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High Speed Flexible Optical Disk with Cylindrically Concaved Stabilizer

Yasutomo Aman, Nobuaki Onagi, Shozo Murata, Yasunori Sugimoto, Daiichi Koide¹, and Haruki Tokumaru¹

(Received November 17, 2006; accepted January 23, 2007; published online June 22, 2007)

We developed a brand-new stabilizer with a cylindrically concaved active surface for a flexible optical disk system. The unique design enabled extremely stable driving of the flexible disk at rotational speeds over 10,000 rpm. We actually demonstrated the driving at rotational speeds of up to 15,000 rpm, the spindle motor limit of our optical disk tester. This highest rotational speed promises a maximum data transfer rate of more than 600 Mbps for the recording density of a Blu-ray Disc. This stable state was achieved using a simple control that just adjusts the relative axial position of the stabilizer against the flexible disk. Once the adjustment was made, high stability was maintained over a wide rotational speed, ranging from 4,000 to 15,000 rpm. In this stable state, the axial runout on the pickup scanning line was suppressed to less than 10 µm at all rotational speeds. By achieving this high performance with simplified stabilizer control, we have come close to putting our system into practical use.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/46/3750/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.46.3750

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