WO2006059399A1 - 光学的記憶媒体、光学的記憶媒体の製造方法及び光学的記憶装置 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to an optical storage medium for optically recording and reproducing with an optical head, a method for manufacturing the optical storage medium, and an optical storage device, and more particularly, to each land divided by groups or lands.
- the present invention also relates to an optical storage medium that records and reproduces data on a recording layer of a group, a method for manufacturing the optical storage medium, and an optical storage device.
- the competition to increase the density of information recording media is intensifying, and the capacity per recording media is increasing.
- the price of information recording media is intensifying, and the price is getting lower.
- Increasing the capacity per recording medium increases the time required for media certification (quality assurance) and initialization, and the manufacturing cost including quality assurance tends to increase.
- DWD D Domain Wall
- Non-Patent Document 1 Patent Document 1
- a recording layer 4 06 is formed on the substrate 4 0 0 over the land 4 0 2 and the group 4 0 4.
- the land 4 0 2 is irradiated with a laser beam 4 2 0 having high intensity, and the recording layer 4 0 6 inside the substrate 4 0 0 is cut or the function is lowered.
- the height between the land 4 0 2 and the group 4 0 4 that is, the groove deeper, similar interference prevention between tracks can be expected.
- Non-Patent Document 1 Paper "1 5 Gbit / in 2 recording on a DWDD disc using a land / groove substrate with a red laser enabled by a side-wall-annealing processj SPIE (The International Society for optical Engineering) Vol. 5069 (2 0 0 3 years SPIE)
- Patent Document 1 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 1 1 1 2 7 3 1 70
- an object of the present invention is to provide an optical storage medium, a method for manufacturing the optical storage medium, and an optical storage device capable of high-density recording without annealing processing by the medium manufacturer.
- Another object of the present work is to provide an optical storage medium, a method of manufacturing the optical storage medium, and an optical storage medium for changing to a high-density recordable storage medium even if a non-annealed storage medium is provided. To provide a storage device.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide an optical storage medium, a method for manufacturing an optical storage medium, and an optical storage device for reducing the manufacturing cost of a high-density recording medium. I will.
- the optical storage medium of the present invention comprises at least an optical storage medium that is recorded and reproduced by light, a substrate having a groove and a land formed by a change in physical shape, And the group or land separates the recording layer into the group or land by the light irradiation, and anneal control for indicating whether or not annealing is performed to increase the recording density.
- the information is rewritable.
- the key management information is formed in a pit shape in the group or land.
- the annealing management information is formed on the recording layer of the group or land.
- the optical storage medium of the present invention preferably has a system area in which the annealing management information is formed and a user area.
- the recording layer is composed of a magneto-optical layer.
- a pit-shaped content is formed in the land area of the land or group.
- the method for manufacturing an optical storage medium of the present invention includes a step of forming a substrate having grooves and lands formed by a change in physical shape, a step of forming a recording layer on the substrate, and the group or land And the step of separating the recording layer into the groups or lands by the light irradiation and forming rewritable annealing management information indicating the presence or absence of annealing treatment for increasing the recording density.
- the step of forming the annealing management information includes a step of forming a pit shape on the group or land.
- the step of forming the annealing management information includes a step of forming the recording layer of the group or land.
- the substrate is formed.
- the step includes a step of forming a pit-shaped content in the land or groove annealing region.
- the optical storage device of the present invention includes a groove and a land formed by a change in physical shape, an optical head for reading an optical storage medium having a recording layer, and an anneal read from the optical storage medium.
- a controller that performs annealing for increasing the recording density by separating the recording layer by the group or land by light irradiation in accordance with annealing management information indicating the presence or absence of the processing.
- the optical head reads the annealing management information formed in a pit shape on the group or land.
- the optical head reads the annealing management information formed on the recording layer of the group or land.
- the optical head read an optical storage medium having a system area and a user area where management information is formed, and the controller According to the management information, the user area is processed.
- the recording layer of the optical storage medium is composed of a magneto-optical layer.
- the optical head reads the pit-shaped content formed in the annealing region of the land or group during the annealing process.
- the controller updates the annealing management information of the optical recording medium after the annealing process.
- the controller refers to the annealing management information of the optical storage medium and determines a recording density of the optical storage medium in a user area. .
- the controller is relatively high to a user area of the optical storage medium.
- the optical storage medium Record and playback in the user area at a relatively low density.
- the controller indicates that the annealing management information of the optical storage medium has not been annealed, the user area of the optical storage medium is subjected to a user area processing.
- FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing a film configuration of an optical storage medium according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Fig. 2 shows the relationship between the pits and MO marks in the medium in Fig. 1.
- FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the annealing management area of the medium of FIG.
- FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of the recording method of the annealing management area of FIG.
- FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of management information in the annealing management area of FIG.
- FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of other management information of the annealing management area of FIG.
- FIG. 7 is an overall block diagram of the optical storage device according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a block diagram of the signal processing system of the drive of FIG.
- FIG. 9 is a relationship diagram between the detector arrangement of FIG. 8 and the generated signal.
- FIG. 10 is a configuration diagram of the recording density changing system according to the first embodiment of this invention.
- FIG. 11 is a flowchart of the recording density changing process according to the first embodiment of this invention.
- FIG. 12 is a relationship diagram between the irradiation light power and the applied magnetic field intensity in FIG.
- Figure 13 shows the relationship between recording peak power and MO jitter.
- Figure 14 shows the relationship between pit playback power and MO jitter.
- FIG. 15 is a flowchart of the process for recording the annealing management information shown in FIG.
- FIG. 16 is an explanatory diagram of another recording process of the annealing management information shown in FIG.
- FIG. 17 is a flowchart of another recording density changing process according to the first embodiment of this invention.
- FIG. 18 is a process flow diagram of the second embodiment of the recording density changing method of the present invention.
- FIG. 19 is an explanatory diagram of the content management table for FIG.
- FIG. 20 is another processing flowchart of the second embodiment of the recording density changing method of the present invention.
- FIG. 21 is a diagram of still another processing window of the second embodiment of the recording density changing method of the present invention.
- Figure 22 is a block diagram of the annealing management area of Figure 21.
- FIG. 23 is an explanatory diagram of a file management area according to another embodiment of this effort.
- FIG. 24 is a track configuration diagram of another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 25 is an explanatory diagram of the first embodiment of the method of manufacturing the optical storage medium of the present invention.
- FIG. 26 is an explanatory diagram of the second embodiment of the method for manufacturing an optical storage medium of the present invention.
- FIG. 27 is a film configuration diagram of an optical storage medium according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 28 is a diagram showing the relationship between the pits and phase change marks in the medium shown in FIG.
- Fig.29 is a diagram of the relationship between the irradiated light beam and the phase change mark in Fig.27.
- FIG. 30 is a process flow diagram of the third embodiment of the recording density changing method of the present invention.
- FIG. 31 is a diagram of a conventional optical storage medium.
- FIG. 32 is an explanatory diagram of the conventional annealing process. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
- FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing a film configuration of an optical storage medium according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a relationship diagram of pits and ⁇ marks in the medium of FIG. 1
- FIG. 3 is a medium of FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of the recording method of the annealing management area of FIG. 3
- FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of management information of the annealing management area of FIG. 3
- Figure 1 shows the film structure of the DWD D disk described above as an optical storage medium.
- the DWD D disk 4 is composed of an optically transparent plastic substrate 4 A, a dielectric layer 4 B, such as SiNx, a playback layer 4 C composed of GdFeCo, and a TbFeCo with a low temperature and one temperature composition.
- a switching layer 4D made of, a recording layer 4E made of TbFeCo having a high Curie temperature, a dielectric layer 4F such as SiNx, and a metal protective layer 4G such as A1 are generally formed by sputtering.
- a control layer for adjusting the movement of the domain wall may be separately provided between the reproducing layer 4 C and the switching layer 4 D.
- an ultraviolet curable resin layer 4H is generally formed by a spin coating method, and the resin layer 4H is stabilized by irradiation with an ultraviolet spring after the spin coating.
- the physical structure of lands (including pits) and groups is formed by the stamper method described later using this plastic substrate 4A.
- Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the land and group structure of the information storage medium substrate using the DWD D of Fig. 1, and shows the relationship between the pits of the information storage medium and the MO mark.
- the pits 4 1 4 of the pit row 4-1 serve as guide grooves (lands). That is, in this example, the land is formed by the information pits 4 1 4 and the MO signal string 4 1 2 is recorded in the group.
- pit information that also serves as annealing is reproduced.
- the beam spot 4 1 6 is focused on the center of the pit row 4 1 1.
- the beam spot 4 1 2 is focused at the approximate center between the pit rows 4 1 1.
- the annealing area 4 1 8 is a pit string 4 between the MO signal strings 4-2.
- a disk shape having a diameter of ⁇ 9 O mm, a track pitch (pit row 4 — 1 interval) of 1 ⁇ , a pit width of 0.35 / m, and a pit depth of 90 nm A board is used.
- the MO mark is recorded only in the group part, but it may be recorded in the land part or both the land and the group. Further, as will be described later, lands may be formed instead of pits.
- 3 is an explanatory diagram of the annealing management area of the storage medium 4 of FIG. 2
- FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of the recording method of the annealing management area of FIG. 3
- FIGS. 5 and 6 are the annealing process of FIG. FIG.
- FIG. 6 is a relationship diagram between the state of management and data in a management area.
