Scattering measurements on optical disks and their relation to media noise

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 26, 2001, Pages 4728-4737

  Xun, Xiaodong ^a   Peng, Chubing ^a   Saito, Kimihiro ^b   Mansuripur, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; LIGHT SCATTERING; POLYCARBONATES; SOLID STATE LASERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUBSTRATES;

MEDIA NOISE;

OPTICAL DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0006068279     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004728     Document Type: Article

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