberration corresponding to the thickness of substrate material plus one-half the thickness of spacer layer material.

Patent Agency Ranking