Pub Date : 1994-09-01DOI: 10.1109/TJMJ.1994.4565936
M. Ogawa;M. Kubogata;O. Okada
Mark formation mechanisms and R/W characteristics of two kinds of exchange-coupled magneto-optical disks, consisting of a read layer and a write layer, were investigated using an RAY tester and a polarizing microscope. In one of the disks (a regular-mode disk), marks recorded in the read layer were transcribed to the write layer; the opposite was the case in the other disk (an inverse-mode disk). In the case of the regular-mode disks, the characteristics of the carrier levels in relation to the writing power showed two stages, corresponding to ring domains and full domains. The ring domains appeared when the write power was low, and were caused by the static magnetic field near the T c