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公开(公告)号:RU2190882C2
公开(公告)日:2002-10-10
申请号:RU97116835
申请日:1996-02-01
Applicant: IBM
Inventor: LATTA MILTON RASSELL , ROZEN KHAL DZHERVIS , RUBIN KURT ALLAN , TANG VEJD VAI-CHUNG
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公开(公告)号:DE69426660T2
公开(公告)日:2001-07-12
申请号:DE69426660
申请日:1994-06-27
Applicant: IBM
Inventor: IMAINO WAYNE ISAMI , ROSEN HAL JERVIS , RUBIN KURT ALLAN , STRAND TIMOTHY CARL
Abstract: The optical data storage system comprises an optical medium comprising two spaced-apart substrates having the same material thickness, each substrate having a data layer. At least one of the substrates has a data layer which is at least partially transmissive. A light source is located near a first one of the substrates. A device directs light from the source to the medium, and includes a device for focusing the light to a discrete number of focusing positions. Each position defines an optical path between the light source and a corresponding one of the data layers. Each of the two optical paths includes a passage through substrate material having a total thickness equal to three substrate thicknesses.
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公开(公告)号:DE69511730T2
公开(公告)日:2000-04-06
申请号:DE69511730
申请日:1995-12-07
Applicant: IBM
Inventor: KULAKOWSKI JOHN EDWARD , MCDOWELL JUDSON ALLEN , RUBIN KURT ALLAN
IPC: G11B7/00 , G11B7/0045 , G11B7/0055 , G11B7/007 , G11B7/125 , G11B11/105 , G11B20/18 , G11B7/013 , G11B20/12
Abstract: The present invention provides efficient management of calibration and spare sectors on a banded optical write-once, read-many (WORM) disk. A portion of each band on the disk includes a user data area and a reserved area. Sectors in the reserved area are usable either as spare sectors, replacing defective sectors in the user area, or as calibration sectors, for use when the laser write-power level is calibrated. Sectors preferably are used for sparing from one end of the reserved area while sectors are used for calibration from the opposite end. A common overflow reserved area can also be provided for use if all of the sectors in one or more primary reserved areas associated with any of the bands have been exhausted.
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公开(公告)号:CA2271540C
公开(公告)日:1999-11-30
申请号:CA2271540
申请日:1992-04-15
Applicant: IBM
Inventor: STRAND TIMOTHY CARL , ROSEN HAL JERVIS , BEST MARGARET EVANS , RUBIN KURT ALLAN
IPC: G02B7/28 , G02B27/00 , G11B20060101 , G11B7/00 , G11B7/0037 , G11B7/004 , G11B7/005 , G11B7/0055 , G11B7/007 , G11B7/013 , G11B7/085 , G11B7/09 , G11B7/12 , G11B7/125 , G11B7/135 , G11B7/1353 , G11B7/1381 , G11B7/1392 , G11B7/14 , G11B7/24 , G11B7/24047 , G11B7/2405 , G11B7/24085 , G11B7/241 , G11B7/242 , G11B7/243 , G11B7/253 , G11B7/254 , G11B7/257 , G11B11/10 , G11B11/105 , G11B13/00 , G11B19/12 , G11B20/12 , G11B27/00
Abstract: An optical data storage system comprises a multiple data surface medium and optical head. The medium comprises a plurality of substrates separated by a light transmissive medium. Data surfaces are located on the substrate surfaces which lie adjacent a light transmissive medium. The data surfaces are substantially light transmissive. The optical head includes an aberration compensator to allow the head to focus onto the different data surfaces and a filter to screen out unwanted reflected light.
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公开(公告)号:DE69511730D1
公开(公告)日:1999-09-30
申请号:DE69511730
申请日:1995-12-07
Applicant: IBM
Inventor: KULAKOWSKI JOHN EDWARD , MCDOWELL JUDSON ALLEN , RUBIN KURT ALLAN
IPC: G11B7/00 , G11B7/0045 , G11B7/0055 , G11B7/007 , G11B7/125 , G11B11/105 , G11B20/18 , G11B7/013 , G11B20/12
Abstract: The present invention provides efficient management of calibration and spare sectors on a banded optical write-once, read-many (WORM) disk. A portion of each band on the disk includes a user data area and a reserved area. Sectors in the reserved area are usable either as spare sectors, replacing defective sectors in the user area, or as calibration sectors, for use when the laser write-power level is calibrated. Sectors preferably are used for sparing from one end of the reserved area while sectors are used for calibration from the opposite end. A common overflow reserved area can also be provided for use if all of the sectors in one or more primary reserved areas associated with any of the bands have been exhausted.
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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
Inventor: TANG WADE WAI-CHUNG , RUBIN KURT ALLAN , ROSEN HAL JERVIS , IMAINO WAYNE ISAMI
IPC: G11B7/0045 , G11B7/243 , G11B7/257 , G11B7/24 , G11B7/09
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.
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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
Inventor: LATTA MILTON RUSSELL , ROSEN HAL JERVIS , RUBIN KURT ALLAN , TANG WADE WAI-CHUNG
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.
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公开(公告)号:SG45166A1
公开(公告)日:1998-01-16
申请号:SG1996000850
申请日:1994-12-08
Applicant: IBM
Inventor: IMAINO WAYNE ISAMI , ROSEN HAL JERVIS , RUBIN KURT ALLAN , STRAND TIMOTHY CARL , TANG WADE WAI-CHUNG
Abstract: An optical data storage system comprises a multiple data surface medium (12) and optical head. The medium (12) comprises a plurality of substrates (50, 56, 62, 68, 74) separated by a light transmissive medium (78). Data surfaces (90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104) are located on the substrate surfaces. A layer of a semiconductor material is deposited onto each of the data surfaces. The thickness of the semiconductor layer determines the amount of reflectivity for each of the data surfaces.
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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
Inventor: LATTA MILTON RUSSELL , ROSEN HAL JERVIS , RUBIN KURT ALLAN , TANG WADE WAI-CHUNG
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.
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公开(公告)号:SG43793A1
公开(公告)日:1997-11-14
申请号:SG1996000928
申请日:1994-12-09
Applicant: IBM
Inventor: IMAINO WAYNE ISAMI , ROSEN HAL JERVIS , RUBIN KURT ALLAN , STRAND TIMOTHY CARL , TANG WADE WAI-CHUNG
IPC: B41M5/26 , G11B7/00 , G11B7/004 , G11B7/007 , G11B7/24 , G11B7/244 , G11B7/246 , G11B7/247 , G11B7/248 , G11B7/249 , G11B7/258
Abstract: An optical data storage system comprises a multiple data surface medium and optical head. The medium comprises a plurality of substrates separated by a light transmissive medium. Data surfaces are located on the substrate surfaces. A layer of a dye material is deposited onto each of the data surfaces. The thickness of the dye layer determines the amount of reflectivity for each of the data surfaces.
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