Multispeed rewritable optical-recording method with an initialization-free phase-change disk

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1140-1146

  Miao, Xiang ^a   Shi, Lu Ping ^a   Tan, Pik Kee ^a   Li, Jian Ming ^a   Lim, Kian Guan ^a   Hu, Xiang ^a   Chong, Tow Chong ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIDEODISKS;

FREE DISK SPACES; LINEAR VELOCITIES;

OPTICAL RECORDING;

EID: 1442356065     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001140     Document Type: Article

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