Polarization dependence of thermal behavior in rewritable phase-change optical recording media

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 379-387

  Peng, Chubing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

PHASE-CHANGE OPTICAL RECORDING;

LASER RECORDING;

EID: 0036300957     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.000379     Document Type: Article

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