- an annealing management area 40 is provided in a system area (stores disk specifications, disk area information, etc.) provided in the innermost circumference of the disk 4. Therefore, the area other than the innermost system area is released to the user as the data area 42.
- the file management area 40 stores management information indicating whether or not the user area 42 has been subjected to annealing processing. Unprocessed is recorded.
- a recording method of the annealing management area 40 one is a recording method using the magneto-optical signal 40_1, and the other is a recording method using the pit signal 40_2.
- the system area including the management area may be recorded without annealing or may be recorded after annealing. If the media manufacturer records the management information without annealing, this area is recorded at low density. On the other hand, if the media manufacturer records the management information after annealing, this area is recorded at high density.
- management information is recorded as a ROM signal on the substrate 4 by pits.
- the pits of this management information are destroyed by the high power laser treatment, indicating that the annealing has been completed.
- the user area 42 is not annealed when the medium is shipped.
- this annealing management information stores a value of “1” if the annealing has been completed, and “0” if the annealing has not been completed.
- the management information reflects the data recording status of the user area 42. That is, “0 0” if it is unannealed and the data part is not recorded, “0 1” if it is unannealed and low-density recorded in the data part, “1 0” if it is annealed and the data part is not recorded. “If the annealing has been completed and the high-density recording has been completed in the data section, the value“ 1 1 ”is stored.
- the optical storage medium 4 is provided from the medium first without annealing, and it is left to the user to execute the annealing process. Because of this, light
- the annealing storage area 40 is provided in the academic storage medium 4, and the annealing is performed, the information in the management area 40 is updated so that the optical storage device recognizes whether the annealing is completed or not. This makes it possible to judge whether it is a density record.
- FIG. 7 is an overall block diagram of an optical storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 8 is a block diagram of a signal processing system of the drive of FIG. 7
- FIG. 9 is an arrangement and generated signals of the detector of FIG.
- FIG. Figure 7 shows a magneto-optical disk drive as an optical storage device.
- the motor 18 rotates an optical information recording medium (MO disk) 4.
- MO disk 4 is the removable medium described in FIGS. 1 to 3, and is inserted from the drive inlet of a drive not shown.
- the optical pickup 5 has a magnetic head 35 and an optical head 7 arranged so as to sandwich the optical information recording medium 4.
- the optical pickup 5 is moved by a track actuator 6 such as a ball screw feeding mechanism, and can access any position in the radial direction of the optical information recording medium 4. Further, an LD (laser diode) driver 31 for moving the laser diode LD of the optical head 7 and a magnetic head driver 34 for driving the magnetic head 35 of the optical pickup 5 are provided.
- a track actuator 6 such as a ball screw feeding mechanism
- the access servo controller 1 5— 2 controls the track actuator 6, the motor 1 8 and the focus actuator 1 9 of the optical head 7 according to the output from the optical head 7. .
- Controller 1 5— 1 operates LD driver 3 1, magnetic head driver 3 4, and servo controller for access 1 5 — 2 to record and reproduce information.
- the light emitted from the laser diode LD is linearly polarized, and the characteristics of the polarization beam splitter 1 1 are such that 70% of the polarized component is transmitted, 30% is reflected, and almost 100% of the S polarized component is reflected. . About 30% of the light incident as ⁇ -polarized light is reflected by this polarized beam splitter 1 1 and is collected on the APC (Auto Power Control) detector 1 3 by the condenser lens 1 2. .
- the LD controller (driver) 31 adjusts the emission power of the laser diode LD by applying negative feedback from the output signal from the detector 13 for APC.
- the light condensed on the optical information recording medium 4 is reflected as light having a Kerr rotation angle of about 0.8 degrees according to the magnetization direction of the reproducing layer.
- This reflected light is again incident on the polarization beam splitter 11 through the objective lens 16, and about 30% of the P-polarized component and almost 100% of the S-polarized component are reflected.
- the reflected light is reflected by the polarization beam splitter 14 so that about 60% of the P-polarized component and almost 100% of the S-polarized component are reflected.
- the reflected light is separated into two polarization components by the Wollaston prism 26 and is condensed on the two-divided detector 25-2 via the collecting lens 17.
- MO signal is detected, also the addition operation of each output of the two-split detector 25 2 in adders 2 9 By doing so, a pit signal is detected.
- the TES signal generation circuit 24 is also used for tracking error TE S (Tracking Error signal) signal as a push-pull method,
- the servo actuator dryer 1 5-2 S moves the objective lens actuator 1 9 to perform focusing and tracking.
- the motor driver 15-2M drives the spindle motor 18 to rotate at the specified speed.
- the above-described configuration is an example of an implementation means relating to the present invention, and there is no problem even if a spot size detection method, a Foucault method, or the like is used for focusing.
- the 3-beam method, differential push-pull method, heterodyne method, and phase difference method can also be used.
