Magneto-optical memory and method of producing such a memory

A magneto-optical memory having a substrate of a material which is transparent for the visible to infrared spectral range and on which, there are provided in the following sequence, an elastic dielectric layer which is transparent at the visible-to-infrared spectral range and has a refractive index which is higher than the refractive index of the substrate and which at a wavelength of 800 nm is 1.9-2.5, has an absorption coefficient K<0.05 and constitutes a diffusion barrier layer for oxygen and/or water, and is deposited on the substrate from organic silicons by a PCVD (plasma-activated chemical vapor deposition) process, an essentially amorphous and/or micro-crystalline magneto-optical layer with uniaxial anisotropy and a magnetic ordering temperature>ambient temperature and a top layer acting as a reflection or interference layer and as a diffusion barrier layer for oxygen and/or water.