System comprising an optical disc and an apparatus for reading of respective data
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsStephan Knappmann, Michael Krause, Stefan Kimmelmann
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AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsStephan Knappmann, Michael Krause, Stefan Kimmelmann
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The optical disc comprises a substrate layer and a data layer disposed on the substrate layer, the data layer having a mark/space data structure arranged in tracks which are arranged in groups being separated each by a land section. The tracks of the groups are each arranged as a spiral, and the start of a track of a consecutive group begins at a position corresponding with the end of a track of a preceding group. A group comprises advantageously an inner track, a center track and an outer track. The optical disc comprises in a preferred embodiment a nonlinear layer with a super-resolution structure and the track pitch between neighboring tracks within a group is below the diffraction limit of a corresponding pickup for reading of data. Further, a tracking method is described which does not rely on tracking offsets to detect the inner and outer tracks of a group.
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System comprising an optical disc and an apparatus including a pickup with a laser, a detector unit and an objective lens for reading data from the optical disc,
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