New Wobble-Address Format for an Optical Disc with a Separated Guide Layer

Abstract

We propose a physical address format suitable for the separated guide layer of a multilayered optical disc. Since the track format of the guide layer is different from that of conventional multilayered discs, a novel address format is required. The proposed format adopts a land-and-groove-track structure to generate a stable tracking signal. The address information for land and groove tracks is physically premastered by the wobbling and width-modulating of grooves. We fabricated a replicated disc sample with the proposed format and demonstrated a sufficiently low bit error rate by an experiment. Consequently, we considered that the format is a promising solution for the physical format for multilayered discs with a separated guide layer.