Abstract: An magneto-optical disk drive comprises a driving apparatus for rotating a medium, an electromagnet positioned above or below the medium for producing a magnetic field on a recording surface of the medium, and an optical head by which laser light illuminates the recording surface and the laser light reflected from the recording surface is picked up. Here, the electromagnet comprises a plurality of subdivided electromagnet elements, a magnetic field concentrator by combining the electromagnet elements in a magnetic circuit and concentrating magnetic fields produced from the combined electromagnet elements on a portion of the electromagnet, and a center magnetic pole provided in an opposing position with respect to the optical head, to thereby make the magnetic field concentrated by the magnetic field concentrator pass through the recording surface of the medium. Accordingly, the recording time or data on the medium becomes greatly shortened, thereby enabling high speed data recording.

Abstract: A high-density recording optical head for increasing recording density in an optical head for recording and reproducing information optically. The disclosed optical head is provided with an iris for transmitting or passing the central portion of the reflected light when the light reflected from a medium is transmitted by an ordinary objective lens. Another iris is also provided for transmitting or reflecting the periphery of the reflected light and, in this case, an improved objective lens structure including two inner and outer elements is provided. Therefore, in the disclosed optical head, only light reflected from the actual recording region is detected as a reproduction signal. According to the disclosed optical head, high-density recording in identical media becomes possible.