KEYWORDS: Servomechanisms, Near field, Optical discs, Head, Near field optics, Actuators, Solids, Modulation, Modulation transfer functions, Optical storage
We have ever demonstrated an optical disc system with the capacity of 100 Gbyte over and with the user transfer rate of 100 Mbps over, using near-field optics with a solid immersion lens of a 1.8-NA or more. In this paper, we introduce and discuss some technologies toward the removability of a near-field optical disc drive system.
The hemisphere type SIL of KTaO3 that has a high refractive index was developed. NA 1.84 was achieved by the hemisphere SIL of KTaO3 that has a wide thickness tolerance in combination with a high NA aspherical lens of NA 0.77. Huge capacities ROM of 50-100 GB were evaluated by means of KTaO3 hemisphere SIL. The same playback performance as that of LAH79 SIL was confirmed.
KEYWORDS: Near field, Modulation, Near field optics, Signal processing, Photoresist processing, Reflectivity, Scanning electron microscopy, Objectives, Silver, Optical storage
This article will describe a series of experiments we conducted for the purpose of pursuing the resolution limit of the PTM process. Disc samples with different track pitches and different linear densities were prepared through the PTM process. The signal properties of these discs were analyzed with the assistance of a near field readout system. The jitter value was 5.6% at the linear density of 70nm/bit and 0.16μm track pitch, which corresponded to 80GB per 12cm diameter disc. Even at a recording density corresponding to a capacity of 100GB we observed jitter values less than 10%.
For the optical recording channel, a new runlength-limited (RLL) code is proposed, called the 1102PC code, which is a d=1 RLL code with a compact 2-to-3 PCWA-mapping for DC-control that offers a significant performance benefit over traditional soft-decodable d=1, k=7 codes thanks to the reduced frequency of occurrence of the shortest 2T-runs as realized via an r=2 RMTR-constraint; in addition, it still offers a low k-constraint (k=10) and a SISO-complexity much lower than that of 17PP. The 1102PC code has also been evaluated experimentally for near-field optical recording.
We have achieved high density near field readout of a 100 GB capacity (69.5 Gbit/in2) disc by using a solid immersion lens with numerical aperture of 2.05. In order to realize the solid immersion lens wtih numerical aperture of 2.05, the solid immersion lens was made from Bi4Ge3O12 mono-crystal. The refractive index of Bi4Ge3O12 is 2.23 at the wavelegnth of 405 nm. A conventional optical pick-up actuator with the solid immersion lens was used for the near field optical disc system. We confirmed that the near field readout system is promising method of realizing a high density optical disc system.
KEYWORDS: Servomechanisms, Near field, Near field optics, Signal detection, Ferroelectric materials, Mirrors, Sensors, Semiconductor lasers, Head, Gallium nitride
We developed a near field readout system for an optical ROM disc with a GaN laser diode and a 1.4-effective-NA objective lens. We read out a 25 Gbyte optical ROM disc using a gap servo and a tracking servo in the near field read system, and experimentally confirmed an effective NA of 1.4.
To realize high density magneto-optical recording, it is important to suppress the disk noise. As we have reported, UV irradiation before sputtering films on the substrate could suppress the disk noise. But UV irradiation changed the shape of land and groove. We found that it caused poor recording power tolerance, because cross-talk could not be canceled using the phase compensation method. We developed a substrate formed by using a RIE process. Using this RIE-formed substrate, we could suppress the disk noise without UV-irradiation and improve the recording power tolerance.
A mobile magneto-optical disk system with 2 Gbytes user- capacity is proposed. The disk consists of a center aperture detection type of magnetically induced super-resolution medium, a 0.5 mm thickness substrate with 50 mm in diameter, and a newly developed UV curing resin film to keep the disk tilt small even if its surrounding environmental condition changes. The optics contains a blue laser diode of a 406 nm wavelength and an objective lens with a numerical aperture of 0.6. A laser pulsed magnetic field modulation method is employed and it realizes land and groove recording with an effective track pitch of 0.40 micrometers . Practicable system margin values are confirmed at 0.146 micrometers bit density.
We developed a DWDD (Domain Wall Displacement Detection) medium which was applied for an optical disk system with a blue laser diode ((lambda) equals 406 nm) and an objective lens of NA equals 0.60. the layer structure of the medium was modified by taking into account the thermal characteristics of the medium during readout with blue laser. The result of jitter measurement suggested that areal density of over 15 Gbit/inch2 is feasible for the DWDD media with a blue laser.
High and low laser power for overwriting was investigated by measuring bit error rate using exchange-coupled triple-layer films. The experimental results revealed that the overwritable region depends both on the state of the medium before overwriting and on the recording pattern. The overwritable region was found to be the least when random data for (2,7) code modulation are overwritten on the initial interface wall state -- the all written state. A margin of was obtained for the low power even under the severest conditions. A laboratory prototype overwriting drive established that the triple-layer disk is applicable to a practical use with a low error rate and that data can be rewritten in about a half time required by the conventional system.
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