Abstract: An optical disc comprises a first base plate having a surface in which a recess is formed and a multi-layer structure disposed over the surface. The multi-layer structure includes a reflection layer, a recording layer, and a transparent member. The reflection layer is disposed on the surface of the first base plate. The recording layer is formed on the reflection layer for substantially filling an inside of the recess. The transparent member is disposed for covering the recording layer, and is capable of transmitting writing/reading radiation.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical information recording medium comprising a substrate having disposed thereon a recording layer, wherein the recording layer includes a recording dye represented by the following formula (I) or (II): 1

Abstract: An optical information-recording medium which is capable of reducing dependency on the wavelength of a laser beam used in recording and reproducing data, while preventing occurrence of corrosion of a recording film and a crack in a dielectric film. Dielectric films of a recording layer other than a farthest information layer as viewed from the direction of irradiation of the laser beam have thicknesses thereof defined such that when the laser beam is irradiated onto the information layer, a reflectance of the information layer exhibited with respect to a laser beam in a first wavelength region ranging from 370 nm to 380 nm, and a reflectance of the same exhibited with respect to a laser beam in a second wavelength region ranging from 610 nm to 640 nm both assume minimum values relative to reflectances of other laser beams whose wavelengths are outside the first and second wavelength regions.

Abstract: This invention provides a data storage media comprising at least a cyanine-TCNQ complex dye having the structural formula: wherein Q and Q′ denote aromatic or polyaromatic, R1 and R2 are selected from the group consisting of alkyl, arylester, alkoxy, alkylthio, and alkoxythio etc., n represents an integer of 0, 1, 2, and 3, TCNQ-m represents 7,7′,8,8′-tetracyanoquinodimethane or its derivatives, and m is an integer of 1 or 2. The data storage media comprising the cyanine-TCNQ complex dye includes a reflection optical recording media and a non-reflection fluorescent optical recording media suiting the requirement.

Abstract: An optical recording medium comprising a substrate and a recording layer on which recording and readout of information can be carried out by laser.

Abstract: The invention discloses new indolestyryl compounds and their uses for a high-density optical recording medium. The invention uses the new indolestyryl compounds to form the recording layer of a high-density recording medium. The new indolestyryl compounds are easy to prepare and purify, so they are cheaper when comparing to the compounds generally used in high-density optical recording media. The indolestyryl compounds have a maximum absorption for light wavelengths in the range of 500 nanometers to 700 nanometers. The indolestyryl compounds also have high sensitivity and chemical stability toward light and heat. Using the new indolestyryl compounds to form high-density optical recording media can match up with the short-wavelength laser beam for high-density optical recording media and have the advantage of a stable quality.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium achieving stable recording and reading characteristics and having good storage stability including light resistance and heat resistance by preventing colorants contained in a recording layer therein from being decomposed, and also an optical information recording medium that can be individually differentiated from others by outward appearance. The optical information recording medium includes a substrate having successively disposed thereon at least a light-reflective layer, a recording layer on which information is recorded by laser light of a wavelength no longer than 500 nm, and a cover layer containing a UV absorbent that blocks out light of a wavelength no longer than 400 nm and/or a dye that blocks out light of a wavelength no shorter than 500 nm. A second substrate may be disposed opposite to a side of the optical information recording medium that is irradiated with light and may be colored.

Abstract: An optical recording material for binary, multibit or volume data storage is described. The optical recording material comprises: (a) at least one dyestuff selected from polymeric azo dyestuffs and oligomeric azo dyestuffs, the dyestuff changing its spatial arrangement upon irradiation with polarized electromagnetic radiation; and (b) optionally at least one grouping having form anisotropy.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical recording medium including a recording layer 2 and an optical reflection layer 3 formed on a substrate 1. The recording layer 2 contains at least one particular polymethine pigment selected from polymethine pigments having 1 to 4 carbons in the methine main chain, so as to obtain a sufficient recording sensitivity for a red wavelength range of light.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium including a substrate having a groove that has a track pitch of 200 to 400 nm and a depth of 10 to 150 nm, the substrate having successively disposed thereon a light-reflective layer, a recording layer and a cover layer, wherein information is recordable and reproducible by irradiating a laser beam having a wavelength of 500 nm or less from a side of the medium disposed with the cover layer, and the light-reflective layer contains aluminum or an aluminum alloy.

