Recording/reproduction apparatus and recording/reproduction system
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsKazuhiro Hongo, Tetsu Watanabe
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Abstract
A recording/reproduction apparatus includes: a light source; and a near-field light production section that includes two conductor sections disposed opposite each other with a predetermined gap therebetween and that produces near-field light between the two conductor sections upon light irradiation from the light source, the two conductor sections being disposed such that when information is recorded on a recording medium using the near-field light, a direction from one of the two conductor sections to the other of the two conductor sections is generally perpendicular to a line direction of the recording medium.
Claims12
A recording/reproduction apparatus comprising:
- a light source;
- and
- a near-field light production section that includes two conductor sections disposed opposite each other with a predetermined gap therebetween and that produces near-field light between the two conductor sections upon light irradiation from the light source, the two conductor sections being disposed such that, when information is recorded on a recording medium using the near-field light, an imaginary line passing through a point of each conductor section that is respectively closest to the other conductor section is perpendicular to a track direction of the recording medium.
A recording/reproduction system comprising:
- a recording medium;
- a light source;
- and
- a near-field light production section that includes two conductor sections disposed opposite each other with a predetermined gap therebetween and that produces near-field light between the two conductor sections upon light irradiation from the light source, the two conductor sections being disposed such that, when information is recorded on the recording medium using the near-field light, an imaginary line passing through a point of each conductor section that is respectively closest to the other conductor section is perpendicular to a track direction of the recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.