- a disk-type information recording medium is assumed in consideration of rotation by a spindle motor, but it can also be realized by a tape medium having tracks corresponding to guide grooves.
- FIG. 10 is a configuration diagram of a recording density changing system according to the first embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 11 is a flowchart of recording density changing processing according to the first embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. Fig. 11 Relationship between irradiated light power and applied magnetic field strength
- Fig. 13 shows relationship between recording peak power and MO jitter
- Fig. 14 shows relationship between pit reproduction power and MO jitter
- FIG. 11 is a flowchart of processing for recording annealing management information in FIG. 11.
- FIG. 16 is an explanatory diagram of another recording processing for annealing management information in FIG.
- FIG. 10 shows a configuration of a recording density changing system by distribution of an information recording medium with advertisement as a first embodiment of the present invention.
- the advertisement agency 2 0 2 sends advertisement information A to the media manufacturer 2 0 4 in response to a request from the sponsor 2 0 0.
- the media manufacturer 20 4 records the advertisement information as phase pit information in the guide groove 4 11 of the information recording medium 4 and records the anneal management information in the anneal management area 40 as will be described later.
- the user area 42 of the medium 4 is not annealed. Therefore, high-density recording / reproduction is not possible.
- the media 4 X on which this advertising information is recorded is provided to the market and user 2 0 6 Purchased.
- the price of the information medium 4 is supplemented by the advertising fee from the sponsor 200, and the user 206 can purchase the optical information medium 4 at a low cost.
- the user 2 06 anneals the purchased medium 4 X with the magneto-optical recording apparatus described in FIG. 7 and the like, it can be used as a rewritable medium 4 Y that can be recorded with high density.
- phase pit information is reproduced by laser irradiation of annealing.
- the advertisement information intended by the sponsor 2 0 0 is transmitted to the user 2 0 6.
- the user 206 can purchase the low-density, high-density recording medium 4 X, and the medium manufacturer 20 4 does not perform the annealing process, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost and providing the medium at a low cost. it can.
- the advertising fee of the advertising sponsor 200 can be reflected in the medium cost, and the provision price of the medium 4X can be further reduced.
- FIG. 11 shows the flowchart of user's process management.
- the controller 15-1 acquires the annealing management information (FIGS. 5 to 6) of the annealing management area 40 in this system area.
- Controller 15-1 determines whether the entire surface of medium 4 has been annealed from the annealing management information.
- step S 1 When the user approves the content playback, the optical head 5 plays back the content of the unannealed part while performing annealing at high accuracy. When the annealing is completed in all areas, the annealed information is recorded in the annealing management area 40. (S 20) If it is determined in step S 14 that the entire surface has been annealed, or if annealing is performed in step S 18, recording / reproduction of the data section 42 with the above-described high density becomes possible. Recording and playback are performed as required by user operations.
- the annealing management information is not updated, and a request to confirm the content playback is issued again.
- the user inserts the medium 4 that has been annealed in all areas into the device and wants to check the content information recorded in the pit section 41, the content information can be reproduced with low power. it can.
- FIG. 12 shows the temporal relationship between the light intensity (L ight powe r) irradiating the MO medium 4 and the applied magnetic field (magn etci c i e l d). As shown in Fig. 12, a magnetic field is not normally applied, but during MO signal recording, a magnetic field that reverses at intervals according to the recording mark is applied. At that time, modulated light is emitted at the reference clock T interval between the two values of peak power Pwp and bottom power Pwb, which are write power.
- MO signal recording it is possible to record by inverting the magnetic field while irradiating light of constant power, but to increase the SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) of the recording mark, irradiate with pulsed light. Is desirable. In particular, it is desirable that the power interval of the peak power Pwp is set so that the duty with respect to the clock T is 50 ° / 0 or less.
- the domain wall motion in the direction perpendicular to the track by the DWDD is suppressed, and the SNR of the MO mark 410 recorded between the annealing regions is improved.
- the SNR improvement effect during information recording by pulse light irradiation is enhanced.
- FIG. 13 and 14 are explanatory diagrams of an embodiment of the present invention.
- the spindle motor 18 was rotated and evaluated under a constant condition of a linear velocity of 3 m / sec.
- FIG. 13 shows the measurement results of MO jitter (%) with respect to the light peak power P w p when the power power P an is changed from 0 mW to 13 mW.
- FIG. 14 is a characteristic diagram of MO jitter (%) with respect to the annealing power P an at the write peak power Pwp at which M 0 jitter is minimized in FIG.
- the MO jitter tends to increase as the power of the power Pan is further increased. The reason for this is thought to be that the change in the recording film due to the annealing process reaches the recording area of the MO mark 4 10 and hinders the domain wall motion characteristics in the linear velocity direction.