Abstract: In an optical disk for high density recording, for preventing the deformation of recording tracks caused by stress which may develop between the substrate and the recording stacked film formed thereon, a stress-compensation layer having a metal element such as Ti or Cr as a main component is provided. The stress-compensation layer undergoes contraction (tensile stress) to compensate for compression stress which develops in the stacked film during cooling after the thermal expansion of the substrate surface that occurs at the end of film formation. The stress-compensation layer has a pillar-like structure which, starting from the lower face, reaches the upper face of the film.

Abstract: A cyanine compound of formula (I), an optical filter containing the cyanine compound, and an optical recording material containing the cyanine compound which is used to form an optical recording layer of an optical recording medium: 1

Abstract: A high-density optical information recording medium comprising, on a substrate, a recording layer capable of recording information by irradiation of a laser beam at a wavelength of from 380 to 500 nm, wherein the recording layer contains a compound represented by the following general formula (I): where R1 to R6 each represents, independently, a substituent, M represents a metal atom, and n represents an integer of 1 or greater.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an optical recording medium which is excellent in the recording sensitivity and suitable for the high speed recording. Thus, the present invention is an optical recording medium comprising a substrate and a laser-writable and readable recording layer provided thereon, wherein said recording layer contains a chelate dye comprising two or more azo compounds having different structures and a divalent or more metal ion, and said azo compounds are a selected from azo compounds represented by the following general formula (I) and the general formula (II).

Abstract: An optical recording medium having a substrate, and a recording layer provided on the substrate and containing: (a) a formazan metal chelate including a formazan compound and a metal component, (b) a squarylium metal chelate including a squarylium compound and a metal component; and (c) at least one additional dye selected from phthalocyanine compounds and pentamethine cyanine compounds. Alternatively, the recording layer contains (a) a first formazan metal chelate including a first formazan compound and a first metal component and having the maximum absorption wavelength in the range of 500 to 650 nm, (b) a squarylium metal chelate including a squarylium compound and a metal component; and (c) a second formazan metal chelate including a second formazan compound and a second metal component and having the maximum absorption wavelength different from that of the first formazan metal chelate and in the range of 650 to 750 nm.

Abstract: Limited-play optical medium with improved shelf stability are formed from a plurality of layers, including in sequence: (a) a first substrate layer; (b) a data layer; (c) a reflective layer; (d) a reactive layer comprising a dye having a reduced state and an oxidized state and further comprising an oxidized form of a reducing agent effective to convert the dye from the oxidized state to the reduced state, and (e) a second substrate layer. The dye in the reduced state is substantially transparent to light of wavelengths used to read the optical medium, and the dye in the oxidized state absorbs light of wavelengths used to read the optical medium. The reflective metal layer is formed from a metal or metal alloy that is not significantly oxidized by the oxidized form of the reducing agent. For example, the reflective metal layer is suitably formed from silver or gold.

Abstract: A multilayered optical disk having n recording layers is designed in such a manner that the transmittance Ti of the ith layer from a light-incident side satisfies the relationship: ∏ i - l j - i ⁢ T i 2 ≥ n - j + l n when the light is focused on a recording film of the jth layer. By doing so, the recording/reading property of a multilayered medium is improved.

Abstract: A novel optical recording material is provided, which is capable of recording and reading an information signal by utilizing a change in the double refraction caused by a change in the molecular orientation of a side-chain type polymer liquid crystal which has an electrocyclic-reaction-type photochromic compound (or a residue thereof).

Abstract: An optical information-recording medium which contains a dye having at least two chromophores bonded to each other without any conjugated bond intervening between those chromophores.

Abstract: Disclosed are novel trimethine cyanine dyes, light absorbents, light-resistant improvers, and optical recording media which comprise the trimethine cyanine dyes. The cyanine dyes exert satisfactory solubility and heat resistance when used in high-density optical recording media.

