Information Storage Materials, 2. Optical Recording

Abstract

The article contains sections titled: 1. General Introduction 1.1. Optical Storage Media 1.2. The Optical Channel 1.2.1. Focusing and Tracking (Servo Control) 1.2.2. Data Channel 1.3. Compact Disc Family 1.3.1. Read‐Only, Replicated Discs 1.3.2. Recordable and Rewritable Discs 1.4. Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) 1.5. HD‐DVD and Blue Laser Discs 1.6. Magneto‐Optical Storage 1.7. Future Developments 1.7.1. Evolutionary Progress in Optical Disc Storage 1.7.2. Three‐Dimensional Optical Storage 2. Optical Disc Mastering and Stamper Production 2.1. General 2.2. Requirements 2.3. Mastering Methods 2.4. Electroforming of Stampers 3. Read‐Only Optical Recording Materials 3.1. Production Processes 3.2. Material Specifications 3.3. Molding Processes 3.4. Photoreplication Process 3.5. Metallization 3.6. Protective Coating 3.7. Nonstandard Processes 4. Write‐Once Optical Recording Materials 4.1. Material Specifications 4.2. Deposition Techniques 4.3. Tellurium Alloys 4.4. Organic Dyes 4.5. Metal Particle Colloids 4.6. Metal‐Polymer Bilayers 4.7. Alloying Bilayers 4.8. Agglomeration 4.9. Surface Texture 5. Reversible Optical Recording Materials 5.1. Magneto‐Optic Materials 5.2. Phase‐Change Recording Media 5.3. Liquid Crystals 5.4. Photochromics 5.5. Photochemical Hole Burning 6. Economic Aspects of Optical Recording 6.1. Consumer Electronics (CE) 6.2. Data Applications

Fine Structure in Electronic Spectra of Cyanine Dyes: Are Sub‐Bands Largely Determined by a Dominant Vibration or a Collection of Singly Excited Vibrations?

“…The commercial introduction of high power laser diodes in the middle of the 1980s opened the door to numerous new technical applications of cyanine dyes. Among their number were fluorescent probes for biomedical imaging, laser radiation absorbing dyes in CD‐R and DVD/R, and sensitisers in computer‐to‐plate (CtP) lithographic printing plates …”