- an annealing process that takes about 15 minutes at a linear speed of 3 m / sec per MO disk 4 is performed by the user, so that the media manufacturer does not need an annealing device. This eliminates the need for annealing that takes 15 minutes per sheet, greatly reducing manufacturing costs.
- the spindle motor can be rotated at a constant angular velocity, and the pit information can also be reproduced with a power proportional to the radial position of the medium. As a result, it is possible to perform the processing without performing complicated control to keep the linear velocity constant.
- FIG. 15 is a flowchart of the processing (writing and updating) of annealing management information by magneto-optical recording.
- annealing management information is formed by pits, as will be described later, in the annealing area 40 of the medium 4, annealing is not recorded by pits.
- high-power light X-1 is applied to the pit part 4-1 of the annealing region 40 of medium 4.
- pit part 4 1 1 is deformed.
- the pit signal 4 1 4 is inverted from “0” to “1” by the deformation of the pit part 4 — 1 a.
- a magnetic field is applied during reproduction of the guide groove 4_1 at a high performance, and the magnetization of the guide groove 4-11 is changed. It is also possible to confirm the presence or absence of annealing by the direction. As described above, providing an annealing information management area and managing the presence / absence of annealing is strict and effective, but management is necessary.
- the presence or absence of the annealing process can be confirmed from the magneto-optical signal of the guide groove 41 during the next reproduction.
- the magneto-optical signal from the guide groove 41 is modulated by the pit signal, a single mark having a length longer than the pit signal, for example, 5 / tn, is recorded, and a component corresponding to the frequency is recorded. It is desirable to detect.
- Fig. 17 shows another flowchart for managing the user's voice processing, which is an example of using the fault management information in Fig. 6.
- the controller 15_1 acquires the annealing management information (FIG. 6) of the annealing management area 40 in this system area.
- Controller 1 5— 1 determines whether the entire surface of medium 4 has been annealed from the anneal management information.
- Controller 1 5—1 outputs a content playback confirmation request (all-surface annealing processing confirmation request) to the user when it is determined that the entire surface has not been swarmed, that is, there is an unfinished area. To do.
- the optical head 5 reproduces the content of the unannealed portion while performing the annealing process with high power.
- the annealed information is stored in the annealing area 40 (for example, For example, record “1 0” in Figure 6.
- step S 4 2 If it is determined in step S 3 4 that the entire surface has been annealed, or if it is processed in step S 40, recording / reproduction of the data section 42 can be performed at the high density as described above. . Recording and playback are performed as required by user operations.
- the size of the content information recorded in the pit section 4-1 that is a guide groove is preferably recorded on the entire surface of the medium 4 in order to reproduce without interruption during the annealing process.
- the first embodiment corresponds to this form.
- content equivalent to the entire area may not be prepared with a fixed clock frequency. In that case, it is possible to divide the content information into several sections, insert dummy data between the sections, and adjust the capacity of the pit information.
- FIG. 18 is a processing flow diagram of the second embodiment of the recording density changing method of the present invention
- FIG. 19 is an explanatory diagram of a content management table for FIG.
- four contents are provided, and each of them is explained as an example of unplayed.
- the annealing management area 40 in this system area includes the value discriminating value (anneal management information) of each content No. 1 to No. 4 and the contents of the content as shown in FIG. Stores the start and end sector addresses. Here, an example in which four contents are recorded on one medium 4 is shown. Controller 1 5 1 1 acquires this file management information.
- the controller 1 5— 1 outputs a content playback confirmation request (that is, a request for confirming the process of ⁇ ) to the user.
- a content playback confirmation request that is, a request for confirming the process of ⁇
- the media is not ejected and the media is ejected.
- the MO media 4 data Data can be recorded and reproduced at a low recording density.
- the recording density at the same level as the shortest mark length of the pit, which is about four times longer than the shortest mark length ML 0.17 ⁇ , which is a specific value of low recording density, is desirable. .
- the user can select the recording density according to the number of playback contents, and the user's annealing process can be divided and executed. For example, it is possible to realize a usage form in which annealing processing is performed for the required capacity (here, content), high-density playback 'recording is performed, and then further processing is performed on other content areas when capacity is required. .
- FIG. 20 is another processing flow diagram of the second embodiment of the recording density changing method of the present invention. Like FIG. 18, this is an example using the content management table of FIG. An example will be described in which each of them is unreproduced.
- the annealing management area 40 in this system area is similar to the example of FIG. 18, as shown in FIG. ) And the start sector address and end sector address of the content. Here, four contents are recorded on one medium 4 Indicates. Controller is—1 acquires this annealing management information.
- the controller 15-1 outputs a content playback confirmation request (that is, an annealing process confirmation request) to the user. If the user refuses to play the content, it is not annealed and the media is ejected. In this case, the data portion of the MO medium 4 can be recorded / reproduced at a low recording density.