Abstract: A high-density readable only optical disk with a large storage capacity includes a substrate with pits, and one or more mask layers with a super resolution near field structure, which are made of a mixture of a dielectric material and metal particles. The optical disk can be obtained without decreasing the wavelength of a laser diode or increasing the numerical aperture of an objective lens.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for making an optically readable media unreadable. The method includes steps of (a) providing the media with an optically activated mechanism that degrades the reflectivity of a surface wherein information is encoded; (b) exposing the media to optical radiation for reading out the information; and, during the step of exposing, (c) initiating the operation of the optically activated mechanism. In this embodiment the step of initiating includes steps of (d) generating singlet oxygen in a layer disposed on the media; and (e) reacting the singlet oxygen with a metal-containing layer for oxidizing the surface of the metal-containing layer, thereby degrading the reflectivity of the surface. In a further aspect the optically activated mechanism causes a defocusing of a readout beam, thereby degrading reflection of the readout beam from a surface wherein information is encoded.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a limited play optical storage media and a method for limiting access to data thereon. This storage media comprises: an optically transparent substrate; a reflective layer; an oxygen penetrable UV coating disposed on a side of the substrate opposite the reflective layer; and a reactive layer disposed between the UV coating and the substrate, the optical storage media having an initial percent reflectivity of about 50% or greater and a subsequent percent reflectivity of about 45% or less.

Abstract: A cyanine dye compound represented by formula (I) shown below, and an optical recording medium having a recording layer which is capable of recording information by laser irradiation and contains the cyanine dye compound. In formula (I), Xp− represents a p-valent anionic tetracyanoquinodimethane compound represented by formula (II): The other symbols in the formulas are defined in the specification.

Abstract: An optical recording medium dye is disclosed.

Abstract: An optical recording medium has a substrate, and a recording layer formed thereon which contains at least one formazan chelate compound of formula (I), (II) or wherein A, B, A′, B′, A1, A2, B1, B2, Z, Z1, Z2, M, p, and n are specified in the specification.

Abstract: This invention provides imin complex dyes for a high-density optical disc recording medium having the following formula (I): wherein Y constitutes oxygen atom, sulfate atom, carbon atom with substitutes (C—R5) or nitrogen atom with substitutes (N—R6); R1 constitutes alkyl group having carbon number one to eighteen with or without substitutes or ether group, p-alkyl benzyl group with or without substitutes; R2, R3, R5, R6, R7 can be same or different groups; and X constitutes halogen atom, ClO4−, BF4−, PF6−, SbF6−, TCNQ−, TCNE−, naphthalenesulfonic acid or organometallic complex.x. The bis-styryl dyes whose spectra maximum absorption in visible light range of wavelength of 300 nm˜800 nm can be used as a high density optical disc recording medium.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium containing a substrate having provided thereon a recording layer capable of recording information by laser beam irradiation, wherein the recording layer contains a dye represented by the following general formula (I): 1

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical information recording medium including a substrate with an on-groove and an in-groove, having successively disposed thereon a dye recording layer and a transparent sheet, wherein a width of the on-groove ranges from 50 to 140 nm, and a barrier layer is formed between the recording layer and the transparent sheet. The invention also provides an optical information recording method including irradiating the optical information recording medium with laser light from the side of the medium provided with a cover layer to form a void at a signal pit portion in the dye recording layer and thereby carrying out recording of information as well as an optical information recording medium on which information has been recorded by the method.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for making an optically readable storage media in which the reading beam passes through a bonding layer configured with a reactive material that transforms from an optically transparent state to an optically opaque state after exposure to a predefined stimulus, thereby inhibiting access to the data encoded on the optically readable storage media. The method includes steps of synthesizing a blocked dye combining the blocked dye with a carrier material curing the resultant combination deblocking the dye to produce a reduced dye in the resultant bonding layer exposing the optically readable storage media with the reactive material in its bonding layer to a predetermined stimulus. In a further aspect of the present invention methods and apparatus are provided for making an optically readable storage media wherein the reading light passes through the bonding layer and the data encoded information is encoded on the L1 substrate.

Abstract: A copy-protected optical medium comprising transient optical state change security materials that demonstrating an optical state change when exposed to the wavelengths of from about about 770 nm to about 830 nm.

