MULTIPLE DATA LAYER OPTICAL DISK DRIVE SYSTEM WITH FIXED ABERRATION CORRECTION AND OPTIMUM INTERLAYER SPACING
    1.
    发明公开
    MULTIPLE DATA LAYER OPTICAL DISK DRIVE SYSTEM WITH FIXED ABERRATION CORRECTION AND OPTIMUM INTERLAYER SPACING 失效
    带之间的距离FIXED像差和舒适层的多层光盘驱动系统

    公开(公告)号:EP0886857A1

    公开(公告)日:1998-12-30

    申请号:EP96901436

    申请日:1996-02-01

    Applicant: IBM

    CPC classification number: G11B7/24 G11B7/005 G11B2007/0013

    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.

    Recording and reproducing device
    3.
    发明专利
    Recording and reproducing device 有权
    记录和复制设备

    公开(公告)号:JP2006004627A

    公开(公告)日:2006-01-05

    申请号:JP2005236852

    申请日:2005-08-17

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical data storage system with which data from any data layer of an optical medium consisting of a plurality of data layers is clearly read. SOLUTION: The optical data storage system suitable to a large capacity storage is composed of the optical medium having a multiple data surface and a driving device including an optical head. A desired data surface is irradiated with laser beams and reflected light is used as a signal by the driving device. When data in a deep data layer is read, since light has to pass through many layers, only a weak signal is obtained. Consequently, signal intensity is difference depending on the data surface. Respective data surface is optimized so that the signal intensity from each data surface becomes nearly equal by using the medium having a coated dielectric reflecting layer and by suitably selecting the coating material and its thickness. In the preferable embodiment, semiconductor material is stuck onto each data surface and the reflecting quantity is decided by the thickness. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

    Abstract translation: 要解决的问题:提供一种光学数据存储系统,其中清楚地读取由多个数据层组成的光学介质的任何数据层的数据。 解决方案:适用于大容量存储器的光学数据存储系统由具有多个数据表面的光学介质和包括光学头的驱动装置组成。 用激光束照射期望的数据表面,并且通过驱动装置将反射光用作信号。 当读取深度数据层中的数据时,由于光必须通过许多层,所以仅获得弱信号。 因此,信号强度根据数据表面而不同。 优化各个数据表面,使得通过使用具有涂覆的电介质反射层的介质和通过适当选择涂层材料及其厚度,来自每个数据表面的信号强度几乎相等。 在优选实施例中,将半导体材料粘贴到每个数据表面上,并且反射量由厚度决定。 版权所有(C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

    OPTICAL DATA STORAGE MEDIUM
    4.
    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:JP2001134985A

    公开(公告)日:2001-05-18

    申请号:JP2000317832

    申请日:2000-10-18

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical data storage system with which even data from any data layer of an optical medium consisting of plural data is clearly read. SOLUTION: The optical data storage system suitable to a large capacity of storage is composed of the optical medium having a multiple data surface and a driving device including an optical head. A desired data surface is irradiated with laser beams and reflected light is used as a signal by the driving device. When data in a deep data layer is read, since light has to pass through many layers, a weak signal only is obtained. Consequently, signal intensity is difference depending on the data surface. Respective data surface is optimized so that the signal intensity from each data surface becomes nearly equal by using the medium having a coated dielectric reflecting layer and by suitably selecting the coating material and its thickness. In the preferable embodiment, semiconductor material is stuck onto each data surface and the reflecting quantity is decided by the thickness.

    OPTICAL DISK, AND OPTICAL DATA MEMORY SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:JPH10116441A

    公开(公告)日:1998-05-06

    申请号:JP12253097

    申请日:1997-05-13

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical data memory system which uses an optical medium having plural recording layers. SOLUTION: The substrate supports recording stacks 90, 92 of plural layers which are spatially separated, and the stacks contain recording layers 53, 64 comprising reversible or rewritable phase transition material in an active state. The recording stack 90 nearest to the substrate where laser light irradiates the surface 49 contains a reverse-writing type reversible phase transition material, namely a phase transition material which having an amorphous initiating phase in which recording is done by heating with a laser beam to change the data region into a crystalline phase. The first recording layer 53 is in contact with dielectric layers 51, 55. These dielectric layers have a higher refractive index than that of the adjacent recording layer and act as optical interference thin film so that these layers give an optical interference effect to enhance the light in the recording stack. These optical interference thin films do not absorb light so that the laser light can be focused on the recording layer in the recording stack 92.

    OPTICAL DATA STORAGE SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE WRITE-ONCE PHASE-CHANGE RECORDING LAYERS

    公开(公告)号:CA2220879C

    公开(公告)日:2002-04-02

    申请号:CA2220879

    申请日:1996-03-08

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: An optical disk drive (10) uses an optical disk (12) with spatially separate d multiple phase-change WORM recording layers (51, 66). 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 (90, 92), each stack including an active recording layer of phase- change WORM material. The disk is either an air-gap (78) structure wherein each recording stack is supported on a separate substrate (50, 56) and the substrates (50, 56) are separated by an air-gap (78), or a solid structure wherein a solid light transmissive spacer layer (22) separates the recording stacks (90, 92). Each of the recording stacks (90, 92) located between the substrate (50) on which the laser light is incident and the farthest recordi ng stack includes an active phase-change recording layer (51) and an optical interference film (53) in contact with the recording layer (51). The recordi ng layer (51) 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. T he optical interference film (53) in contact with the recording layer (51) has a high index ofrefraction relative to the adjacent recording layer (51) and spacer (122) to increase the optical interference effect in the recording stack (90). The optical interference film (53) optimizes the contrast, reflectivity and transmissivitzy of the recording stack. The optical interference film (53) has low absoprtion so that laser light can pass throu gh it to focus on a farther recording layer (66). This allows the farther recording layers (66) to be written using reasonable laser power.

    Magnetic disk stack having laser-bump identifiers on magnetic disks

    公开(公告)号:SG77155A1

    公开(公告)日:2000-12-19

    申请号:SG1998000080

    申请日:1998-01-10

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A magnetic disk with nonmagnetic information encoded under, in or above the magnetic layer of the disk is described along with the disk drive using the magnetic disks. The information may be stored as a series of laser-written marks (e.g., bumps, oxidized spots or spots with altered reflectivity) upon the surface(s) of each disk of the disk stack. The set of marks may be a series of laser bumps which serve a dual purpose as a landing zone or contact start/stop (CSS) zone for the slider and as encoded identifying information. During the manufacturing process for disk drives containing the disks, each disk's identifier can be read using outboard equipment such as an HRF tester or by means contained in the drive itself. Each disk identifier can then be stored magnetically in a special region of the hard disk reserved for use by the drive and/or within the flash memory of the hard drive. The drive can then communicate the identifier(s) to a host computer using the conventional communication hardware and firmware. In this way selected information such as the origin, batch number, date of manufacture, serial number, etc. of any disk can be obtained when needed as, for example, as part of failure analysis.

    8.
    发明专利
    未知

    公开(公告)号:AT197652T

    公开(公告)日:2000-12-15

    申请号:AT96901436

    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.

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