- FIG. 1 is still another processing flow diagram of the second embodiment of the recording density changing method of the present invention
- FIG. 22 is a configuration diagram of the annealing management area of FIG.
- the wheel management area 40 in this system area stores the annealing discriminating values (anneal management information) of No. 1 to No. 6 5237 of each sector.
- annealing discriminating values anneal management information
- Controller 1 5—1 obtains this annealing management information.
- Controller 1 5—1 examines the annealing management information and determines whether there is an annealing sector.
- controller 1 5-1 determines that there is no unannealed sector, it outputs a content playback confirmation request to the user.
- the user selects that content playback is not required, all sectors are already annealed, and high-density recording / playback to the data section is performed. Then, the medium 4 is discharged.
- the content of the pit part 4 of the medium 4 is read with a low capacity (for example, the read path Pr), the content is played back, and the medium 4 is ejected. .
- step S 84 If it is determined in step S 84 that there is an unannealed sector, the controller 15-1 outputs a content playback confirmation (ie, an annealing process confirmation request) to the user.
- a content playback confirmation ie, an annealing process confirmation request
- step S 92 On the other hand, when the user accepts the content playback and selects the playback content, the controller 15-1 uses the optical head 5 to play back the content while processing the content area of the medium 4 with high power. To do. It is determined whether the annealing of all areas has been completed. If the annealing of all areas has not been completed, the process returns to step S88.
- annealing processing can be managed in units of sectors.
- the user can select the recording density according to the required number of sectors, and the user's annealing process can be divided and executed. The same applies when managing in block units.
- FIG. 23 is a configuration diagram of another arrangement example of the annealing management area of the present invention.
- the user area 42 of the medium 4 is divided into two, and a system area including the annealing management area 40 is provided between the two user areas 40. That is, the wheel management area 40 is not limited to the innermost circumference, but may be provided at a specific position between the user areas or the outermost circumference.
- FIG. 24 is a block diagram of a wobble pit applied to the present invention.
- the double pit is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11 1 3 2 8 6 78.
- the pre-pit portion is provided on the MO track of the MO disk 4 and the address management is performed, it is necessary to lower the optical power of the pre-pit portion when recording the land MO signal.
- the pit part 4 1 4 is made up of wobble tracks 4 1 1, that is, a wobbling (meandering) track structure is adopted, the address can be detected from the wobble signal obtained from the frequency of the fluctuation. For this reason, the pre-pit portion is unnecessary, and such complicated control is unnecessary.
- FIG. 25 is a process explanatory diagram of the first embodiment of the method of manufacturing the optical storage medium having annealing management information according to the present invention, and shows an example of magneto-optical recording of the annealing management information.
- a resist layer 100 2 is formed on the cleaned glass master 100 by spin coating.
- the resist layer 102 is uniformly formed with a thickness of 80 nm close to the depth of the pit. Also, resist 1 0 2 and glass master In order to improve the wettability with 100, it is desirable to apply a azo coupling agent on the glass master 100 before applying the resist.
- the organic solvent contained in the resist is volatilized. For example, heat at 90 ° C for about 1 hour.
- the glass master 100 on which the resist layer 102 is formed is exposed to form a pit shape while being precisely rotated by a spindle motor.
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- the exposed glass master 100 is developed with a sodium hydroxide solution having a predetermined concentration for a predetermined time, and a pit-shaped resist layer 102 is formed on the glass master 100.
- a thin conductive film is formed on the glass master 100 by an electroless plating method, and then a nickel plating having a thickness of about 300 ⁇ is applied by an electrolytic plating method to form the metal layer 104.
- the metal layer 104 is peeled off from the glass master 100, it is washed to remove the remaining resist, and then the back surface polishing process and the outer shape punching process are performed to form the metal stamper 106.
- a plastic substrate 4 mm is formed from polycarbonate.
- the molded substrate 4A is heated for about 1 hour in an oven at about 80 ° C to remove moisture.
- Substrate 4 A from which moisture has been sufficiently removed is inserted into a vacuum chamber, and then, by sputtering, dielectric layer 4 B, reproducing layer 4 C, switching layer 4D, recording layer 4E, dielectric layer 4F, A metal protective layer 4 G is formed.
- the medium 4 taken out from the vacuum chamber is coated with a protective layer 4H by spin coating.
- a protective layer 4H an ultraviolet curable resin is used for the protective layer 4 H.
- the thickness is about 10 m, and it is uniformly formed.
- the protective layer 4H is cured by irradiating ultraviolet rays, and the medium 4 is created.
- annealing management information is further recorded in the annealing management area 40 of the recording layer 4 E of the medium 4 by irradiation light through the magnetic head 35 and the objective lens 16.
- the anneal management information to be written is information indicating unannealed in FIG. Information, or information indicating unannealed and unrecorded in FIG.
