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High-Density Recording on Air-Stabilized Flexible Optical Disk

Nobuaki Onagi, Yasutomo Aman, Shozo Murata and Keisuke Uchida¹

(Received December 5, 2003; accepted January 26, 2004; published July 29, 2004)

We have developed an optical disk system constructed from a flexible disk and an air stabilizer. The key feature of the system is an extremely small axial runout that has been reduced by 5 microns as a result of the aerodynamic effect of the stabilizer. We experimentally demonstrated that the system can achieve an axial runout of less than 5 microns and enables a recording signal at a density of 0.13 µm/bit.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/43/5009/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.43.5009

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