Abstract: A main pole has a front end face including a first end face portion and a second end face portion. A plasmon generator has a near-field light generating surface. A surrounding layer has a first surrounding layer end face and a second surrounding layer end face located on opposite sides of the first end face portion in the track width direction. A gap film has a first gap film end face and a second gap film end face located on opposite sides of the near-field light generating surface in the track width direction. Each of the first and second gap film end faces includes a portion located between the first and second surrounding layer end faces, but does not include any portion interposed between the first surrounding layer end face and the first end face portion or between the second surrounding layer end face and the first end face portion.

Abstract: A hologram recording and playback device is provided with: a medium rotation unit which rotates a hologram recording medium around a predetermined rotational axis; a movement unit which is capable of moving the position of the medium rotation unit within a plane that is perpendicular to the rotational axis; an orthogonal incident angle modification unit which is capable of modifying an orthogonal incident angle; a medium rotation control unit which controls the medium rotation unit so as to rotate the hologram recording medium; an eccentricity compensation unit which performs positioning control of the movement unit; an orthogonal incident angle control unit which controls the orthogonal incident angle modification unit; and an orthogonal incident angle calculation unit which calculates the orthogonal incident angle.

Abstract: A holographic light-emitting module includes a light source module and a light shape control module. The light source module is configured to provide a signal light beam and a reference light beam, in which polarizations of the signal light beam and the reference light beam are orthogonal. The light shape control module is configured to receive the signal light beam and the reference light beam propagated from the light source module, in which the signal light beam and the reference light beam are modulated and emitted by the light shape control module The reference light beam is surrounded by the signal light beam and located at a center of the signal light beam, and the signal light beam and the reference light beam are partially overlapped.

Abstract: A heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) device includes transducer head comprising a heat source and a writer. The HAMR device further includes a power controller configured to selectively power on and off the heat source independent of current flowing through a write coil of the writer based on a position of the transducer head relative to an adjacent rotating media.

Abstract: Provided is a holographic data storage system characterized by including: a first polarizing beam splitter (PBS), wherein at least either of a first lens module and a second lens module transmits P-polarized light and reflects S-polarized light; a relay lens collecting light passing through the first PBS; a mirror reflecting the light collected through the relay lens back to the relay lens; and a quarter wave plate located between a second PBS beam splitter and the relay lens, converting transmitted linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light, and converting the circularly polarized light into linearly polarized light. By reducing the volume of the relay lens, it is possible to decrease the size of the holographic data storage system, and by decreasing the number of lenses, it is possible to lower manufacturing costs.

Abstract: This recording/reproducing apparatus that records or reproduces information by radiating light to a recording medium is provided with: a medium rotating unit that rotates the recording medium; a moving unit having a movable unit that is capable of moving within a predetermined plane; a rotation angle detecting unit that detects a rotating angle of the recording medium using an angle detection mark that is provided on the recording medium; a position detecting unit that detects a position of the recording medium using an eccentricity detection mark that is provided on the recording medium; and a member for fixing the rotation angle detecting unit and the position detecting unit. With respect to the member, the movable unit relatively moves within a plane substantially parallel to the recording surface of the recording medium, and the medium rotating unit is fixed to the movable unit.

Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are described to improve the storage and retrieval of video content. The general concepts set forth herein could be used in any video storage system that uses disk drives to store video content, including remote or local storage digital video recorders (DVRs) and the like.

Abstract: To provide an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus capable of correct positioning, in an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus which branches a light beam into reference light and signal light to cause interference and records an obtained interference fringe as a hologram on an optical information recording medium and reproduces the hologram recorded by applying the reference light onto the optical information recording medium, the apparatus has an image pickup element which detects reproduction light passing through an aperture 101 in reproduction light obtained by applying the reference light onto the optical information recording medium and generates a reproduction signal, photo detectors 104a, 104b, 104c, and 104d that are different from the image pickup element and detect reproduction light applied on a location on the periphery of the aperture 101, and a computing unit which computes a position error signal based on outputs from the photo detectors.

Abstract: A recording and reproducing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a first optical pickup configured to record information on either a land track and a groove track, with respect to a recording medium that is able to be recorded in the land track and the groove track, a second optical pickup configured to record information on a track different from a track recorded by the first optical pickup, and a controller configured to cause the first optical pickup to record information if tracks of both sides of a track that the first optical pickup follows are recorded, and to cause the second optical pickup to record information if tracks of both sides of a track that the second optical pickup follows are recorded.

Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, circuits for data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for data processing to identify a defect on a medium.

