Abstract

A new computation of the optical performance of a magnetooptic multilayer structure has been developed, and the statistical testing method is used in the automatic design of multilayered MO recording media. With this method we have succeeded in preparing MO recording media with a bilayer structure. The prepared bilayer structures have excellent magnetic properties and their MO performance agrees well with theoretical predictions.

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