Optical design challenges of thermally assisted magnetic recording heads

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 744-750

  Takano, Kenichi ^a   Jin, Eric ^a   Maletzky, Tobias ^a   Schreck, Erhard ^a   Dovek, Moris ^a  

^a Headway Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Index Terms Magnetic heads; Optical waveguides; Plasmons; Thermally assisted magnetic recording

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETISM; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; RECORDING INSTRUMENTS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DESIGN CHALLENGES; INDEX TERMS; MAGNETIC TRANSITIONS; OPTICAL BEAM PROPAGATION; OPTIMIZED DESIGNS; THERMALLY ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDINGS; THROUGHPUT EFFICIENCY; TRANSITION CURVATURE;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 78651442950     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2035093     Document Type: Article

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