Effect of fly height and refractive index on the transmission efficiency of near-field optical transducers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Şendur, Kürşat ^a   Jones, Paul ^b  

^a Advanced MicroSensors   (United States)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAD-MEDIUM INTERFACE; HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING; NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL TRANSDUCERS; OPTICAL SPOT; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY;

COERCIVE FORCE; DIFFRACTION; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33644691241     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2180440     Document Type: Article

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