Abstract: A disc structure for making an inverted optical response through a super-resolution process using a recorded mark portion and a space portion, which is realized to amplify a signal amplitude and solve a conventional problem that a conventional super-resolution technique can obtain only small signals, since the super-resolution area is reduced to realize high density recording of data.

Abstract: Provided are a medium structure which allows track narrowing onto a three-dimensional pit selection type disc, and its corresponding optical disc device. Multiple data pit strings are formed between track guide grooves, and a phase-change recording film is formed only in the data pit strings. Thereby, a disc configuration is achieved. Reflectivity and a phase of each of a space portion and a mark portion are appropriately set. Thereby, normal resolution signal cancel is implemented to prevent deterioration in data crosstalk and a push-pull signal. An optical disc medium of the present invention is supported by an optical disc device having a configuration in which a signal is selected from a push-pull signal of a main beam and push-pull signals of sub-beams to read out wobble address information.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: Super-resolution technology was proposed for generating marks smaller than the optical resolution in order to record data at high density on the optical disk. However, the achievable high density of the super-resolution technology was limited due to fluctuation of the region exhibiting the super-resolution effect due to the grain size or the molecular size comprising the super-resolution film. However fluctuation in the region exhibiting the super-resolution effect is reduced by utilizing recording marks possessing their own super-resolution effect and also by separating the recording marks from each other.

Abstract: A method for mass-producing a recording mark capable of being reproduced even below the diffraction limit in the information recording medium. A medium comprising: a substrate including a first material on the surface, and a second material formed on a first area on the substrate, and a third material at least whose surface energy or surface curvature are different from the second material, and the second material and third material possess at least different chemical or physical characteristics, and at least the surface energy or surface curvature of the third material are greater than the second material, moreover a region formed of the third material contains less than 20 percent of the second material, and the second or the third material can be melted for performing recording or reproduction, so that a recording mark can be produced that is capable of being read even below the diffraction limit in the information recording medium.

Abstract: An optical disc using super-resolution effects that achieves higher-density recording exceeding the optical resolution suffers from the signal-quality degradation caused by the normal resolution component included in the reproduction signal. To address this problem, a data reproduction method is provided. In the method, characteristic error patterns are identified and parity check codes in conformity with run-length limited coding are used to carry out efficient and reliable error correction. Error patterns caused by the normal resolution crosstalk are localized in the leading edges of a mark following a long space and in the trailing edges of a long mark. Whether an error exists in the data is determined by use of the parity check codes. When an error occurs, a pattern in which an error is most likely to occur is selected from the above-mentioned patterns by taking account of the edge shift direction, and then the error therein is corrected.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: In forming a space layer of a multi-formation-layer recording medium, there are provided a medium having a high precision in a thickness of the space layer and its manufacturing process. In the multi-formation-layer recording medium wherein at least two pairs of an information recording layer and a translucency spacer are layered on a substrate having physical patterns composed of an optical spot groove and/or pits on the surface, an average thickness of the translucency spacers in an information zone is 15 ?m or less, and a difference in spacer thickness between a minimum value and a maximum value is 2 ?m or less.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: A super-resolution material is formed in only a data pit, in a low temperature state of the super-resolution material, reflectivity of each of a pit portion and a space portion and an optical phase difference therebetween are set to be sufficiently small, in a high temperature state, and at least the optical phase difference between the pit and the space is set to be larger than the aforementioned value in an absolute value. Accordingly, by conducting irradiation with an appropriate read power by which substantially only one data track width can be heated to a high temperature state, a good push-pull signal can be obtained even with a track pitch being less than a diffraction limit.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: A disc structure for making an inverted optical response through a super-resolution process using a recorded mark portion and a space portion, which is realized to amplify a signal amplitude and solve a conventional problem that a conventional super-resolution technique can obtain only small signals, since the super-resolution area is reduced to realize high density recording of data.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: Provided are a medium structure which allows track narrowing onto a three-dimensional pit selection type disc, and its corresponding optical disc device. Multiple data pit strings are formed between track guide grooves, and a phase-change recording film is formed only in the data pit strings. Thereby, a disc configuration is achieved. Reflectivity and a phase of each of a space portion and a mark portion are appropriately set. Thereby, normal resolution signal cancel is implemented to prevent deterioration in data crosstalk and a push-pull signal. An optical disc medium of the present invention is supported by an optical disc device having a configuration in which a signal is selected from a push-pull signal of a main beam and push-pull signals of sub-beams to read out wobble address information.

Abstract: An information recording medium capable of displaying multiple labels and a storing case for the information recording medium are provided. The multiple labels are displayed by changing the labels to be displayed while selectively selecting information layers in a multi information recording medium. The medium has a function to receive either voltage or current, and the information layers selectively receive either voltage or current for changing the labels.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of making a mold for manufacturing a microlens having a smooth surface and an arbitrary aspherical surface, or more specifically, an aspheric microlens of dimensions such that an aperture is equal to or less than 1 mm and a thickness is equal to or more than 0.5 mm. A mask layer having plural circular apertures with different sizes formed therein for a mold for one lens is formed on a silicon substrate. Plural holes are formed for the lens in the silicon substrate by applying anisotropic dry etching to a surface to be processed, which is the surface having the mask layer formed thereon. The depths of the respective holes vary depending on the sizes of the circular apertures. Isotropic etching is performed to remove sidewalls of the plural holes with different depths formed in the silicon substrate, thereby merging the holes into one hole corresponding to the lens.

Abstract: An phase-change optical disk comprises a substrate, a first protective layer, a first thermostable layer, a recording layer, a second thermostable layer, a second protective layer, an absorptance control layer, and a heat-diffusing layer which are provided in this order from a side on which a laser beam comes thereinto, wherein a recording layer material has composition ratios which are within a range surrounded by composition points of B3 (Bi3, Ge46, Te51), C3 (Bi4, Ge46, Te50), D3 (Bi5, Ge46, Te49), D5 (Bi10, Ge42, Te48), C5 (Bi10, Ge41, Te49), and B5 (Bi7, Ge41, Te52) on a triangular composition diagram. Recrystallization is not caused even when information is recorded on an inner circumferential portion, a reproduced signal is scarcely deteriorated even when rewriting is performed multiple times, and any erasing residue of amorphous matters scarcely appears at an outer circumferential portion.

Abstract: A method for mass-producing a recording mark capable of being reproduced even below the diffraction limit in the information recording medium. A medium comprising: a substrate including a first material on the surface, and a second material formed on a first area on the substrate, and a third material at least whose surface energy or surface curvature are different from the second material, and the second material and third material possess at least different chemical or physical characteristics, and at least the surface energy or surface curvature of the third material are greater than the second material, moreover a region formed of the third material contains less than 20 percent of the second material, and the second or the third material can be melted for performing recording or reproduction, so that a recording mark can be produced that is capable of being read even below the diffraction limit in the information recording medium.