Air-bearing design and flying characteristics of flexible optical head slider combined with visible laser light guide

Microsystem Technologies

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 155-160

  Hirota, T ^a   Ohkubo, T ^a   Itao, K ^a   Yoshikawa, H ^b   Ando, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DEFORMATION; DIFFRACTION; FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RECORDING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RESONANCE;

DIGITAL VERSATILE DISKS (DVD);

OPTICAL DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0036575484     PISSN: 09467076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00542-002-0181-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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