Abstract: An information recording medium showing a high light-resistance has a recording layer containing a dye compound having the following formula (I-1) or (I-2): 1

Abstract: A method and system for providing copy-protected optical medium using transient optical state change security materials capable of changing optical state when exposed to a wavelength of about 630 nm to about 660 nm and software code to detect such change in optical state.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical information recording medium including a substrate having successively disposed thereon a light-reflective layer, a recording layer and a cover layer, wherein information can be recorded on and reproduced from the recording layer by irradiating a laser beam from a side at which the cover layer is disposed, and a surface of the light-reflective layer at a side at which the recording layer is disposed has a central surface average roughness SRa of 30 nm or smaller and a number of projections having a height from a reference plane of 50 nm or greater, as determined with an atomic force microscope (AFM), of 30 (number/90 &mgr;m angle) or less.

Abstract: In addition to a cationic dye and at least one substance which functions as a quenching agent, the inventive recording medium contains a stabiliser in order to increase the stability of the optical data storage device, which has a recording layer consisting of such a recording medium. The stabiliser is a phenol with one or more hydroxy groups, which is advantageously present in the recording medium in the form of a phenolate ion and which forms part of the anions for the dye cations. In addition, the recording medium can also contain an anionic, metallo-organic thiolene complex, which replaces a usual quencher and forms another part of the anions for the dye cations.

Abstract: An optical recording medium having a disk-like substrate and a recording layer provided over the substrate and containing at least one organic dye. The substrate has a wobble with a period length PL in the range of 4T to 96T.

Abstract: An optical recording medium having a substrate and at least a recording layer disposed on the substrate, the recording layer comprising at least one squarylium metal chelate compound which comprises a squarylium compound and a metal; and at least one azo metal chelate compound which comprises another metal and an azo compound expressed by the following formula (A-I): where A and B each independently expresses a residue forming one of a) a heterocyclic ring which may comprise a substituent and b) aromatic ring which may comprise a substituent, by combination with corresponding carbon atoms respectively bonded to A or B, and X expresses an active-hydrogen-containing substituent group. An optical recording method, and optical recording device using the same optical recording medium.

Abstract: Optical data carrier comprising a preferably transparent substrate which may, if desired, have previously been coated with one or more reflection layers and to whose surface a light-writeable information layer, if desired one or more reflection layers and if desired a protective layer or a further substrate or a covering layer have been applied, which can be written on and read by means of infrared light, preferably laser light, particularly preferably light having a wavelength in the range 750-800 nm, in particular 770-790 nm, where the information layer comprises a light-absorbent compound and, if desired, a binder, characterized in that at least one cobalt(III) phthalocyanine in which the Co metal centre bears two axial substituents R1 and R2 which represent, independently of one another, CN, SCN, alkoxy or alkylthio is used as light-absorbent compound.

Abstract: A non-resonant two-photon absorbing material is provided, comprising a methine dye undergoing a non-resonant two-photon absorption, in which the methine dye is preferably a cyanine dye, a merocyanine dye or an oxonol dye, and a non-resonant two-photon absorbing material is provided, comprising a non-resonant two-photon absorbing compound undergoing non-resonant two-photon absorption in the intermolecular aggregation state.

Abstract: Optical recording media comprising a base (1), a recording layer (2) formed thereon, and a reflecting layer (3) formed on the layer (2), wherein the recording layer (2) contains at least one kind of specified dyes selected from among polymethine dyes having 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the main methine chain to secure a sufficient recording sensitivity to a light in the red wavelength region.

Abstract: An optical data storage medium containing a preferably transparent substrate which has optionally already been coated with one or more reflecting layers and onto the surface of which a photorecordable information layer, optionally one or more reflecting layers, and optionally a protective layer or an additional substrate or a top layer are applied, which data storage medium can be recorded on and read using blue or red light, preferably laser light, wherein the information layer contains a light-absorbing compound and optionally a binder, characterized in that at least one diaza hemicyanine dye is used as the light-absorbing compound.