- the annealing management area 40 has a case where low density recording is performed in a non-wired state and a case where annealing processing is performed and high density recording is performed.
- the media manufacturer records the annealing management information, and provides the media 4 to the market with the user area 42 not being available.
- the above-described pit shape is formed in accordance with the content information described above. As information of this content, sound, image, software, etc. are suitable.
- FIG. 26 is a process explanatory diagram of the second embodiment of the method for manufacturing an optical storage medium having annealing management information according to the present invention, and shows an example in which annealing management information is recorded in a pit string.
- a resist layer 100 2 is formed on the cleaned glass master 100 by spin coating.
- the resist layer 102 is uniformly formed with a thickness of 80 nm close to the depth of the pit.
- the organic solvent contained in the resist is volatilized. For example, heating is performed at 90 ° C for about 1 hour.
- the glass master disk 100 with the resist layer 102 formed thereon is exposed to form a pit shape while being precisely rotated by a spindle motor.
- the annealing management information is exposed to the region corresponding to the annealing management region 40 of the resist layer 102 by the irradiation light through the objective lens 16.
- the anneal management information to be exposed is the information indicating the unusable in FIG. 5, or the information indicating the unannealed and unrecorded in FIG.
- the exposed glass master 100 is developed with a predetermined concentration of sodium hydroxide solution for a predetermined time, and a pit-shaped resist layer 102 is formed on the glass master 100. .
- a thin conductive film is formed on this glass master 100 by an electroless plating method, and then a nickel plating having a thickness of about 300 / xm is applied by an electrolytic plating method to form a metal layer 104.
- the metal stamper 1 0 6 is created by cleaning, and then performing backside polishing and external punching.
- a plastic substrate 4 A made of polycarbonate is used as a raw material.
- the molded substrate 4 A is heated in an oven at about 80 ° C. for about 1 hour to remove moisture.
- Substrate 4 A from which moisture has been sufficiently removed is inserted into a vacuum chamber, and then, by sputtering, dielectric layer 4 B, reproducing layer 4 C, switching layer 4 D, recording layer 4 E, dielectric layer shown in FIG. 4 F and metal protective layer 4 G are formed.
- the medium 4 taken out from the vacuum chamber is coated with a protective layer 4H by spin coating.
- a protective layer 4H an ultraviolet curable resin is used for the protective layer 4 H.
- the thickness is about 10 m, and it is uniformly formed.
- the protective layer 4 H is cured by irradiating ultraviolet rays, and the medium 4 is created.
- the medium 4 on which the annealing management information is recorded in a pit is created.
- the user area 42 is unannealed and provided to the factory from the media manufacturer.
- the magneto-optical recording medium has been described as an optical storage medium.
- the present invention can also be applied to other optical storage media.
- a phase change medium is used as another optical storage medium will be described.
- FIG. 27 is a cross-sectional view of an optical storage medium according to another embodiment of the present invention, and shows a film configuration of a phase change medium.
- dielectric layer 4 I such as ZnS ⁇ Si0 2
- recording / reproducing layer 4 J consisting of GeSbTe
- dielectric layer 4 K such as ZnS-SiO 2
- the metal protective layer 4G of A 1 is generally formed by sputtering.
- an ultraviolet curable resin 4H is generally formed by a spin coating method and stabilized by irradiation with ultraviolet rays.
- Fig. 28 is a relationship diagram showing the relationship between the pits and phase change marks of the phase change medium in Fig. 27.
- Fig. 29 is an explanatory diagram of the light intensity when recording the phase change marks in Fig. 28. is there.
- the phase change mark 4 30 is the phase state (concatenation) of the recording / reproducing layer 4 J made of GeSbTe. Crystal or amorphous).
- the recording / reproducing layer 4 J can change phase between a crystalline state having a high reflectance and an amorphous state having a low reflectance, and a phase change mark 4 3 0 is formed by the change in the optical refractive index.
- the wheel area 4 1 8 is an area of the pit row 4-1 as in the example of FIG. As shown in Fig. 29, for the bias light power Pb that is almost similar to the read light power (read power), the high light power Pwa for creating the amorphous state and the light power Pwc for creating the crystalline state Set.
- the recording / reproducing layer 4J made of GeSbTe is irradiated with high power Pwa, the recording medium 4 is heated to a high temperature and then rapidly cooled to be in an amorphous state.
- the recording / reproducing layer 4 J is heated and then the medium 4 is cooled slowly, so that a crystalline state is formed. This difference forms (writes) phase change marks 4 30.
- the GeSbTe layer 4 J is damaged and its physical characteristics change. That is, by irradiating light 4 3 2 with light power P an to pits 4 1 and 4 as shown in FIG. 28, the GeSbTe layer 4 J in the track row portion formed by the pit rows 4-1 is altered. In addition, the spread of the mark 4 30 in the direction perpendicular to the track can be suppressed. In other words, the annealing process improves the recording / reproduction characteristics of the phase change mark 43 0 recorded between the pit rows 41.
