A method for recording/reproducing information on a write-once optical recording medium, which comprises a substrate and a thin film made of chemisorptive molecules fixed by covalent bonds directly or through a primer layer to one or both sides of the substrate, wherein optical information can be recorded in the thin film by irradiating light to degrade the molecules at the irradiated portions, comprising:
- a recording step of recording information by irradiating recording light on the optical recording film to degrade the irradiated portions into degraded portions, and by combining the degraded portions and non-degraded portions;
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- a reproduction step of reproducing information by irradiating reproduction light on the degraded portions and the non-degraded portions and detecting a difference in the optical intensity after the light has reached the degraded portions and the non-degraded portions.