Abstract: The present invention provides a high level optical recording material which is capable of recording and reading by a blue laser with a short wavelength. An optical recording material comprises an organic dye compound A whose absorption maximum wavelength (?max) is not less than 340 nm and not more than 440 nm and a metal-complex compound B whose absorption maximum wavelength (?max) is not less than 500 nm and not more than 900 nm, the content of the organic dye compound A is higher than the content of the metal-complex compound B, and light resistance x determined by a predetermined method is not less than 30%.

Abstract: An optical recording medium including two recording layers, each containing an organic dye includes: a first disk substrate formed by laminating a first recording layer and a translucent intermediate layer sequentially on a first transparent substrate made of polycarbonate or the like; and a second disk substrate formed by laminating a reflective layer, a second recording layer, and an interface layer sequentially on a second substrate. The first and the second disk substrates are laminated with a transparent adhesive layer interposed therebetween in a manner that the translucent intermediate layer faces the interface layer. A reflectivity (R1) at a portion of a recording mark formed on any of the first and the second recording layers becomes higher than a reflectivity (R0) at a portion on the recording layer where the recording mark is not formed (R1>R0).

Abstract: An optical information-recording medium, which is provided with a substrate and a light-absorbing layer formed of a dye material on the substrate, includes a user information area in which a concave/convex pattern including spiral-shaped or concentric grooves are formed, and BCA which is provided on an inner circumferential side of the user information area and in which information is recorded with a bar code, wherein a concave/convex pattern, which is different from the concave/convex pattern in the user information area, is formed in BCA. With this construction, an optical information-recording medium, on which BCA information is reproduced without performing any tracking, is provided, wherein a BCA reproduced signal having a satisfactory signal quality is obtained from BCA.

Abstract: An information recording method allows optical information having a recording mark length smaller than a spot diameter of laser light to be recorded on an optical recording medium having a recording layer, at high density by laser light pulse application. The information recording method has: a power calibration step of determining a recording power for recording a signal having a predetermined signal length in the recording layer using the laser light; and a complementing step of complementing, based on the recording power determined in the power calibration step, a recording power for recording a signal having a signal length equal to or less than ½ of the spot diameter of the laser light in the recording layer using the laser light. In the information recording method, for example, an extremely small mark, such as a 2T signal, can be precisely formed.