The Center Aperture Detection (CAD) type Magnetically Induced Super-resolution (MSR) Magneto-optical Disk is one of method to overcome the limitation of optical resolution. For a reliability of the disk, it is important to investigate the stability of the magneto-static coupling between a readout layer and a recording layer through readout characteristics. In this paper, we tested the reliability of CAD tMSR magneto-optical disk. We used iD PHOTO disk for the CAD MSR magneto-optical disk. In the disk, the data is recorded on land and groove with a track pit of 0.6 µm and a bit length of 0.235 µm, by a method of laser pumped magnetic field modulation with an optical pickup of NA=0.62, λ=650 nm. The reliability was examined by PI error lines under the test condition of 80 °C-90 %RH. There were no considerable changes in read/write characteristics up to with an aging time of 2000 hour. The lifetime of the disk was estimated more than 7000 hour under the condition. By a method of the Arrhenius plots, we assumed that the lifetime of the disk would be more than 100 years under the condition of room temperature. We also confirmed that there were no significant changes in mechanical characteristics of the disks. These results show the disk using magneto-static coupling has sufficient reliability for consumer use.
KEYWORDS: Modulation, Optical discs, Phase shift keying, Clocks, Objectives, Data conversion, Error analysis, Tolerancing, Signal to noise ratio, Signal detection
Recently, there has been much research on high-density recording of phase change optical disc using blue laser. In most research, RLL (Run Length Limited) modulation such as (1,7) RLL and EFM (Eight to Fourteen Modulation) modulation is used for high-density recording and channel clock regenerating. NRZI (Non Return to Zero Inverse) modulation has a wider window width than other modulation methods. This is a superior characteristic for achieving a high-density recording system of optical disc. We introduced NRZI+ modulation to suppress the low frequency components. And we obtained a result of a bER (bit Error Rate) of less than 1×10-4 at a bit length of 0.13μm using Turbo coding with an objective lens of NA 0.7 and a blue laser of 405 nm wavelength. This result shows that a recording capacity of 20 GB is feasible using NRZI modulation.
Magneto-Optical (MO) disk possesses a very high advantage of high density recording compared to non magnetic optical disk, because MO recording is almost same as a perpendicular magnetic recording However, the high density recording is recorded by very tiny domains, so the readout MO signal decreases and the correct data reproduction becomes impossible. In order to amplify the small MO signal, one new idea has been proposed.
The read-out signal patterns by MAMMOS were classified and suitable read-out parameter (laser power, magnetic field) was estimated. By adjusting these parameters, both 0.2 micrometer size packed domain and modulated domains (T equals 0.2 micrometer) could be reproduced. The MAMMOS read-out from variously lengthened domains and eye pattern were obtained by application of a magnetic field synchronized with clock marks embossed on the disk.
We manufactured a high-frequency wobbled groove disk, and examined reading/writing a magneto-optical signal by using a clock generated from the wobbled groove. We also measured clock jitter and bit error rate. The results of this were clock jitter of under 2.5 ns, and a bit error rate almost equal to that of a self-clock. This wobbled groove clock method is therefore effective for higher density recording.
A readout method to amplify the MO signal by using a magnetic domain expansion phenomenon have been proposed. It was found that the small MO signal reproduced from 0.08 micrometers crescent shaped domain was amplified 5 times larger than that of conventional disk without readout field. Also the reproduced signal level reaches to about 70% of the saturated signal amplitude. The result corresponds to 20 Gbit/in2 areal density with conventional 680 nm laser.
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