Materials and design issues of multilayer magneto-optical thin-film media for optical recording

Bala Subramanian

doi:10.1117/12.60018

1 December 1992 Materials and design issues of multilayer magneto-optical thin-film media for optical recording

Bala Subramanian

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 31, Issue 12, (December 1992). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.60018

Abstract

The principles of magneto-optical (MO) recording and readout are reviewed and issues of thin film media design for MO disks are discussed. Essential criteria for improved media performance, and in particular, concepts of magneto-optical interactions in relation to multilayer designs for enhancing the polarization rotation in erasable magnetooptical media are considered. Examples of media design for improved performance are given. The role of sharp reflection edges such as those occurring near plasma edge resonances in metals is discussed. It is shown that rare earth hexaboride (RB₆) reflector layers increase the polar Kerr rotation angle of MO media. Iso-Kerr rotation contours and iso-reflectance contours are developed to determine optimizing material properties for MO media design.

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Bala Subramanian "Materials and design issues of multilayer magneto-optical thin-film media for optical recording," Optical Engineering 31(12), (1 December 1992). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.60018

Published: 1 December 1992

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