Light delivery system for heat-assisted magnetic recording

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5016-5021

  Hirata, Masakazu ^a   Tanabe, Sachiko ^a   Oumi, Manabu ^a   Park, Majung ^a   Chiba, Norio ^a   Gonzaga, Leonard V ^b   Yu, Shengkai ^b   Zhang, Mingsheng ^b   Tjiptoharsono, Febiana ^b  

^a SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC   (Japan)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR); Light delivery; Near field transducer; Spot size converter

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETISM; OPTICAL FIBERS; TRANSDUCERS;

FABRICATION PROCESS; HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING; LIGHT DELIVERY; LIGHT DELIVERY SYSTEMS; NEAR-FIELD TRANSDUCERS; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; SPOT SIZE CONVERTERS; SPOT-SIZE CONVERTER;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 70449448783     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2029427     Document Type: Article

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