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US 2002/0166043 A1Published application
Formatting optical disks
AssigneeXenon Corporation
InventorRichard C. Panico
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Abstract
An optical disk is initialized using a flash lamp with a short duration pulse and/or at close distance.
Claims10
A method for initializing an optical disk including directing to the disk a pulse from a flash lamp with a duration of less than 1,000 microseconds.
A method for initializing an optical disk including directing a pulse from a flash lamp spaced from the optical disk by 1 inch or less.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.