Abstract: A change in an optical energy profile of energy emitted from a read/write head is determined. The read/write head includes an optical transmission path that emits the energy to heat a heat-assisted recording medium during writing. A change in optical efficiency of the read/write head is also determined. Based on the change in the optical energy profile and the change in the optical efficiency, a change in the effectiveness of the read/write head is determined, and in response a mitigation is performed.

Abstract: A heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) assembly includes a slider, a laser diode and solder connections between the laser diode and the slider. The solder connections mechanically and electrically attach the laser diode to the slider. Each solder connection has a total volume per unit area (i.e., height) of less than or equal to about 15 ?m. The solder connections have a first intermetallic zone adjacent to the laser diode, a second intermetallic zone adjacent to the slider, and a eutectic zone of eutectic material between the first and second intermetallic zones. The eutectic zone occupies greater than or equal to about 35% of the total volume per unit area of the solder connection.

Abstract: A read channel module including an input, a location module and a generation module. The input is configured to receive a read-back signal from a rotating storage medium. The location module is configured to determine a location to insert a first imitation defect within the read-back signal. The first imitation defect imitates a first defect. The generation module is configured to (i) selectively generate the first imitation defect, and (ii) insert the first imitation defect in the read-back signal at the determined location.

Abstract: A laser power applied to a recording head is changed for a plurality of iterations. Each iteration involves, via the recording head at each laser power, writing multiple adjacent tracks to a heat-assisted recording medium and determining a bit error rate for at least one of the adjacent tracks at each laser power. A first laser power is found that achieves a minimum bit error rate of the iterations. An operational value of laser power that is smaller than the first laser power is used during operational recording to reduce adjacent track interference.

Abstract: A data storage device may be configured with at least a heat assisted magnetic recording head that has a laser and is connected to a controller. The heat assisted magnetic recording head can be positioned proximal first and second data bits stored on an adjacent data storage medium. A first laser power may be applied by the laser in response to the first data bit being a different magnetic polarity than the second data bit and a different second laser power can be applied by the laser in response to the first and second data bits having a common magnetic polarity.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for generating supply voltages in a data storage device. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a data transducer adjacent a rotatable magnetic recording medium, the data transducer having a write coil and an electromagnetic source for thermally assisted recording by the write coil. A preamplifier/driver circuit (preamp) has a write driver adapted to supply write currents to the write coil and a source driver adapted to supply source voltage to the electromagnetic source. A voltage regulation circuit applies a first positive supply voltage to the write driver and a different, second positive supply voltage to the source driver.

Abstract: A heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) device includes a controller that selects a power for operating a heat source for a data write to a target data track. According to one implementation, the controller selects the power based on an assessment of whether the target data track is bounded by any data-storing tracks. A first power is selected when the data track is not bounded by any data-storing tracks and a second lower power is selected when the data track is bounded by one or more data-storing tracks. In another implementation, the controller writes to different partitioned regions of a storage media with different powers of the heat source. The controller selects a storage location for data based on an expected write error rate and environmental conditions within the HAMR device.

Abstract: A magnetization controlling element includes a ferromagnetic material layer, an exchange coupling adjustment layer, an antiferromagnetic material layer, an electrode layer, a magnetic field applying mechanism which applies a magnetic field to the antiferromagnetic material layer, and an electric field applying mechanism which applies an electric field to the antiferromagnetic material layer. The antiferromagnetic material layer contains an antiferromagnetic material or ferrimagnetic material having a magnetoelectric effect, the ferromagnetic material layer includes a perpendicular magnetization film having a magnetization component perpendicular to the film surface, the ferromagnetic material layer includes a ferromagnetic material layer that is magnetically connected, through exchange coupling, to the antiferromagnetic material layer. The exchange coupling adjustment layer has a function of adjusting exchange coupling between the ferromagnetic material layer and the antiferromagnetic material layer.

Abstract: A shot data generation method includes inputting writing data for writing a pattern on a target object with multi charged particle beams, and generating shot data for each beam of the multi charged particle beams by converting the writing data and using one of a first code indicating a first irradiation time period having been set beforehand, a second code indicating an irradiation time period being zero, and a third code indicating neither the first irradiation time period nor the irradiation time period being zero.

Abstract: There is provided an optical disc device that performs recording on a land and a groove, including an optical path splitter configured to split a luminous flux returning from an optical disc into first and second optical paths, a first detector configured to receive a whole of the luminous flux that has passed through the first optical path, a second detector configured to receive a luminous flux of an inside part of the luminous flux that has passed through the second optical path, a spherical aberration error signal generation unit configured to generate a spherical aberration error signal on the basis of a difference between a first focus error signal obtained on the basis of a detection signal of the first detector and a second focus error signal obtained on the basis of a detection signal of the second detector, a spherical aberration correction unit, and an adjustment unit.