Abstract: The disclosure describes an optical recording medium for recording, erasing and reading-out information by irradiation a laser beam, comprising:a lower dielectric protective layer, a phase-change-type recording layer, an upper dielectric protective layer and a metal reflective layer successively deposited on a transparent substrate formed with grooves, in whichboth of grooves and lands are used as a recorded region,a groove depth (d) satisfies the following relation (1):.lambda./7n<d<.lambda./5n (1)wherein .lambda. represents a wavelength of an irradiation light and n represents a refractive index of the substrate, anda groove width (GW) and a land width (LW) satisfy the following relation (2):0.1 .mu.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical recording medium for recording informations by irradiating the optical recording medium with a laser beam to form a hole or a deformed part thereon, said optical recording medium comprising a substrate and a recording layer containing at least Te, Se and F in the amounts of from 35 to 94.9 atomic % of Te, from 5 to 25 atomic % of Se and from 0.1 to 40 atomic % of F, produced by a reactive sputtering, said Se being derived from selenium fluoride and a sputtering target of Te or a sputtering target comprising Te-Se-alloy, and a process for producing the same.