A recording head has a waveguide core layer that delivers light from a light source to a region proximate a magnetic write pole. A near-field transducer is formed of a thin film of Rh or Ir deposited over the waveguide core layer. The near-field transducer includes an enlarged part with two straight edges facing a media-facing surface and at obtuse angles relative to the media-facing surface. A peg extends from the enlarged part towards the media-facing surface. The waveguide core layer has a terminating end with terminating edges that align with the two straight edges of the near-field transducer.

A VCM (voice coil motor) is disclosed, the VCM including: a rotor including a cylindrical bobbin for accommodating a lens and protruded at a bottom end with a boss, and a coil block arranged at a periphery of the bobbin; a stator including a magnet facing the coil block and a yoke fixing the magnet; and an elastic member including a first elastic member formed with a through hole coupled to the boss of the bobbin and a second elastic member coupled to an upper end facing the bottom end of the bobbin; wherein the boss is formed with a disengagement prevention unit preventing the first elastic member from being disengaged from the boss, and the first elastic member is formed with a coupling unit contacting a joint where the disengagement prevention unit and the coupling unit meet.

Adaptive communications focal plane arrays that may be implemented in, e.g., a specially-configured camera that can be utilized to receive and/or process information in the form of optical beams are presented. A specialized focal plane array (FPA) having a plurality of optical detectors is utilized, where one or more optical detectors are suppressed such that data is not allowed to be output from the one or more suppressed optical detectors, and only a significantly smaller number or subset of optical detectors receiving optical beams are allowed to output data. In this way, the rate at which data is to be output by an adaptive communications FPA (ACFPA) can be significantly reduced.

There is provided a recording adjustment device, a recording adjustment method, and a program of which enables recording compensation for an optical disc for a high-linear density to be realized. The recording adjustment device according to an embodiment of the present technique executes filter processing on the basis of a regenerative signal obtained by reproducing data recorded in a recording medium, and a recording pattern of marks and spaces of the data, identifies an impulse response of a system, calculates a difference in amplitude between an output from the filter processing after the identification of the impulse response and the regenerative signal every edge type, and detects a slope of a step response in the vicinity of an edge position.

On each of a plurality of recording layers of a write-once optical disc, two tracks constituted of adjacent land and groove are formed in a spiral shape. A writing method of data includes: a step of receiving data and a writing instruction of the data; and a step of recording management information, wherein the management information includes: virtual sequential recording range information that manages a last recorded address of the data as a virtual physical sector number; defect list that indicates a replacement correspondence relationship between the virtual physical sector number and an actually recorded physical sector number; and real next writable address information that indicates a real next writable address that is actually recordable subsequently to the physical sector number.

A tape drive system for ensuring tape data integrity by tape surface inspection, the tape drive system being configured for reading and writing data from/to a magnetic tape, is provided. The tape drive system includes a laser inspection unit comprising a sender and a receiver integrated into the tape drive system, wherein the laser inspection unit configured for recognizing a tape defect by scanning the magnetic tape when the tape drive system is in operation. The tape drive system includes a read/write head configured for acting together with the laser inspection unit as sensors for providing sensor data during a read/write operation of the tape drive system, a communication link between the sensors and a controller unit for exchanging sensor data. The controller is configured for evaluating sensor data and for triggering predefined actions based on the respective evaluation results such that the tape data integrity is ensured.

There is provided an optical recording medium substrate including a polycarbonate in which an average molecular weight is in a range from 15000 to 16000, and mass per unit volume at 25? C. is in a range from 1.1930 g/cm.sup.3 to 1.2000 g/cm.sup.3.

A VCM (voice coil motor) is disclosed, the VCM including: a rotor including a cylindrical bobbin for accommodating a lens and protruded at a bottom end with a boss, and a coil block arranged at a periphery of the bobbin; a stator including a magnet facing the coil block and a yoke fixing the magnet; and an elastic member including a first elastic member formed with a through hole coupled to the boss of the bobbin and a second elastic member coupled to an upper end facing the bottom end of the bobbin; wherein the boss is formed with a disengagement prevention unit preventing the first elastic member from being disengaged from the boss, and the first elastic member is formed with a coupling unit contacting a joint where the disengagement prevention unit and the coupling unit meet.

An example system may include a first vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) that includes a first integrated polarization locking structure to produce a polarized optical data signal. The system may also comprise a second VCSEL that includes a second integrated polarization locking structure, the second integrated polarization locking structure orthogonal to the first integrated polarization locking structure, to produce an orthogonally polarized optical data signal. Lenses may be disposed on the substrate opposite the first VCSEL, to collimate the polarized optical data signal, and opposite the second VCSEL to collimate the orthogonally polarized optical data signal. A polarization division multiplexer may combine the first collimated polarized optical data signal and the second collimated orthogonally polarized optical data signal.

A recording medium recording a magnetic material simulation program includes: acquiring a shape model including element regions of a shape of a core, property information indicating physical properties of a magnetic material of the core, and coil current information indicating a time change in a current through a coil around the core; specifying a first current density of the coil at a first time, based on the coil current information; computing, using the property information and the first current density, first index values at the first time for positions in the shape model; computing, using the first index values, a charge density of each element region; specifying a second current density of the coil at a second time, based on the coil current information; and computing, using the property information, the second current density, and the charge density, second index values at the second time for the positions.