Phase-Transition Mastering of High-Density Optical Media

Abstract

A new phase-transition mastering (PTM) process was developed for Blu-ray Disc read-only memory (BD-ROM) mastering. Results obtained with both a 266 and 405 nm laser beam recorder (LBR) are discussed in this paper. The feasibility of BD-ROM mastering was successfully demonstrated on both LBRs. With the insight that 25 Gbytes BD-ROM can be mastered with a 405 nm wavelength LBR, the availability of the 266 nm wavelength LBR opened the route to explore PTM of near-field data densities. First experiments indicate that the PTM process is also suitable for mastering data densities beyond 25 Gbytes data density.