Abstract

Thermal behavior in land–groove phase-change optical recording has been examined for different polarizations of the incident beam. Three-dimensional temperature distribution in the grooved medium is evaluated by the numerical solution of Maxwell’s equations and the heat transfer equation with the finite-difference method. Both experiments and calculations have shown that the thermal behavior in the medium is dependent on the state of polarization and the nature of the track. The calculated mark shapes in a quadrilayer stack are in good agreement with experimental observations.

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Measurement of the thermal coefficients of rewritable phase-change optical recording media

Chubing Peng and Masud Mansuripur
Appl. Opt. 41(2) 361-369 (2002)

Measurement of the thermal conductivity of erasable phase-change optical recording media

Chubing Peng and M. Mansuripur
Appl. Opt. 39(14) 2347-2352 (2000)

Multispeed rewritable optical-recording method with an initialization-free phase-change disk

Xiang Shui Miao, Lu Ping Shi, Pik Kee Tan, Jian Ming Li, Kian Guan Lim, Xiang Hu, and Tow Chong Chong
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Optical characterization of multilayer stacks used as phase-change media of optical disk data storage

Rongguang Liang, Chubing Peng, Kenichi Nagata, Kelly Daly-Flynn, and Masud Mansuripur
Appl. Opt. 41(2) 370-378 (2002)

Crystallization studies on phase-change optical recording media by use of a two-dimensional periodic mark array

Xiaodong Xun, James K. Erwin, Warren Bletscher, Jinhan Choi, Senta Kallenbach, and Masud Mansuripur
Appl. Opt. 40(35) 6535-6547 (2001)