- phase change mark 430 is read out by irradiating the read light with the light intensity Pb and reproducing the recording data by the phase change mark by the difference in reflectance described above.
- a land group media that does not form pits as shown in Fig. 31 can be used.
- the land portion 40 2 in FIG. 31 is annealed and the MO signal is recorded in the group portion 40 4.
- FIG. 30 is a flowchart of the recording density change processing according to the third embodiment of the present invention, and is an example using the annealing management information of FIG.
- Controller 15-1 acquires the annealing management information (FIG. 6) of annealing management area 40 in this system area.
- Controller 15-1 determines whether the entire surface of medium 4 has been annealed from the anneal management information.
- Controller 1 5—1 is not annealed on the entire surface, that is, if it is determined that there is an unannealed area, it is recorded in the user area 42 according to the annealing management information shown in FIG. Judge whether it is.
- step S 1 1 0 On the other hand, if the user area 4 2 is not recorded at all at a low density, the user is inquired about whether or not to completely anneal. If the user chooses not to anneal the entire surface, the process proceeds to step S 1 0 8 to record at a low density. On the other hand, if the user accepts that the entire surface will be annealed, the controller 15 5-1 processes the optical head 5 with high power. In this case, content playback is not performed because no content is formed by pits. When the annealing is completed for all areas, the annealed information (for example, “1 0 J” in FIG. 6) is recorded in the annealing management area 40.
- the annealed information for example, “1 0 J” in FIG. 6
- step S 1 1 2 If it is determined in step S 1 0 4 that the entire surface has been annealed, or if annealing is performed in step S 1 1 0, the recording / reproduction of the data section 4 2 at the high density as described above is performed. Is possible. Recording and playback are performed as required by user operations.
- annealing is performed on the entire medium. Select high-density recording or low-density recording depending on whether or not it was applied. Also, if recording has already been performed at a low density, annealing cannot be performed to protect user data, so recording and playback will be performed at a much lower density in the future.
- annealing when low-density recording is not performed, it is possible to select whether or not annealing is performed.
- recording can be reproduced as a high-density recording medium. If annealing is not selected, it can be used as a low-density recording medium. Even when used as a low-density recording medium, high-density recording / reproduction can be performed by reformatting the entire disk and annealing it.
- the annealing process is performed on the entire surface.
- the annealing process can be performed on a block basis or on a sector basis. However, considering practicality, management information is enormous for each sector, so it is desirable to divide it into several tens of blocks per disk.
- annealing information When annealing information is managed in units of blocks, it is possible to perform high density recording / reproduction and low density recording / reproduction for the annealed area and the unannealed area, respectively. At that time, if the usable area of one area becomes full, it moves to the other usable area and the recording density needs to be switched.
- the present invention has been described above by the embodiments, the present invention can be variously modified within the scope of the spirit of the present invention, and these are not excluded from the technical scope of the present invention.
- the size of the phase pit is not limited to the above-mentioned numerical values, and other sizes can be applied.
- Other magneto-optical recording materials can be applied to the magneto-optical recording film.
- the magneto-optical recording medium is not limited to a disk shape, and a card shape or the like can be adopted.
- the defect amount of the sector that performs recording / reproduction on the recording film based on the error rate of the reproduction information or the detected light component amplitude value including the reproduction information It is also possible to manage the defective sector based on the estimated amount of defects.
- the content information is formed by phase pits due to physical unevenness, and the phase pits meander to detect address information.
- the guide groove of the medium forms a concentric or spiral track and rotates to re-record information. Raw is done.
- the reproduction of the content information by light irradiation with high power can be performed under the condition that the linear velocity is constant in the track direction.
- the guide groove has a configuration in which concentric or spiral tracks are formed and information is recorded and reproduced by rotating.
- the content information is reproduced by irradiating the high-power light with a light power that is inversely proportional to the radial position while rotating at a constant rotational speed with respect to a specific radial position.
- This content information is automatically started when content information is reproduced while irradiating the high-power light onto the guide groove, and is output from an executable file so that audio information, image information, etc. can be output. It is configured.
- Annealing processing is recorded on the optical storage medium without providing annealing processing, and is provided to the user. Therefore, annealing processing is performed according to the user's selection, and high-density recording / playback is possible due to the annealing effect of the area between the recording tracks. To do. At that time, the initialization process (anneal process) in the recording medium can be omitted, so that the medium can be provided at low cost. In addition, because of the noise effect, it is not necessary to use a deep groove medium, which makes it easier to manufacture a substrate used for the medium. Furthermore, preferably, by recording advertisement information as content information in the pit portion, the content can be automatically reproduced during the annealing process, and the medium price can be supplemented with the advertising cost.
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