Au-SiO2 nanocomposite thin film is fabricated reproducibly by co-sputtering method with the size of Au nano particles around 2 to 10 nm. TEM images display the irregular shape Au nanoparticles are embedded in SiO2 thin film with random distribution. A surface plasmon absorption peak of Au nanoparticles is found in absorption spectra. The nonlinear optical properties are measured by confocal Z-scan method with a sub-nanosecond pulse laser (λ=532nm, pulse width 0.71ns, repetition rate 15.79kHz) and high-numerical-aperture objective lens (NA=0.55). Results of the Z-scan show nonlinear optical properties and enhanced transmittance at the focusing position of nanocomposite Au-SiO2 films. The transmittance can be more than 135% for a 15-nm-thick Au-SiO2 nanocomposite thin film with an average grain size of around 5 nm.
New Ga doped GeSb based phase-change materials are investigated. These materials possess good optical contrast at short wavelengths. Crystallization temperature increasing and grain size refinement are obtained by addition of Ga. More than 50 dB CNR and 25 dB erasability are measured in disks using blue laser.
A new structure of super resolution optical disk with organic dye for recording layer was proposed. By utilizing of Sb thin film for the mask layer, below-diffraction-limited marks on organic recording layer could be recorded and retrieved. The mark size as small as 120nm could be read out on the current dynamic tester of digital versatile recordable disc (DVD-R). The conditions of optical pickup head are 635nm of laser wavelength (l) and 0.6 of lens numerical aperture (NA). The carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) from recorded marks of 200nm was more than 28.5dB at low readout power of 2mW and at a constant linear velocity (CLV) equals 3.5 m/s. The recording layer with modified composition owned high thermal stability and the readout durability was more than 6 X 104 cycles without any decreasing of CNR.
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