Abstract: An optical recording medium provided on a substrate with a recording layer, said recording layer comprising at least one kind of the trimethine-cyanine dye and an additive, wherein said the additive of recording layer selectively comprises the dye selected from the group consisting of the chemical compounds represented by the following general formula [10], [11], [12], and [13]: “EDG” represents any electron-withdrawing substituted group such as alkylamino or anino group.

Abstract: A recordable optical recording medium, particularly a recordable high-density optical recording medium is disclosed. The optical recording medium comprises a substrate and a recording layer formed on said substrate, wherein said recording layer contains at least one laser beam absorbing dyes of formula (I): wherein Q is phenyl or naphthyl substituted by C1-4alkoxy; R1 and R2, independently of each other, are C1-8alkyl; Y is hydrogen or C1-4alkoxy; and X− is an anion.

Abstract: An information-recording medium comprising a substrate having thereon a recording layer capable of recording information with laser light, said recording layer containing: at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following general formulae (I-1), (I-2), (I-3) and (I-4); and an organic dye other than said compounds. The symbols in the above formulae are defined in the specification.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a singly recordable optical data medium using Co-phthalocyanine complexes of the formula (I) in which the groups are defined herein, as light-absorbing compounds in the information layer of optical data media, in which information layer is recordable using light, particularly for CD-R, and the application of the above-mentioned compounds to a polymer substrate, particularly polycarbonate, by spin coating.

Abstract: An optical recording medium (10) is adapted such that information is recorded by forming recording marks on a recording layer (12) that covers grooves (16) of an optical transparent substrate (14). In the recording layer (16), contiguously defined along a feed direction S of irradiation are virtual recording cells (40) which have a given unit length in the feed direction S of irradiation along the groove 16 and a given unit width in the direction orthogonal thereto. In addition, the groove width W is set so that 0.20×(&lgr;/NA)<W<0.50×(&lgr;/NA), where &lgr; is the wavelength of a laser beam to be irradiated with and NA is the numerical aperture of the objective lens for the laser beam in a irradiation optical system. The irradiation time is set in five stages or more to radiate the laser beam, thereby making it possible to record information in multi-levels.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium having, on a substrate, a recording layer capable of recording information by irradiation with laser rays. The recording layer includes a 1,2,3-triazole compound that is not a condensate with 1,3-dimethylbarbituric acid. Also, an information recording method in which such an optical information recording medium is irradiated with a laser having a wavelength of 550 nm or less to record information.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical information recording medium comprising a substrate including a groove that has a track pitch of 200 to 400 nm and a depth of 20 to 150 nm, the substrate having successively disposed thereon a light-reflective layer, a recording layer containing a dye and on which information is recordable by a laser beam having a wavelength of 600 nm or less, and a cover layer, wherein the recording layer contains at least two organic solvent-soluble compounds each having an absorption maximum in the range of 300 to 450 nm and a specific absorbance at a recording laser wavelength.

Abstract: Limited-play optical medium with improved shelf stability are formed from a plurality of layers, including in sequence: (a) a first substrate layer; (b) a data layer; (c) a reflective layer; (d) a reactive layer comprising a dye having a reduced state and an oxidized state and further comprising an oxidized form of a reducing agent effective to convert the dye from the oxidized state to the reduced state, and (e) a second substrate layer. The dye in the reduced state is substantially transparent to light of wavelengths used to read the optical medium, and the dye in the oxidized state absorbs light of wavelengths used to read the optical medium. The reflective metal layer is formed from a metal or metal alloy that is not significantly oxidized by the oxidized form of the reducing agent. For example, the reflective metal layer is suitably formed from silver or gold.

Abstract: A recordable optical recording medium comprising a recording layer containing an organic dye which can absorb a laser beam and a metal reflective layer directly or via another layer on a transparent supporting substrate having a pre-groove and a pre-pit, wherein the organic dye has a refractive index nk of 2.2 or more at a reproduction wavelength &lgr;2; in relation to the reproduction wavelength &lgr;2, the depths of the pre-groove and the pre-pit on the substrates are more than &lgr;2/4; and the following equations are satisfied: 0.25r≦wg≦0.38r; 0.25≦wp/wg≦0.